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Make sure your knees are tracking over your toes, so they aren't caving in.

Nice thread. I think this should be a sticky.

The reason why you should use barbells is because dumbells usually go up in 5 lb increments, so the minimum you can increase by on the bench is 10 lbs, while on the barbell, you can use 2.5 lb plates...

And make sure your knees don't cave inwards.

You could also try doing the same weight again the next week to see if you can still progress. If you still can't get the reps, then I would reset.

The Valsalva Maneuver is basically what humans naturally do when they attempt to move something heavy - hold their breath.

So I think if you are grunting and letting out air, then the pressure...

As long as you go down with controlled speed (not just dropping down) and use your hip to bounce instead of the knees, it should be ok. Your weight should be near the heels of course, not on your...

This should help a lot. It's a very good article on deadlifting form and technique.

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459744

It's actually the name of the person who made the program (Mark Rippetoe).
He also wrote the Starting Strength book, which contains the Rippetoe program.

The heaviest plane pulled is 184 tons I believe... he pulled the boeing 747-400 for 91m in under a minute and a half.

If you have the equipment, you should try Rippetoe's program, or Madcow2's 5x5 program. Both of them are excellent full body routines.

Here is an article from T-nation about deadlifts.
It helped me a lot and it has been posted on this site many times, but i will post it here again so more people can benefit off it.
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Also, even if you go ATG (I do btw), make sure that at the bottom, you are not resting your weight on the calves, since if the hamstrings push against the calves too much, it will be as if you are...

You should try to pull your shoulder blades back when bench pressing, if you haven't tried it already.

At my gym, the lat pull down machine only goes up to 126 lbs >.<

Any of you guys have any idea on how i could increase the weights for these?

LOL it happened to me twice as well XD

Lucky no one was near enough to hear the boxer rip lol

I'm not sure if this will help, but it did help me a lot with my form.

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459744

Found that out the hard way lol

Thanks for the replies.
I would like to try GHR, but i don't think there is a GHR machine at my gym >_<

Hi
I've been lifting for exactly 7 months now and have been on Rippetoes and 5x5 for the whole time, and made some great gains. Most of my lifts have gone up by more than 50kg (around 110 pounds)...