I read a Frederic Delavier’s book « Strength Training Anatomy » and I learned good stuff.
Standing with the barbell on the floor in front of you. Your legs spread with your feet outside (always in your knees axis) :
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Bent your legs to have your thighs in horizontal. Your arms are straight, you take the barbell with a pronated grip. Your hands on the barbell are to your shoulders’ width. You have the possibility to have one hand with a supinated grip and the other with a pronated grip to prevent the barbell from rolling. And with this technique, you can lift an extremely heavy weight.
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Inhale and block your breath. Arch slightly your back, squeeze your abs and you stretch your legs by straightening your torso to have a vertical position with your shoulder drawn back. Exhale at the end of the movement.
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Put back the barbell on the floor by blocking your breath.
It’s important to keep your back straight during all the movement to avoid injury.
This exercise works especially quadriceps muscles and adductor muscles.
This exercise works less the back’s muscles than the classic deadlift because the back is less bent at the starting position.
Note
It’s important to lift the barbell in front of your shins at the beginning of the movement.
Do this exercise with light weights and high sets (maximum 10 sets) to strengthen the lumbar’s region by working thighs and gluteus.
If you do this exercise with heavy weight, you need to be careful to not trauma hips joints, adductors muscles, and lumbosacral junction.
The sumo deadlift is one of the 3 powerlifting’s movements.
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-Steph