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Originally Posted by
Bill Anders
Strong work, Kaisheem! Isn't it great, once in awhile, to see if it's still there? You knew that it was.
re: your deadlift - you started the pull off the floor too far forward. Initially your hip position was good, then you did your test pull and dropped your hips a bit, then dropped them too much as you started your actual pull. Dropping the hips pushes your knees/shins forward, which pushes the bar forward (watch the plates in relation to the chain link fencing in the background and you'll see them move a link or so forward). Then, when your hips got back up to about where they needed to be and you started moving the bar off the floor, the bar was forward of mid-foot, which is harder to pull than if you had left it in position over midfoot. That position also ends up putting more stress on the lower back than if you had not moved the bar forward.
It's a pretty common error when we want to get a limit weight moving off the floor. I even had Rip lean into me after my deadlift set at a Seminar and say "you squatted that last one off the floor", which was true. It was relatively light, but I was gassed at that point in the weekend and wanted to make sure it got off the floor.
Bottom line - you could have pulled a fair bit more than 455 had you kept good form, although I know that's not your focus right now.
Keep at it!