💪 @ The Gym Doing Deadlifts 🍁Reduce Lower Back Pain 🍎 Healthy4Life 💦

1. Activate your hip extensors
Deadlifts are among the best exercises for training your hip extensors. Your hip extensors include the gluteus maximus and hamstring complex, which are commonly targeted muscles in fitness programs due to their functional use and aesthetic appeal when properly trained.

Research suggests that deadlifts are superior to squats when it comes to training these muscles. Still, squats offer different benefits than deadlifts and are also an important component of well-rounded fitness programs (1, 2).

The activation of the gluteus maximus and hamstrings when performing deadlifts will lead to both increased strength and size of these muscles.

2. Reduce lower back pain
Lower back pain is an incredibly common complaint among the general population.

While there are many causes of lower back pain that require differing treatments, research suggests that for mild mechanical low back pain, deadlifts can be an effective tool for reducing or reversing this ailment (3).

Note that proper deadlift technique with a braced, neutral spine is crucial for ensuring deadlifts do not aggravate your pain. You should consult a healthcare professional before attempting deadlifts as part of a treatment for lower back pain.