How to Do the Wide Stance Stiff Legs
💪 Hamstrings, Adductors, Glutes, Lower Back🏋️ Barbell📊 Intermediate🏷️ Olympic Weightlifting
How to perform it
- Begin with a barbell loaded on the floor. Adopt a wide stance, and then bend at the hips to grab the bar. Your hips should be as far back as possible, and your legs nearly straight. Keep your back straight, and your head and chest up. This will be your starting position.
- Begin the movement be engaging the hips, driving them forward as you allow the arms to hang straight. Continue until you are standing straight up, and then slowly return the weight to the starting position. For successive reps, the weight need not touch the floor.
Muscles worked
The Wide Stance Stiff Legs primarily targets your Hamstrings, with support from your Adductors, Glutes, Lower Back. You'll need barbell.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the Wide Stance Stiff Legs 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.