Cable Deadlifts

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Cable Deadlifts — start position
Start
Cable Deadlifts — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryQuads
SecondaryForearms, Glutes, Hamstrings, Lower back

How to do it

  1. 01

    Move the cables to the bottom of the towers and select an appropriate weight. Stand directly in between the uprights.

  2. 02

    To begin, squat down be flexing your hips and knees until you can reach the handles.

  3. 03

    After grasping them, begin your ascent. Driving through your heels extend your hips and knees keeping your hands hanging at your side. Keep your head and chest up throughout the movement.

  4. 04

    After reaching a full standing position, Return to the starting position and repeat.

In the app

Cable Deadlifts appears when you own a cable stack and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have a cable stack

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With barbell
With machine

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