 Talking deadlifts. So one of Ben's lifters, a decent weight lifter, X-Cross fitter, but really good at powerlifting. She competed in her first meet ever weighing around 65 kilos. She said her best squat, I think to date is around 340 pounds. Best bench is 170 or so and best deadlift is around 360 or so and she's never strictly trained for powerlifting, which is pretty insane numbers. Those are very strong and what I learned today is that she's a very good athlete. Her deadlift is fairly solid, pretty good positioning. Knees were just a little bit in than I'd like to see. Straight this specific, right? Who's stronger, Ben, or some powerlifter? Well, I would sport and I think mobility and flexibility is just as specific. So unless you're doing it under load in that exact position, it may not transfer. And then so the last piece is yeah, you're a little stiff in the hips. So let's try pointing your toes out just a hair more. Stands the same and then so maybe you're about here. We'll just sneak those toes out about an inch and then really try to get those knees way out there. So what I've been sort of practicing this week is when I'm trying to get my tension and get my knees out. And maybe you can help me figure out the best way to do this. Yeah, yeah. I've been kind of getting the slack out of the bar here. Yeah, and then pushing knees out here. Yeah, so that's perfect, except your knees are going forward just a hair. And what we want is to get that tension just with your back and everything just like that, but fall backwards. So you're almost about here and you get that tension and everything's fine, but then you start to bend your knees forward and hips under you. Kind of into something like this. Rather, I'd have you fall backwards and use this weight as a counterweight and pull yourself up. So I think about locking all this in just like you are flexing my lats, big breath, and then I think about pushing this whole kind of system that way, knees out that way. So I'm thinking about getting my shins as vertical as I can. So I'll take a big breath, flex my lats, flex my low back, hit that bar closely and just fall back. And then from here, now the weight is kind of walking. Having your knees travel forward or in for the majority is not optimal on the deadlift. I know someone's going to comment below, well, Sal and Sal does it. Some people can get away with it because you can get some quad in there depending on how long your torso and arms are. But for the average, we really want vertical shins and knees out is upright torso as allows and to get our tension back in those hips. I've talked about it so many times in the form video that we keep going over. But you want to lock in your lats, lock in your midline, get your weight falling backward. Kind of use that barbell to not only pull the slack, but almost teeter-totter backwards as a counterweight as I'm forcing the knees out. And then once you're locked in tension in the hamstrings and glutes, you will feel the tension. You'll feel time that like, dang, it's time to pull. I'm going to fall or my hamstrings are going to explode. And then from there, hopefully you just flex your quads and you literally just kind of squat and stand the weight up. It's going to feel a little bit different. It's going to feel a little bit weird for many people. And that's why I suggest for almost everybody to conventional deadlift for a while, build up your back strength, build up the technique of the hip hinge, which we've talked so much about. You don't want to hinge on your erectors. You want to hip hinge, locking and loading, flexing your lats, flexing your midline overall. She did awesome. She has two weeks on this. She's going to do a deadlift meat only, deadlift only meat for funsies. But I'm excited. Maybe we'll come back and work with her again on her squad and bench and see where she had strength wise. Because those numbers, although they're not world records, they're very, very strong with very minimal, what I imagine, proper programming, volume and training, considering she does Olympic weightlifting majority of the time. If you guys want more technique videos, ask your questions below. Give this a thumbs up. Be sure to subscribe and turn on the notifications because we got that hot shit coming because we got that good stuff coming. I had to take that five different takes because YouTube's bringing me down for dropping the S word. I'll see you guys in the next video selling Mike. I'm out of here.