 Hey everybody, I got my trusty umbrella again, and we're gonna talk about using your arms too much at the bottom of the dead lift And what you should do so if I am Trying to pick a bar up like this and I initiate with my arms Then I'm effectively lifting only the weight that my arms can lift not the weight that my legs can lift My leg muscles are much bigger than my arm muscles so I want to find a way to load primarily the lower body muscles and keep the The upper body muscles tight enough to support my intent here But not so so much that they're doing all the motion, right? I don't want my arms to have to move I want to set them like this and then make the movement happen at my hips However, I want that to happen. So This one is I'm not gonna lie. This one's kind of hard to fix at least in my experience If I see someone kind of like initiating with this oftentimes They're gonna lead with their shoulders and they're gonna feel it a lot in their back, right? Arms might get tired. You might be put at risk for bicep injuries as well What I instead like to do instead of focusing on the issues and saying don't do that We have to we have to kind of understand how attention works So if you're noticing that you're doing these lifts and you're bending your arms first to do your lift I want to give you something else to think about right? I don't want you to think about your arms So what I want you to think about instead is trying to find and feel The backside of your legs the hamstrings and the glutes. So when you get to the very bottom I want you to feel a little stretch in the backs of your thighs And when you get to the very top, I want you to feel a little butt squeeze at the top Even if you're still kind of using your arms there I'm going to keep focusing your attention and my cues On your legs because as you learn this movement like this is this is kind of a An inexperienced fault, right? You haven't had enough practice with doing the lift The way that I want you to do it and if you go through it go through many many reps thousands of reps Then you can start to feel what it feels like to use your lower body and your legs And everything else will reflexively turn off mostly because you're going to get stronger and your arms just aren't going to be able to bend anymore You're going to have to find that leg drive right away off the ground. Okay So if your arms are bending at the bottom of your deadlift Grab your umbrella and find a way to feel your legs