How To Hurt Your Lower Back Deadlifting! 

"People not getting that it's a hip hinge" is definitely the driving force behind lower back issues with deadlifts.

I remember trying deadlift for the first time with a couple of friends, I ended up tweaking my lower back and I couldn’t touch my toes for a couple days. Now I can deadlift 405 conventional with no pain. I always hang from a pull up bar for around 30 seconds and end my workout with reverse hypers.

Went through this last fall. Back was so flared up I couldn't squat or DL. Love this type of content.

I was hyper-extending, fucked my back up every few months(pulled quadratus lumborum regularly) and of course could not progress, watched your bracing video, started bracing correctly, no longer hyper-extended, and well...broke squat and deadlift PR in a week not even sore the day after...so yeah thx a lot man!

Two things completely transformed my deadlift: (1) abs with an inhale. (2) lats pulling scaps straight towards hips. I *never* feel low back pain on deadlifts anymore, no matter how heavy. Hamstrings and glutes maybe, but never low back. This is following Swede Burns (this channel) and Chris Duffin (Kabuki strength).

A couple things that have really helped my DL is core strength and hitting my glutes. By working those couple things my DL has steadily gone up. Also taking videos of myself doing the lift has helped me prefect my form.

Forcing myself to hip hinge via RDLs and getting much stronger at those has been pivotal in my deadlifting right and even understanding deadlifts in the first place. RDLs are a really good teaching tool as well as a hip hinge strengthener.

Really interesting and informative. I'll be getting back into deadlifts shortly following some lower back issues and will use this as my template. Appreciate very much the content.

This is the kind of content I enjoy from elitefts. Lets stay away from the overly meme'd content, pls.

This is all well and good, but you promised me you’d tell me how to snap up my shit based on the title

Thank you for this video, I was about to take the scissors for a few laps around the pool. I guess I will just sit down and use them to cut out old magazine photos of John Meddows

Well, after hours of correcting technique, hiring personal trainers, I still have issues with my back. Proper SI joints is what you need for deadlifting

thank you very much Sam, thank you very much Elitefts. I appreciate you

Thanks! Wish I would have seen this last year. But I can now incorporate this in to my routine.

An exceptional video. Thanks

Coach Brown, THANK YOU ! This was so educational ! Much appreciated sir

The worse back pain I ever had was from unloading trucks working in retail. The repetitive lifting motion with bad form messed me up. Doesn’t matter how heavy or light something is, lifting poorly can wreck your back.

I've had more lower back pain from squats than I have with deadlifting, in fact deadlifts have helped my lower back if anything

This is GOLD! Thank you!!!👍👍👍

An interesting and very thorough review of rehab or novice process in deadlifting. It has been my experience that any tweaks to my lower back come from squatting. I have a couple of old injuries that make my technique squirrely :)

Messed up my bracing on a well below max pull (5 rep set) yesterday, felt something weird on my left lower back, but I finished the set. Fortunately the pain really kicked in while resting and I aborted the rest of the sets. May have to use some of these techniques to ease back into it when the pain eases up.

For deadlifts, I dislike the term "pulling" from the floor. The deadlift is not a pull.......

i rather just do trap bar dl and rdl. I can do conventional, but there is so small margin for error for hurting my back and since i'm not a powerlifter i don't need it, i get all the benefits from other variations. If i choose to do conventional dl then it would be singles with and RPE 6-7 or something like that

have a history with a cracked pelvis and messed up my pelvis pulling a max sumo deadlift definitely going to use these to help build back up my deadlifts and have healthier hips

Am I the only one who hates the trap bar for deadlift? I like it for shrugs and bent over row. I find it hard on my low back for deadlifts.

I don't believe anyone will have issue finding a bar in that gym.

Not a lift to "mess with" or "try" with your friends coaching.. I go to the local Y and see this ALL the time,, kids trying to teach other kids how to pull,,, using wayyyy to much weight and less than optimal technique,,, I'm 63 and have been deadlifting for 7 years with ZERO tweaks. I actually TRAIN the movement instead of going for PRS. I think this video does a misservice with its cliquebait. The deadlift ,, if trained properly is a powerful movement esp for older athletes. It will keep them out of the NURSING HOME.

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no matter how I try to hinge I can never seem to take the pressure off my lower back deadlifting. It's a shame too because anything above 2 plates deadlift causes lower back pinches but I can comfortably squat 4 plates for reps. I'm 180 bw btw

You can damage your shoulder on a bench press. You can destroy your knees on a squat.

My hips still sore from injuring it sumo deadlifting a fortnight ago, I have no real idea why but it sucks...unlike this informative video

Looking bigger Sam!

Question, Sam; (apologies if someone’s already brought this up) Are sumo pulls on your list for safer deadlifting, as far as the back is concerned? With multiple herniations over the years (none from training) and diagnosed with degenerative discs, I found sumo pulls to be much, much safer. My hams, hips and glutes naturally get stronger just from the positioning and the ROM is much less than conventional.

I believe I strained my lower back, the chiropractor I went to believed is wasn’t a bulge. But now I’m super paranoid to go heavy. Should I start back with RDL for reps?

But coof! I thought we were supposed to protect and strengthen our backs!

Can you tell us what kind of shoes you're wearing ❓

I could have written this video

When I start performing the deadlift I take my stance keeping my spine straight but when I try to pull the weight up my back gets rounded ..I tried things but this is still a problem for me ..And it usually happens when I try to lift heavy

I just do sumo RDLs.

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