Only my squat and bench are progressing

[SamGriffin]

To answer your question Sam, the reason I quit so early is because my strength seems to vanish very quickly.

I think, maybe, you are not driving though the bar once you get it moving out of the hole.

I used to do this all the time in the press and the squat. The bar seems to be moving plenty fast out of the hole so you ease off a bit. Then it hits the sticking point, slows, and getting the fucker moving again takes a huge effort. I had a few squat reps where the bar actually stopped and started to go back down but I was able to recover. Obviously, if you do this with your top weight, your going to fail.


She may have hinted at this already.

...Focus on bar speed...

Edit: Your deadlift video is set on private

[CThomas]

You're pressing and deadlifitng on your light squat day, right? Try doing them in this order: press -> deadlift -> squat. This way you will be able to go into both lifts completely fresh, and better focus on the form.

[Mr.City]

Fixed video settings.

[hatmanii]

If your warm-up sets are any indicator as to how your working set(s) look, you need a major adjustment to your form and setup. I think that once you do this, you will see the weights increase again. If you look at 0:41-42, that is what you should look like before you even initiate the pull. If you can get that setup lower to the ground, you should be golden.

I know that I can't pull nearly as much when my form goes to shit.

Good Luck.

EDIT: Also, your last rep wasn't TOO terrible. Some minor lumbar rounding but nothing extraordinary. Work on setting that back.

[Mr.City]

Thanks, hat. I'm going to try out your advice about DE deadlifts tomorrow. Also, been rereading the deadlift chapter of SS and think I might know how to fix a few things.

[hatmanii]

To be fair, it wasn't my advice. But good luck nonetheless. Let us know in a few weeks how things have gone.

[Mr.City]

My first attempt at DE deadlifts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LZttwY8tco

Any comments welcome

[hatmanii]

How did you go about doing these? It was hard to count the sets and rest periods because of the edited video.

List Weight X Reps X Sets with rest periods so we can better help you.

[Mr.City]

Ah, sorry. That was 225 for 5 sets of 3 reps with a 30-45 rest time inbetween. The variation was due to my inability to keep track of time between sets.

[hatmanii]

I'd lower the weight to something like 205 for 8-10 sets of 2 with 30-45 seconds of rest and progress from there.

Something just seemed off on rep three throughout.