 What should the arms be doing when you're deadlifting? So I had one of my mentoring clients setting up for his deadlifts and he's trying to get a nice straight back position so that he doesn't hurt his back and what he doesn't realize is that he's actually compressing it even more. And so what he was doing was he was pulling his chest up, chest forward to flatten out his back but in doing that it's basically like he's doing a row, right? So as I do a row my shoulder blades have to come back like this and so he was holding here with a lot of upper back tension. He's got a great looking upper back though because he's loading it during his deadlifts. He's got tiny legs though because he can't load them. When I'm deadlifting I need the arms to hang down like ropes, okay? I'm not gonna be able to row the same amount of weight that I'm going to deadlift, right? My arms, my upper back is not as strong as my legs are. So what I need to do is I need to optimize the leverage of my arms. Let them kind of reach forward. I don't want to crunch down like this. I just did that reflexively. I don't want to crunch down like this but I do want my arms to hang straight so that my shoulder blades are flush on my back and what that does is it lets the shoulder blades sit on the rib cage and you have this nice good relationship there that just keeps your arms stable while you're deadlifting.