Alternative to Deadlift (anyone can answer)

[Sass]

I can't view Youtube videos here at work, but a few days ago I watched I think STS 1b video from Cathe where someone asked if there was an alternative exercise to the deadlift...can anyone remember or can view it and tell me what it is please?

Thanks!

 

[babindy]

Stability Ball roll-ins. They aren't a 100% alternative, but they can really work the hams, and glutes if you include the butt raises.

 

[kathryn]

To mimic the muscles used in a deadlift by doing more isolation moves, you usually have to do more than one: a ball roll-in plus and prone leg raise on the ball (lie face-down on the ball and lift your legs in one unit). The first move targets the hamstrings in their 'bending the leg' function. The second targets the hamstrings/glutes/lower back in the 'straightening-the-body from a bent position" function.

 

[Sass]

Thanks! A friend of mine had asked the question and I remembered viewing one of Cathe's STS check ins about it. I sent her the link to the Youtube video.