The key to making the single-leg deadlift work to your advantage: performing it correctly. Here’s how to make that happen—plus how to add it to your workout, and why you’ll want to do so.

The single-leg deadlift is an underrated example of this. Unlike the standard bilateral (balanced, two-foot) version of the exercise, the single-leg deadlift challenges you to balance.

Twitter: @AmySowder Step 1: Stand on your left leg with the dumbbell in your right hand, keeping your back straight and shoulders back. Look straight ahead at a fixed point.

Join them, and achieve your fitness goals faster! Single-Leg Barbell Straight-Leg Deadlift: This exercise is a lower-body trifecta! It targets the muscles of your core, glutes, and hamstrings.

Balancing on one leg makes this exercise a lot harder, in two ways. First, you need to use a lot more of those little stabilizing muscles just to keep yourself upright.

POPSUGAR Studios Single-Leg Deadlift Stand with all your weight on your right foot, abs engaged and chest lifted. Reach your torso forward as you lift your left leg behind you.

Seriously — this is not easy. I did single-leg deadlifts for a week — here’s what happened I tend to resist single-leg exercises in the gym because I don’t like the taste of floor.

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Thousands of women already have. Join them, and achieve your fitness goals faster!Single-Leg Dumbbell Straight-Leg Deadlift: Give your bottom a lift before bikini season!

Eb says: The single-leg deadlift will make you focus on the working side hamstring and glute more, but remember this is a full posterior chain move. That means you want your entire back engaged as ...

01 POPSUGAR Photography Single-Leg Deadlift Stand with all your weight on your right foot, abs engaged and chest lifted. Reach your torso forward as you lift your left leg behind you.