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GOAL: Learn how to engage your                wheels for your deadlift. They                Drop your hips, with your back
            deadlift muscles and transfer                 allow you to feel the muscles                 straight, and pull the bar as you
            energy from muscle to muscle.                 that need to work in unison                   would for a deadlift. Once it’s at
            WHY DO IT: The hamstring                      and when.                                     your knees, pull the bar, leading
            curls prime your hammies so                   WHEN TO DO IT: Early in your                  with your elbows, and row it to
            that they’re engaged, and the                 workout.                                      your stomach.
            deficit Pendlay rows put you                  DO IT: Using a leg curl machine,              SETS X REPS: 3–5 sets of 10
            in a deadlift position, so you’re             either lying or seated, curl the              reps each.

            forced to prep your muscles the               pad to your butt. After you per-              EXPERT: Andy Triana is a
        PAV E L   Y T H JA L L  big pull—lats locked down and    rows. Stand on a raised mat or         the owner of the Performance
                                                                                                        competitive strongman and
                                                          form 10 reps, begin your Pendlay
            same way you would before a
                                                                                                        Vibe, a coaching community for
                                                          a 45-pound bumper plate with
            belly flexed. Simply put: This
                                                                                                        strength athletes.
            superset is like a pair of training
                                                          a bar resting against your shins.
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