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Teaching points

• Start with the bar across your shoulders and behind your neck, gripping it just wider than shoulder width
  
  
• Start with your feet shoulder width apart, back upright and chest held high
  
  
• Allow the knees to bent slightly as you hinge forwards from your hips
  
  
• Maintain the arches in your back throughout the movement
  
  
• Once you have reached your full range of motion (dependant on hamstring flexibility), slowly return to the start position

Variations and progressions

• Perform with a straight leg, allowing no degree of knee flexion. This places more emphasis on the Gluteus Maximus

Muscles worked

• Biceps Femoris
  
  
• Semitendinosus
  
  
• Semimembranosus
  
• Gluteus Maximus

Alternative exercises

• Dead lift
  
  
• Bridge

Related injuries

• Hamstring strain