If you’re starting from scratch and have never stepped foot in the gym before, you’re going to learn everything you need to know in order to feel confident and prepared to start your lifting journey.

The deadlift is one of seven most important for our natural human movement patterns. Learning how to conventional deadlift can improve your strength and muscle mass, decrease risk of injury from weakness or imbalance, and improve your general health. Today we’re going over how you can learn the set up and technique for the conventional deadlift!

The goal of warming up for deadlifts is to prime the muscles that will be working the most and the ones that will enable you to get into the position needed for your deadlift variation. These are some of the warmups I like to perform to get ready on deadlift days!

The technique & success of your bench press starts with your set up. If you aren’t set up correctly, you may limit your strength and/or put yourself at a higher risk of injury. This is exactly how to set-up for your competition style bench press, step-by-step.