Mark Ottobre fixes deadlift form in three moves: lift from the sternum, not the chest. Pull your tailbone up and stack your rib cage to keep your lower back tight. Reach down to the bar with a fat stomach to maintain spinal tension.
From the sternum. What is it? Lift from the sternum. This is your sternum, basically. I don't say chest up because chest up moves you into thoracic extension, and we don't want exactly that. Basically, we want to be tight through the lumbar. And if we just say focus on our chest, we do that, and now we're overarching. You got to think of your lower back more like a fishing hook. This is not what a fishing hook does. A fishing hook stays stable at the base but rounds. So if we look at this, right, I'm going to pull my tailbone up and I'm going to stack my rib cage on top. That is what creates that trunk spine stability. When I reach for the bar, one of the analogies I like to use is imagine you've got a really fat stomach and you can't just like reach down and grab it, like the stomach's in the way almost. You got to like really reach down but keep this tightness through your spine. Reach, reach, reach, reach. So keep up through here. Yes, sir.
