Video Transcript

Hi, I'm Colleen Pio, coming to you from Body Construction Personal Training Studio. And I'm going to show you how to do deadlifts without getting a big waist. Let's get started. So, the key to doing the deadlifts is, you want to bend at the hips and not at the low back. So, pull your belly button all the way in to kind of protect your back. And when you bend lower, your hips are going to come back a bit, and you're going to hinge here at the hips. The mistake that I see a lot of people making, is they're actually bending at the low back. And that's not what you want to do because it will set you up for injury. So, when you're doing your deadlift, bend all the way forward, you can grab your weights or your bar. Make sure your hips are all the way back, legs are straight. You can have a little bit of a bend in the knee. And then, as you come up, you're keeping your back straight and you can pull your shoulders all the up and back. Squeeze your thighs and your glutes and bring it all the way down. Hold it for a second and bring it all the way up again. Make sure that you squeeze at the top, hat you're squeezing your glute muscles, your thigh muscles and your shoulders back. And then, when you come down, remember to, be sure you're bending at the hips, not at the low back. So, there you have it. I'm Colleen Pio, thank you for watching.