How to Keep Your Back From Rounding When Deadlifting

When the back moves excessively when deadlifting you’re “leaking energy“ and hindering optimal performance. For some it can also long term increase risk of injury. Today you’ll learn a few tips to keep your back from rounding during the deadlift. 0:41 Create the ’Trust Fall’ Balance (cue from Chris Bridgeford) 1:24 Squat the Start (cue from Martins Licis) 2:32 Full Body Tension (cue from Ed Coan) 3:28 Take the Slack out of the Bar 4:29 Don’t Fear Back Flexion, Understand It Get my book on fixing injury here: Get my book ’The Squat Bible’ here: Get my 13-Week Squat Program? Get olympic weightlifting programming (part 1):