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The sweeping deadlift is one of my favorite overall exercises. Basically, it’s a deadlift (or snatch deadlift which involves the lats even more) where you attach a resistance band to the bar and a post in front of you. The band is actively pulling the bar away from you so you need to engage the lats to keep the bar close to your body. I like the wide, snatch-grip variation the most because you can pull the bar all the way into the hip crease while keeping the arms straight. This is exactly like doing a straight-arm pulldown , which is the best lat isolation exercise you can do. What you want is to keep the bar close to you at all times. In the snatch variation in which you don’t fully straighten the torso when the bar reaches the hips, the lats really have to work hard. Hold the peak contraction 2 seconds per rep. And advanced variation is to finish the set by holding the bar in your hips as long as you can on the last rep. Remember to