Quote (CMBurns @ Sep 7 2018 11:45am)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMv_Mlvr1FY

Even on a max effort, there's nowhere near the rounding that happened in your vid.

Anyway, obviously rounding your lower back is much worse. I'm just recommending you work on strengthening your upper back and shoulders otherwise as you go heavier, your upper back rounding is going to shift where your centre is and you'll find yourself trying to pull upwards too much. Note that your rounding was a lot more pronounced than in the video you're using as an example.

If you observe the top athletes doing sumo deadlift for example, you'll see how much leverage they get from positioning their upper body differently.

I'm telling you this because I had the same problem you did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aa1VijSZrk (scroll towards the end for the farmer's walk practice).

My max deadlift was 795, at the time of the video it was around 700 tho (it's a bit easier with farmer's walk handles. The last set is with 380/hand). I went from having a rounded upper back at lower weights, to a rounded back in general as I went up in weights. It was starting to cause some annoying back pains and deadlift sessions always felt awful. I went to see a guy whose gym I trained that (Hugo Girard who was a top strongman) and got some coaching on deadlifting. I ended up doing a bunch of exercises like banded deadlift, really heavy upright rows, partial deadlifts, etc. Focused on pulling back (which allows you to drive your hips forward faster) rather than just pulling up and adjusted my form. Obviously there's going to be some rounding, but I kept it in check enough that I no longer had back pains and the weight went up another 95 lbs within a year.

Quote (CMBurns @ Sep 7 2018 03:45am)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMv_Mlvr1FY

Even on a max effort, there's nowhere near the rounding that happened in your vid.

Anyway, obviously rounding your lower back is much worse. I'm just recommending you work on strengthening your upper back and shoulders otherwise as you go heavier, your upper back rounding is going to shift when your centre is and you'll find yourself trying to pull upwards too much. Note that your rounding was a lot more pronounced in the video you're using as an example.

If you observe the top athletes doing sumo deadlift for example, you'll see how much leverage they get from positioning their upper body differently.

I'm telling you this because I had the same problem you did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aa1VijSZrk (scroll towards the end for the farmer's walk practice).

My max deadlift was 795, at the time of the video it was around 700 tho (it's a bit easier with farmer's walk handles. The last set is with 380/hand). I went from having a rounded upper back at lower weights, to a rounded back in general as I went up in weights. It was starting to cause some annoying back pains and deadlift sessions always felt awful. I went to see a guy whose gym I trained that (Hugo Girard who was a top strongman) and got some coaching on deadlifting. I ended up doing a bunch of exercises like banded deadlift, really heavy upright rows, partial deadlifts, etc. Focused on pulling back rather than just pulling up and adjusted my form. Obviously there's going to be some rounding, but I kept it in check enough that I no longer had back pains and the weight went up another 95 lbs within a year.

Quote (Excusemem8 @ 7 Sep 2018 09:02)

A static farmers walk 'pull' is nothing like a barbell deadlift JFL

How much have you deadlifted on a stiff straight bar with a vid showing your pulled back shoulders?

Quote (CMBurns @ Sep 7 2018 09:07pm)

795 was my highest standard deadlift pull in the gym. That was about 7 or 8 years ago? The only videos I have of myself training are other people taping me.

I actually just bought my first ever cellphone today!

Quote (ozzyarmy3 @ Sep 11 2018 11:07am)

I think I’m going to let this thread die off, this sub form is dead as fuck.

Last update, worked 70% for 6x5, last set was 12 reps. Did a shit load of accessory movements and called it. Feeling good, gonna keep grinding..

Thanks for following for so long, my journey isn’t done yet 👍

Quote (serialj0e @ Sep 11 2018 04:55pm)

Well people read it sucks u quit but yea how's ur bodyfat and shit doing?

Quote (ozzyarmy3 @ Sep 11 2018 01:45pm)

It’s going really well, I’m sitting around 225 and nearly sub 20%. My numbers are higher than ever, my endurance is higher than ever and I feel better than ever..

It’s been a long journey to just get where I’m at now, but I’m finally starting to tune it and bring it all together.

I’ll make another thread dedicated to my meets, I’m done caring about gym PRs.