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Deadlift form check
Hello Coach and anyone else reading. I'm finishing up my second week on the Starting Strength program, before that I haven't touched a weight in at least 5 years and suffered from fuckarounditis back when I did hit the weights. For Stats I'm 43 and around 210-220 lbs.
Here is my working set of Deadlifts, 190 lbs. I filmed my last workout too and had upper back rounding, so I tried to work on keeping it straighter this workout but I still need an experienced eye to tell me what I'm still not doing right. My back looks more horizontal than it should be to my inexperienced eye, but I don't want to drop my hips any more unless I'm told to. Also I'm starting to have problems with grip at this weight (need chalk as hands where sweaty and slipping) and had to readjust between reps. And before I catch flack, I have weightlifting shoes on the way, hopefully this will be my last workout in these shoes.
Thank you so much for taking a look!!!
Deadlift form check - YouTube
Last edited by TedEads; 12-09-2016 at 11:07 PM.
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Have you read the handy sticky at the top of this forum?
http://startingstrength.com/resource...yes-means.html
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Sorry, I edited the post to fix the video link
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Was not what I was referring to.Originally Posted by TedEads
http://startingstrength.com/resource...lls-floor.html
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Ok, Yes I read that before I posted (as well as the SS book) and am trying to set up correctly before my pull. I do seem to lack proper kinesthetic sense and am trying to get a feeling for the proper position, but want to make sure I'm not developing a feel for the wrong position thinking it's right. Thank you for your help!
Ted
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Did you read this part?
The Deadlift: Perfect Every Time
1. Take your stance, feet a little closer than you think it needs to be and with your toes out more than you like. Your shins should be about one inch from the bar, no more. This places the bar over the mid-foot – the whole foot, not the mid-instep.
2. Take your grip on the bar, leaving your hips up. DO NOT MOVE THE BAR.
3. Drop your knees forward and out until your shins touch the bar. DO NOT MOVE THE BAR.
4. Hard part: squeeze your chest up as hard as you can. DO NOT MOVE THE BAR. This establishes a "wave" of extension that goes all the way down to the lumbar, and sets the back angle from the top down. DO NOT LOWER YOUR HIPS – LIFT THE CHEST TO SET THE BACK ANGLE.
5. Squeeze the bar off the floor and drag it up your legs in contact with your skin/sweats until it locks out at the top. If you have done the above sequence precisely as described, the bar will come off the ground in a perfectly vertical path. All the slack will have come out of the arms and hamstrings in step 4, the bar will not jerk off the ground, and your back will be in good extension. You will perceive that your hips are too high, but if you have completed step 4 correctly, the scapulas, bar, and mid-foot will be in vertical alignment and the pull will be perfect. The pull will seem "shorter" this way.
Note the emphasis on NOT MOVING THE BAR. Something you seemed to have missed.
As for what's wrong with your deadlift, you set up too close to the bar roll it around all over the place, and still pull with it in a position such that you're almost doing a SLDL. And you set it down closer almost every rep. Gaze point is wrong, and you shove the bar forward with your shins each rep right before you pull.
Last edited by Steve Hill; 12-10-2016 at 07:25 PM.
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Thanks Steve, I knew you'd call me out on the bar moving before I even started the pull but figured I'd take the heat for that in order to get the other pointers and to find out if my start position was even right to begin with. I'll work on correcting everything you mentioned, thanks for getting me pointed in the right direction! I appreciate it!
Ted
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