TRAP BAR DEADLIFT

Use the trap bar to reduce stress on your spine and emphasize your quads. Particularly if balance, technique, or the bar hitting the knees is a problem, try the trap bar. You perform this movement as you do the conventional deadlift, except that you stand inside the trap bar.

1. Position yourself inside a trap bar.
2. Bend into a squat to grasp the handles, with the back flat and the abs tight. Inhale.
3. Exhale and raise up while moving the shoulders and hips as a unit.
4. Stand erectly, but don't lean back at the top of the lift.
5. Lower the weight, keeping the back flat by first bending at the hips and then at the knees.
6. Pause and reset the starting position before doing another rep.