Cable deadlift

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Cable deadlift

Upper legs · Cable

Target muscles

Glutes

Also works

HamstringsQuadricepsLower back

How to do it

  1. 1Stand facing the cable machine with your feet shoulder-width apart.
  2. 2Bend at the hips and knees, lowering your torso until your back is parallel to the ground.
  3. 3Grasp the cable handles with an overhand grip, keeping your arms straight and your shoulders back.
  4. 4Engage your glutes and hamstrings to lift the cable handles, extending your hips and standing up straight.
  5. 5Pause for a moment at the top, then slowly lower the cable handles back down to the starting position.
  6. 6Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.

Exercise text from exercises-dataset by Hasan Emir Yıldırım, MIT License. Credits