Ahh I see. when you start your deadlift, arm hammies tight to begin with?

dat form. yeah what Plaad said, look up Neck Packing. It should help with your thoracic extension.

Ditch the shoes too.

As for the rest of the excessive rounding, take off some weight and get the form right, you'll build up quick. This may mean resetting every rep. Kelly starrett has a great video about how to get set from the bottom, may particularly help you with keeping your back tight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp-PjVy_Al4


If you fix these, you should notice that your shin bone will run more vertical, as opposed to diagonal, and you should be able to have the bar go in a straight line much closer to your shin.

As for cues, focus on lats squeezed as hard as possible, driving feet through the floor and thrusting with the hips. Ontop of the above ^

This post was edited by Lil_Gueto on Jun 10 2016 06:07am

Great cues there that'll really help I think. Thanks watching the vid now

Your entire technique needs to be reworked tbh

Care to write out a step by step approach in layman's terms? All these deadlifting vids suck in my opinion.

It's not something that lends itself to a step by step set of instructions. There's a lot I would want to explain to you about normal ranges of motion and idealized position. Start you tubing Kelly Sterrett deadlift videos and he will talk about not only deadlift set up positions but fundamentals of the pull and also how to maintain proper mobility. Your entire vertebral column is disorganized, shoulders protracted and unstable, cspine hyperextended, L spine hyperflexed, lacking external rotation in your hips and your knees are probably suffering, and your feet are almost guaranteed to be flat

Bringing the bar closer made a tremendous impact on avoiding the lower back bending during deadlift. Will post a video soon.

Threw in a max day tonight.
Squat (lb):
225x3
315x1
345x1
365x1
375x1
385x1
390x1 (PR)

Bench (lb):
225x1
245x1
265x1
275x1
285x1
295x1
305x1
315x1

Fuk tommy boy .

Got a vid of the 315 bench ?

Getting strong

Was lifting alone so used phone to play music at the gym and had no one to record, I'll get a vid within the week tho

god damn, what you weighing in at now tommy? snap it to me, and your gf