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Wide Stance Stiff Legs
Wide Stance Stiff Legs is a intermediate olympic weightlifting exercise using barbell. It works the hamstrings, with help from the adductors, glutes and lower back.
intermediatebarbellpull movementcompoundolympic weightlifting
- Main muscles
- hamstrings
- Also works
- adductors, glutes, lower back
How to do it
- Begin with a barbell loaded on the floor. Adopt a wide stance, and then bend at the hips to grab the bar. Your hips should be as far back as possible, and your legs nearly straight. Keep your back straight, and your head and chest up. This will be your starting position.
- Begin the movement be engaging the hips, driving them forward as you allow the arms to hang straight. Continue until you are standing straight up, and then slowly return the weight to the starting position. For successive reps, the weight need not touch the floor.
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General information, not medical advice: start light, learn the movement before adding weight, and ask a qualified coach or doctor if you are injured or unsure. Exercise data from the Free Exercise DB (public domain).