 So today we're going to talk about why one of my favorite cues for deadlift is to push the floor Away like leg press the earth away from your body like your superman next All right, so Rachel's really gonna model this here in a minute, but I'm gonna walk through a little bit about what we're doing so When somebody deadlifts and we've done this setup on the deadlift I'm gonna do this in my sock so you can really see my feet See where the pressure is on my feet I'm gonna set up the deadlift perfectly correctly and while the deadlift is certainly a Pole you're picking the thing up. You're deadlifting it up To the lifter we want to think about instead. It's a push like we're pushing The floor away from our body and when we do that it starts to move it correctly Because in a deadlift and I I don't want you to think about this while you lift But in a deadlift what we're gonna do is it's actually the quads are gonna extend the knees a little bit first and Then the hips start to open up right and then it tips and Knees knees and hips so in order to extend the knees first which the quads do I'm just gonna pretend like I'm sitting in a In a leg press machine and I'm leg pressing the earth away, so I'll do a quick rep So I'm gonna do the same kind of set up we talked about right so it's one inch from the bar And again, I've taken my shoes off so you can kind of see how will my feet are planted on the ground I'm gonna take this grip out here to get about here shins are slightly forward and out I'm gonna squeeze my chest up and I'm tight and then all in rather than thinking about picking up the bar I'm gonna think about pushing the floor away with my with my quads and my knees so like this Right and up and down I'm gonna do it again and what that does when you leg press is it pushes the knees back so the bar can come up in a Vertical line. It doesn't have to go around your knees So I leg press it away the bar drags up the knees and up the legs and it's out of the way I'll do it one more time and Rachel will do this Let's up Please come out of the way drags up hips first then knees Then hips hips Then these just like that make sense. So the exact same thing. Let's try it with you Okay, set up your deadlifts. So walk forward till you're one inch from the bar And over at the bar Shins forward and knees out Really squeeze your chest up hard and then leg press the earth away leg press perfect just like that now Drag the bar up your thighs not just your shins back down Do a good job of keeping on your shins. I want to see the bar actually drag up your pants Chest up push. Yes, perfect two more Yes, good again on the pants on the thighs Good nice job And that lets you know that you're leg pressing the floor away now. Here's what happens if you do it the opposite direction I'm gonna step back in here for a second So if I don't do that and I think about picking the thing up See if I can do this in correct form. So my knees are bent. I'm the chest up I'm not gonna leg press the floor away I'm gonna lift the bar up and as I lift the bar up you'll notice the shins the knees stay bent I have to go around the knees and up And it's much less efficient And so instead I don't want to have to think about Knees than hips hips than knees. I just want to think about the primary cue of leg press the floor away So chest up Leg press boom Thumbs up nice and smooth knees get out of the way chest up Knees get out of the way and you can see it's actually gonna grab my shorts and drag my shorts up my thighs a little bit and Drag right back down. It's in contact with my legs All the way up and all the way down That's why we use the leg press Q so for people of leg press before what it's really doing is it's allowing you to stay heavy on midfoot Push through midfoot and also pull your knees back out of the way So the bar goes straight up and down so it stays completely vertical on the deadlift so Next time you're deadlifting especially heavy Think about Leg press the earth away, and that'll keep the bar nice and vertical right on your legs And you've had a feel for more great tips on deadlift how to do it, right? We've got an entire Library of how to do deadlifts correctly how to grip it correctly start to finish for absolute beginners all the wonderful deadlift playlist right up there