Yeah, bashing giant bloody swaths along your shins is indicative of a bar path problem. Perhaps you should re-analyze your start position.
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Destroying My Shins
Coach,
I am destroying my shins when I deadlift and power clean. Does this suggest that I am not pulling vertically? I can't imagine that this is normal. You should have seen my legs at the gym today, blood running down my sweats. Disgusting.
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Yeah, bashing giant bloody swaths along your shins is indicative of a bar path problem. Perhaps you should re-analyze your start position.
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When I had this problem before, it was when I was trying to "squat" the bar off the floor too much (too vertical of a back angle).
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The plastic bottle trick works; somewhat. I still managed to rip off a huge scab and bloodied up my new Chuck Taylor's. I think I may have started with the bar too close. I only ever hit my left shin and that is independent for grip style.
(plastic bottle trick: take a 2L plastic bottle and cut the top and bottom off. Make one vertical cut from top to bottom so that the bottle can wrap around your shin(s).)
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