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Deadlifts

Incorporating deadlifts into your routine will help you work the glutes and balance out the lower half of your body. It's also more effective than a regular squat because it simultaneously engages your arms and upper body.

  • Stand holding a pair of medium-weight dumbbells in each hand, arms at your sides, with your knees slightly bent.
  • Keeping your arms straight and your knees slightly bent, slowly bend at your hip joint, not your waist, and lower the weights as far as possible without rounding your back, which should remain straight. Looking forward, not at the ground, will help you avoid rounding your back. Keep the weights close to, almost touching, your legs.
  • Squeeze your glutes to slowly pull yourself up. Be sure not to use your back or round your spine!
  • Do three sets of 12 reps.
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