Originally Posted by
Michael Wolf
Posting a video - with all the proper and necessary homework done first by reading the sticky and filming according to it's wise and benevolent dictates - will probably be necessary here.
I'm not a PT and to my knowledge, haven't worked with someone with a medically diagnosed anteverted femoral neck, but if I understand the condition correctly, I would think you'd turn your toes a little less out than the normal way we teach the deadlift. That should also make it easier to keep your knees in line with your toes. Remember we never want the knees indiscriminately shoved "OUT!" We want the toe angle out a bit, ideally, to better recruit the ab and ad-ductors of the hip into the movement, and we want the femur to line up with the tibia because the knee (basically) works like a scissor and doesn't like twisting on it. But if you have a situation where the toe angle can't be out because of your anteversion, you shouldn't just be shoving knees out anyway. You should be lining it up so your knee points the same direction as your toes, so if your toe-out is only 0-5 degrees, instead of the usual 10-15 degrees we might usually start with in the DL, then your knees should match that angle.