After a comment left yesterday's video I gave some different coaching cues to add on to my previously made article about external rotation.
Cues added:
- Knees out is misinterpreted by many lifters
- Glute activation must be initiated and sustained to keep external rotation throughout the lift, going down AND coming back up.
- Feel the bar in your feet, twist into the floor, do not let feet "roll" outward.
- without external rotation our femur jam's into our hip joint decreasing the ability to open hips thus decreases our ability to stabilize our trunk and back affecting the way we transfer force.
I have been having issue with sumo deadlifts. I am a conventional puller and the different set up is throwing me off. My chest is over the bar as if it were conventional, my hips come up first, I'm pulling with my back as opposed to my hamstrings and glutes, and more issues occur as I try to deadlift. Do you think you could breakdown the form and more specifically talk about how to properly activate and fire the correct muscle groups for a sumo deadlift?
Thank you,
-James