How to Fix the Round-Back Deadlift (It Starts in Step2!)

Rounding of the back is often not due to a failure to set the back, but of a failure to KEEP setting the back. Today we're going to fix with a simple cue.
In the Starting Strength approach to the deadlift, which we use for The Barbell Prescription, we set the back in set 4 when we take a breath and raise the chest, pointing the nipples forward. This is absolutely essential and works well to establish spinal extension for a safe, efficient, heavy deadlift. And the deadlift is in turn essential for a strong back, and to stay fit after fifty.
The problem we usually run into is not that the athlete forgets or fails to set the back for the deadlift. It's often rather two other problems: the "set it and forget it" deadlift, in which the back setup is not maintained into the pull, and the failure to realize that the back setup--and the deadlift itself--actually BEGIN IN STEP 2, at the moment you establish the grip.
Here, Sully explains how taking the grip and beginning the lift in step 2, and making your back set up an "integration" of many constant back setups will help most lifters improve and correct their back setup for the deadlift, making it stronger, safer, and more productive.
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