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Originally Posted by
Tom Campitelli
Watch what your head does on every rep. You look to far down, then wiggle it around, and eventually look up. Find a point 20 feet ahead and look at that. That should help with the head thing. Don't look down on deadlifts, especially not on sumo deadlifts. On the whole, your pulls look decent. Fix your head and I will be happy. Why are you pulling sumo?
As for your question about the first rep being hard, I have a trainee whose first rep almost always looks like a 1RM. I assume it has something to do with not being sufficiently prepared to generate force. It is probably as much a psychological effect as anything else. After you pull the first rep, you now know how much force you have to generate and can do so more easily. That's my guess. Wild speculation mostly.