Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / hinge
Trap bar deadlift
Stand in hex bar center, hinge hips back, grip neutral handles, drive floor.
Muscles
- Primary
- glutes
- Supporting
- hamstrings, quads, traps, abs
Mechanics
- Pattern
- hinge
- Equipment
- trap bar
- Geometry
- 120° Hinge Angle
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Hips and legs drive together; more quad than conventional — squat-hinge hybrid.
- Progression
- Add load after all reps hit with controlled eccentric; progress to high-handle variation.
- Regression
- Romanian deadlift to build hip hinge pattern before adding quad drive.
Watch for
- Handles too far forward — shifts load to lower back
- Rounding upper back at the pull
- Hips shooting up before the bar breaks the floor
Substitutions
- Conventional deadlift
- Romanian deadlift
- Goblet squat