The deadlift is one of the gold standard lifts in the gym. Its pretty simple, really: You load a barbell up with weight, grab it with a shoulder-width grip, plant your feet on the floor and lift.

Over the past decade, military fitness tests have evolved from purely calisthenics and cardio testing to incorporating weightlifting, including the bodyweight bench press and the hex bar deadlift. The ...

If there's one exercise you need to be doing to work your core, upper body, and lower body all at once, it's the hex bar deadlift! Unlike a straight bar deadlift (where the weight is in front of you), ...

It’s hexagonal. It’s almost too clunky to pull out of the bar holder in the gym. And it has a huge space in between which most people don’t know what to do with. Imagine standing inside a piece of gym ...

In the realm of strength training, deadlifting is one of those key moves you certainly know of, but may be intimidated to try for fear of injury. Or, perhaps you don’t know exactly what muscles it’s ...

You've heard by now that deadlifts are one of those foundational total-body exercises that have major payoffs in any workout routine. But there's more to the move ...

Before you can lift a loaded barbell, you have to find a bar and load some plates onto it. At some gyms, there’s only one type of bar, and it weighs 45 pounds, and that’s all you need to know. But ...

Deadlifts are one of the best compound exercises you can do to build full-body strength, but the debate between whether you should use an Olympic bar to complete the move, or a trap bar has been long ...