Legs · Bodyweight
Wrong Right Deadlift - Back
How to do the wrong right deadlift - back, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Logged as
- Weighted reps
- Movement
- Hinge
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Stand with your mid-foot under a loaded barbell and grip it just outside your knees. Set a flat back with your chest up and shoulders over the bar, then drive through your legs and hips to stand tall, keeping the bar close to your body. Hinge back down with control, keeping your spine neutral the whole way.
- 1Feel your glutes and hamstrings drive the bar up
- 2Keep a flat, braced back from start to finish
- 3Drag the bar close to your shins and thighs
Common mistakes
- Don't round your lower back to lift the weight
- Avoid letting the bar drift away from your body
- Don't jerk the bar off the floor or hyperextend at the top
Muscles worked
The wrong right deadlift - back mainly works the glutes, hamstrings, and lower back, with the forearms, lats, upper traps, lower abs, quads, mid traps, lower traps, upper abs, obliques, and adductors assisting.
- GlutesPrimary
- HamstringsPrimary
- Lower BackPrimary
- ForearmsSupport
- LatsSupport
- Upper TrapsSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- QuadsSupport
- Mid TrapsSupport
- Lower TrapsSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- ObliquesSupport
- AdductorsSupport
- CalvesMinor
- Rear DeltsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.