 Hello everyone, welcome back to our lifting in everyday scenarios, what is this, a series I suppose. Today I want to talk about lifting a heavy backpack. So we're not necessarily moving here, but this is a lift that I might do every day and it's a lift that some people maybe need some practice. If you have some sensitive back issues, maybe you need to be very particular about how you pick up these everyday things. So with a backpack as you might imagine, sometimes they can get very heavy. If you know me, you know mine is almost always very heavy, except for right now. It's actually not that bad, it'll still work though. So big things to keep in mind here. Just like anything else, maximize your leverage, get as close to the weight as you can. If the weight is in the backside of the thing, maybe I need to think about that, maybe I need to bias myself a little bit more, because I know it's going to hang that way. Right that back end will swing out. Use your best judgment. Anyways, get over it, pick it up, make sure I got a nice rounded back position here, make sure I'm using my glutes to stand up, not my back to stand up. And then from there, I got to try to find a way to get it on my back. So for me, I like to just swing it, but I like to make sure that if it is really heavy, I'm initiating with my lower body, and then my arm just kind of follows through. Unless I'm feeling pretty antsy that day, and I need a good arm workout, then I'll just like purely just curl it, and then make sure I curl it with the other arm. This feels really good sometimes. So those are your rules. Try to minimize the leverage that the bag has on you. Try to initiate with your legs. And if it's particularly heavy, try to do all of the lifting with your legs.