When you think "total-body muscle builder," it's not likely you think of a single-leg exercise, but the single-leg straight-leg deadlift will hit your lower-body, core, and upper-body all at once.

WHEN YOU NEED to power up your posterior muscles, there are few more effective exercises than the deadlift. There's one deadlift variation that may have gotten lost in the weight room shadows, however ...

In the study, 70 young women who had never strength trained before either performed leg presses and stiff-leg deadlifts three times a week for 10 weeks, or performed leg presses and stiff-leg ...