How to Do the Trap Bar Deadlift
💪 Quadriceps, Glutes, Hamstrings🏋️ Other📊 Beginner🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- For this exercise load a trap bar, also known as a hex bar, to an appropriate weight resting on the ground. Stand in the center of the apparatus and grasp both handles.
- Lower your hips, look forward with your head and keep your chest up.
- Begin the movement by driving through the heels and extend your hips and knees. Avoid rounding your back at all times.
- At the completion of the movement, lower the weight back to the ground under control.
Muscles worked
The Trap Bar Deadlift primarily targets your Quadriceps, with support from your Glutes, Hamstrings. You'll need other.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Trap Bar Deadlift slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.