Single Leg Deadlifts Are CRAZY HARD!

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[williamhendrix]

this is one of the best hip rehab exercises for me

[brunolovivo]

To get the balance needed just start putting on your shoes standing up upright

[billbailey]

You’re awesome! Providing extremely high quality videos for us strength coaches and people in general 🙏

[RandyLeftHandy]

I'm definitely adding this into my program

[jaysingh]

I just started doing these today and this popped up. My man’s a legend

[kathyg]

THANK YOU so much for showing the progressions to work on!! I’m gonna show the trainers at my gym! I can’t be the only one who finds these so hard!

[Bizeecentral]

Creating that thoracic stiffness is also very helpful to create a stable chain in the upper body, flex the lats hard! This makes it so your upper body is rigid and feels more compact so you can focus on using your core and lower body as your upper body goes down even if you lift a leg in the air.

If you straighten the leg out thats gonna be bent behind you and squeeze that glute, then the lats, you’ll make it an even stronger movement as well

[Yupppi]

Single leg RDL was a great lower back and side/lower ab exercise for me. Although I thought you're supposed to have the weight in the other hand.

[yoshi]

You showed us the real sl deadlift instead of the single rdl. Great, I love this exersize. Such a good alternative for home workouts, when you don't have so much weights. 👍

[NOCOMP]

Man they were tough. You helped a lot. Thanks champ !

[Masiyooo]

feels funny seeing this now cuz I really fucked my back 3 weeks ago with a single leg deadlift.

I had been doing them with a single kettlebell for a while, with relatively low weight, no problems. then one day, I figured "eh, might as well use this barbell while I'm here" and loaded far too much weight for what I was used to, biggest mistake of my gymlife.

[davidballard]

I skip dead lifts and just do a lot of single leg RDL

[ChasmChaos]

Looks like the same movement mechanics as the golfers lift but with weights. I've been doing the golfer's lift everytime I need to pick something up off the ground, ever since I injured my lower back.

[haraffael]

I do physical therapy since I hurt my knee (discrete meniscus tear, 5cm long baker cyst in the knee along the semitendinosus muscle).
This exercise revealed why I had the issue, it was Gluteus Medius not feeling responsible for leg stabilisation.

[fruitytarian]

I need to add this, great progression.

[friendlyneighborhoodspider]

Was doing this at the gym per my plan. Had no idea i could take it in steps but i had good fitness and good balance. I was smashing it out pretty quickly with great form. Saw two people staring which had me confused.

[Andrea-vreq]

Just watched a video where they said that you must have the weight on the side of your floating leg as otherwise you open up your chest to the side too much, which happens also slightly in this video. Opposite side makes more sense for balance.

[sethfarrell]

I do these with light weight for 10-15. They kill my hamstring more than the glute. I think the lighter weight doesn't activate the glute as much leaving all the work for the hammie. I also find this is true for light KB swings for high reps.

[gronaldinho]

Does it matter which arm you use to hold the weight?

[Pinkclique]

Ive been struggling to do these on my right leg for some reason, Ill try these tips out