Exercise guide

Sumo Deadlift with Bands

CategoryPowerlifting EquipmentBarbell ForcePull MechanicCompound LevelIntermediate

How to do the Sumo Deadlift with Bands: step-by-step instructions, muscles worked (Hamstrings), and equipment. Log it in Vantora.

How to perform the Sumo Deadlift with Bands exercise

How to do the Sumo Deadlift with Bands

  1. To deadlift with short bands, simply loop them over the bar before you start, and step into them to set up. Ensure that they under the back half of your foot, directly where you are driving into the floor.
  2. Begin with a bar loaded on the ground. Approach the bar so that the bar intersects the middle of the feet. The feet should be set very wide, near the collars. Bend at the hips to grip the bar. The arms should be directly below the shoulders, inside the legs, and you can use a pronated grip, a mixed grip, or hook grip.
  3. Take a breath, and then lower your hips, looking forward with your head with your chest up. Drive through the floor, spreading your feet apart, with your weight on the back half of your feet. Extend through the hips and knees.
  4. As the bar passes through the knees, lean back and drive the hips into the bar, pulling your shoulder blades together.
  5. Return the weight to the ground by bending at the hips and controlling the weight on the way down.

Muscles worked

hamstrings adductors forearms glutes lower back middle back quadriceps traps

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