Wide Stance Stiff Legs
Wide Stance Stiff Legs is a compound olympic weightlifting exercise using barbell that trains the hamstrings.
Olympic WeightliftingBarbellIntermediateCompoundPull
Primary muscles: Hamstrings
Secondary muscles: Adductors, Glutes, Lower Back
How to do it
- Begin with a barbell loaded on the floor. Adopt a wide stance, and then bend at the hips to grab the bar. Your hips should be as far back as possible, and your legs nearly straight. Keep your back straight, and your head and chest up. This will be your starting position.
- Begin the movement be engaging the hips, driving them forward as you allow the arms to hang straight. Continue until you are standing straight up, and then slowly return the weight to the starting position. For successive reps, the weight need not touch the floor.
Track it with MyoAmigo
MyoAmigo pre-fills every set of the Wide Stance Stiff Legs from last time, charts your estimated 1RM trend so you can see strength move without testing a true max, and flags a stall with a concrete fix. It also credits this work toward your weekly Hamstrings volume on the MyoMap heatmap. New to the movement? Start with picking a working weight and progressive overload.
