How do you “lift with your legs” when you are picking it up with your arms or hands?

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I would love to know and have not been able to figure this out when I am trying to lift extremely heavy objects. I always end up hurting my back or shoulders because I don’t know how you force the legs to lift things while you are standing on them in one spot or moving. Are you also supposed to be lifting with your legs while you’re walking the heavy object to its destination?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

When I first started learning squats with a coach, his advice was “think less of it as standing up, and more as pushing your feet through the floor”. Sounds weird typed out but when you’ve got 150kg of weights on you it makes far more sense.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The most eli5 answer i can give is: push > pull movement. Pushing allways requires less effort and substantially easier than pulling