![]() ![]() Brace your core, press your feet into the ground and take a deep breath in through your diaphragm to prepare.Your hips should be lower than your shoulders, and your gaze on the ground about two feet in front of the bar. Grip the bar with an overhand grip (palms facing the floor). Keep your spine long and shoulders long as you push your hips back and down.Stand with feet hip-width apart with the barbell on the floor near your shins, toes under the bar.First, check that the weight plates are secured with barbell collars or clamps.Here’s how to do a deadlift with a barbell: Whatever equipment you choose, you’ll want to first learn how to do a deadlift using bodyweight and light weights before graduating to heavy ones. However, you can use kettlebells, dumbbells or a resistance band. Deadlifts are often performed with a barbell and weight plates. When you pick up a heavy object, your back muscles have to work overtime to stabilize your shoulders and trunk so your legs can transmit power through the object, Kelley said. However, if you’re new to these types of movements, be sure to work with a personal trainer or related expert to learn proper technique and starter moves to gear up for these more complex exercises. Think deadlifts, cleans, snatches and jerks. The best way to train your back muscles is through compound (multi-joint) lifts that involve picking up heavy weights. They’ll activate during shoulder exercises like straight-arm pulldowns and shrugs, and activities like rowing and swimming, she said. Their primary function is to rotate the shoulder blades (scapulae) downward, “an action that opposes the lower traps, which rotate it upward,” Novak said. These muscles sit along opposite sides of the neck. However, you can also target them by balancing on an unstable surface (such as a Bosu ball), Novak said. Because intrinsics help in most movements, you’ll work them any time you do functional movements like deadlifts and rows. Secondarily, intrinsics help the spine to extend, flex, rotate and resist movement, he said. These intrinsics are primarily responsible for stabilizing the spine when sitting or standing still and whenever you move a limb, Kelley said. They include the splenius capitis, interspinales, intertransversarii, spinal erectors, semispinalis, multifidi and rotatores. Muscles that sit a bit deeper and support your spine are collectively known as intrinsic back muscles. The rhomboids also kick in during exercises like a reverse fly and face pull (this involves pulling weight toward your forehead with a suspension trainer, resistance band, or cable pulley while keeping your elbows high). These muscles pull the shoulder blades toward your midline, as when doing a bent-over row, Novak said. They sit beneath the traps and run from the spine to the edge of the shoulder blade. The rhomboids are two separate muscles in the upper back: the rhomboid major and the rhomboid minor. You’ll work these muscles when you perform rows, pull-ups, shrugs and lat pull-downs. The traps allow you to lift and rotate your head, bring your shoulder blades in and down when maintaining upright posture, and twist your torso, noted the Cleveland Clinic. They start at the base of your neck, extend across your shoulders, and run down to the middle of your back. The trapezius, or “traps,” are another pair of triangle-shaped muscles in your back. As such, the lats are heavily involved in exercises like pull-ups and lat pull-downs, and activities like rowing and swimming. Their main function is to internally rotate, extend and bring the arm toward the midline of the body (also known as adduction), said Jennifer Novak, M.S., C.S.C.S., owner of PEAK Symmetry Performance Strategies in Atlanta, Ga. They span from the upper arm (humerus) down to the pelvis and across the ribs. More commonly referred to as “the lats,” these two triangle-shaped muscles take up most of the real estate in your back. They also help to move your arms and trunk in different directions. and owner of Aries Physical Therapy in South Florida. Essentially, they hold you up against the forces of gravity, said William Kelley, D.P.T., A.T.C., C.S.C.S. These muscles are always “on” to stabilize your spine. The muscles in your back are a group of postural muscles in the body. ![]()
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