Form Check Please - Squats, Deadlift, and Press - TY

[actionzen]

Started SS a couple weeks ago, but decided to start over with a progressive weight increase program using squats, deadlifts, press, chin ups, and bench for the time being. I just started this program so lifting light is important and will allow me to focus on form. I've benched occasionally, did squats on a smith machine at one point in my life, and have never pressed or performed deadlifts in my life until a couple weeks ago. Today, i pressed for the first time in my llife and I'm hoping what I've read and the videos I've seen on form translate into what I'm doing. I don't have a trained eye for seeing all the nuances, but I'm hoping I can get some good tips from the SS trainers on the forums. Problems I've been working on are rounding my back on squats and deadlifts, keeping my neck straight, squeezing my chest, and keeping my back tight. On squats, I can't grip the bar overhand yet as the stretch is too great, which either makes it impossible to squat or impairs my form altogether. Today was the first day in a week i could even squat as deep as i dd. In any case, thank you in advance and all comments and any tips are welcome. The following are the links to the videos:

Squats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0T_fHj47PE

Press:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo8gvSthgGE

Deadlifts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36L_fqnptnQ

[Mac Ward]

Squats: Tough to see for sure, but I think your heels are a little wide. You need a harder hip drive out of the bottom, review hip drive in the squat chapter. Eye gaze needs to be adjusted down. Lastly, get a better pair of shoes.

Press: Seems like a fairly decent strict press, not the press we teach. You do finish with the bar behind the mid foot vice pressing straight up.

Deadlift: Right before the pull you seem to lower your hips vice raising your chest...

You need to read the book again if you haven't already. Check the form check videos. The weights you are using are not sufficiently heavy to truly show us a breakdown in form. Review the book, watch other form check videos, run the program for a month, and repost.