Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift — Dumbbell Variation
Dumbbell version of the Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift. Same target muscle (hamstrings) with a different equipment requirement.
Substitution plate
Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift is a PULL hamstrings parent; the DB swap keeps force direction first, kit second.
Parent exercise
Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift
canonical record
Primary muscle
Hamstrings
trained via parent
Equipment
Dumbbell
this variation
Parent docs
1100
high third · 204 DB
Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift opens on force profile: a PULL parent (Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift) swapped onto Dumbbell. Force direction is the first filter before muscle (hamstrings) or kit.
Among 883 variation pages, this DB substitute sits in the upper third by parent documentation (≥ 974 chars). Deep parents usually mean a richer step list on the canonical exercise page, not a harder DB swap by itself.
DB swap on Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift (PULL · DEEP · force)
One of 204 Dumbbell substitutes on PlainExercise. Parent Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift is hamstrings · machine · beginner with 1100 instruction characters (DEEP, high corpus band). Use this page when dumbbell is what you have; open the parent for the step list.
Educational catalogue only, not medical or personal-training advice.
Parent exercise · DEEP
Open Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift for the full 1100-character step list, muscle map, and sibling swaps; this page only changes the implement to Dumbbell.
Safety notes · DB · PULL/COMPOUND
Free-weight DB compounds raise stabilizer demand on the PULL path. Confirm hamstrings still leads before swapping into a programmed set. Read the Compound vs isolation guide before programming the swap.
Read with Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift
Nearest DB cohort peers by parent documentation depth (DEEP · PULL/COMPOUND · FLOOR), plus parent and guide.
Wide-Grip Decline Barbell Pullover — Dumbbell Variation
DB swap on Wide-Grip Decline Barbell Pullover (chest). Parent docs 1100 chars · Δ0 vs this DEEP parent.
Elevated Cable Rows — Dumbbell Variation
DB swap on Elevated Cable Rows (lats). Parent docs 1099 chars · Δ1 vs this DEEP parent.
Clean Pull — Dumbbell Variation
DB swap on Clean Pull (quadriceps). Parent docs 1109 chars · Δ9 vs this DEEP parent.
Pallof Press With Rotation — Dumbbell Variation
DB swap on Pallof Press With Rotation (abdominals). Parent docs 1113 chars · Δ13 vs this DEEP parent.
Push Press — Dumbbell Variation
THIN pole in the DB cohort, parent Push Press at 2 instruction chars.
Power Clean — Dumbbell Variation
DEEP pole in the DB cohort, parent Power Clean at 3264 instruction chars.
Smith Machine Stiff-Legged Deadlift
Canonical parent (MACHINE · PULL · COMPOUND). Steps and muscle map live here, this page is the DB substitute only.
Compound vs isolation
Guide drill for a DB · FLOOR · DEEP substitute, how to judge whether the force profile still transfers.