The deadlift is unrivaled in its simplicity and impact while unique in its capacity for increasing head to toe strength.
Regardless of whether your fitness goals are to "rev up" your metabolism, increase strength or lean body mass, decrease body fat, rehabilitate your back, improve athletic performance, or maintain functional independence as a senior, the deadlift is a marked shortcut to that end.
To the detriment of millions, the deadlift is infrequently used and seldom seen either by most of the exercising public and/or, believe it or not, by athletes.
It might be that the deadlift' name has scared away the masses; its older name, "the healthlift," was a better choice for this perfect movement.
In its most advanced application the deadlift is prerequisite to, and a component of, "the world’s fastest lift," the snatch, and "the world’s most powerful lift," the clean; but it is also, quite simply, no more than the safe and sound approach by which any object should be lifted from the ground.
The deadlift, being no more than picking a thing off the ground, keeps company with standing, running, jumping, and throwing for functionality but imparts quick and prominent athletic advantage like no other exercise.
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Lorie is shown here in the proper starting position with her arms straight, shoulders slightly in front of the bar, and her back set in a proper lumbar curve. Her shoulders could be back at bit more and her head could be more in line with her body, but otherwise she's ready to pull without injuring her lower back. This position is safe regardless of load. Even if we had loaded the bar with 1,000 lbs, as long as she's in the proper starting position and does not lose the lumber curve when she pulls, the only thing that will happen with a post-maximal load is that the weight will stay on the floor!
