How to Do Dead Lifts for the Back

Video Transcript

"Hi I am Kyle Brayer and your first exercise for your in-home back workout will be the dead lift. This is where you do your dead lifts for your ham strings. It is a similar movement except you are going to do this exercise for your lower back and up through your core. You are going to reach down and grab your dumb bells. I have selected about 15 pounds. You can pick a weight and you can start out with about 15 repetitions and feel how heavy you are going to go. When you do a dead lift for your ham strings you keep your legs straight. That allows you to put tension all the way down your ham string when you are working forward. Since we are working the lower back we are going to actually put a bend in the knees. So you are going to start down in the low position with a bend in your knees and then as you come up you want to look forward roll your shoulders back and then as you come up roll your hips forward and then back down bending the knees, looking forward, keeping that chest nice and high and then back and continue. You are going to inhale on the way down and exhale on the way up. This nice pinch when you roll your shoulders back and roll your hips forward gives you the extra work on the lower back. Come down and back up. I will do that facing the front so you can see it. Down and back up. Again I am making sure that my knees do not come over my toes and that is a bent leg dead lift. "