Deadlift trying set up variations.
I’m starting to experiment with deadlift set up in order to perfect my form. I can lift a single @ 172.5 kg and todays lift was a relatively easy 150Kg for 3+
I tried to get everything perfect and break slowly and controlled from the floor for first rep. Initially it felt fine, but it put a really nasty stretch in my hamstrings and it felt really awkward and slightly painful. It seemed that maybe my hips were too low, so on the second rep I shuffled my feet back a half centimetre and that seemed nicely controlled and the bar came up without any of that hard hamstring stretch. Third then ended straying out in front of my legs, but that was probably because I hadn’t squeezed the back flat. I went for a fourth which was OK and then a bit of a rotten fifth, with some form breakdown.
Anyone shed any light on that initial rep and the nasty hamstring stretch ? I’m wondering if I should feel that and maybe I’ve been using a technique which has been avoiding it.
