Clean Deadlift

HamstringsBarbellBeginnerCompound
Clean Deadlift — start position
Start
Clean Deadlift — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryHamstrings
SecondaryForearms, Glutes, Lower back, Mid back, Quads, Traps

How to do it

  1. 01

    Begin standing with a barbell close to your shins. Your feet should be directly under your hips with your feet turned out slightly. Grip the bar with a double overhand grip or hook grip, about shoulder width apart. Squat down to the bar. Your spine should be in full extension, with a back angle that places your shoulders in front of the bar and your back as vertical as possible.

  2. 02

    Begin by driving through the floor through the front of your heels. As the bar travels upward, maintain a constant back angle. Flare your knees out to the side to help keep them out of the bar's path.

  3. 03

    After the bar crosses the knees, complete the lift by driving the hips into the bar until your hips and knees are extended.

In the app

Clean Deadlift appears when you own a barbell 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 barbell

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

With barbell
With kettlebell
With bands

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