All right, The Lifting Fix here, we got Ben and Ellis McLean and their whole team is out here on tour and they stopped by and learned a little bit about deadlift, all right? So common mistake, Ben's gonna talk about it, he's gonna kind of talk us through the correct way to do it, all right? - Sure. What we wanna look at is how people tend to either pick up things from the ground and how it carries over to how they address the ball.
are to deadlift. So what I just want to see is I would have no person pick that up off the ground. So they bend traditionally at the spine to grab it. So they have no spinal stability.
This is often how we see people tend to address the bar at the dentist when they set up. The first thing they do is they get close to the bar. Which conventional is actually not? Let's do conventional because this one's common.
And the first thing they do-- is exactly. They bend over and they lose any spinal integrity they had in a stable position to grab it. Now they go from unstable to trying to find a stable position at the bottom of the lift. One of the hardest things to do.
So let's show how we can pick up things better from the ground and also deadlift things better from the ground. So I'll step in front again. So, same thing with instructions. What we want to do is first we're going to brace our upper spine by using our lats and our pec minor.
So we're going to do an arm adduction which is similar to either a straight arm pull down. which people have done in the gym and it's a common movement so you can actually feel your lat engage and actually depress your scapula or we can do an arm adduction which I'm just going to resist and he's going to bring his arms closer to his body. And then from there we're going to internally rotate and it's going to contract our pec minor. Now I want to make sure that people know this came from Dr.
Sue McGill, give credit where it's due. And then we're going to brace our abdominals like he's bracing for a punch in the stomach. So now, there's no way he can get down to the ground to pick this up and lose tension in his, or lose the integrity of his spine. So he has to maintain neutral.
So we're going to utilize these cues to address the bar in a demo. And actually, from the side, it's probably the best way to see it. So again, he's going to set his lats first, this stabilizes his thoracic spine. He's going to lock in with his pec minor and now he's going to brace his abdominal to actually, abdominals to lock in his lumbar spine.
Now he's going to retain a neutral position. grab the bar and now he's going to drive and push the floor away. The full time now, he cannot transfer force to the bar.
