Deads, How's My Form?

[fmrmarineinbiz]

[Big Arm Big Pay]

your form is bad actually you need to keep the barbell on your legs the whole time roll up your legs you start off good then you just put the bar foward and lift in the air stay to your body the whole time

[fmrmarineinbiz]

your form is bad actually you need to keep the barbell on your legs the whole time roll up your legs you start off good then you just put the bar foward and lift in the air stay to your body the whole time

At first I was like "damn, dudes got bigger arms than me, I might listen to his advice"....then I saw they were fat-ceps.

[TheGunShowMane]

I would say your form is ok, you have a nice straight back, but a thing you could tinker with is,
your hips rise quite alot before your back does. Your DLs are almost in two movements. Would be better to make it a smooth transition of using your legs and back simultaneously as your hips and shoulders both rise together

Hope that helps.

[phoenix2727]

I would say your form is ok, you have a nice straight back, but a thing you could tinker with is,
your hips rise quite alot before your back does. Your DLs are almost in two movements. Would be better to make it a smooth transition of using your legs and back simultaneously as your hips and shoulders both rise together

Hope that helps.

what he said. the way you do it you'll really F*** up your low back with the heavier weights.

[scorp508]

Your lower back is going to become injured very quickly if you don't improve on the fluidness of the motion. The arms should be perpendicular to the floor at the beginning of the motion and your shins could be closer to the bar.

[brad71983]

quick fix is to not lock out your legs so early, maybe experiment with not going so low on the start of the movement.

[brad71983]

Your lower back is going to become injured very quickly if you don't improve on the fluidness of the motion. The arms should be perpendicular to the floor at the beginning of the motion and your shins could be closer to the bar.

i dont see any glaring issues with him hurting his lower back, it stays quite flat, all i really see is the exercise not focusing on the parts he is aiming for. You are locking out the knees early, making the movement more an SLDL than a regular deadlift. So instead of it hitting your quads and erectors you are hitting the hammies/glutes and erectors.

[TheGunShowMane]

i dont see any glaring issues with him hurting his lower back, it stays quite flat, all i really see is the exercise not focusing on the parts he is aiming for. You are locking out the knees early, making the movement more an SLDL than a regular deadlift. So instead of it hitting your quads and erectors you are hitting the hammies/glutes and erectors.

Well said, it doesn't look painful to me, just a bit wrong.

[DJAuto]

You're performing 'steps' to the movement. Try to get the fluidity of it, like the above poster suggested.

Also, it seems you're having difficulty clearing your knees.

[Dominik]

Main problem I see is your back is like this to begin the lift...



And before the bar leaves the floor it's looking like this.



A lot of wasted energy and it throws off the balance of the lift trying to pull the bar around the knees as the weight is transferred back and forth.

[crackyflipside]

Remember, you focus on driving hips forward and not pulling the weight back. (if that makes any sense)

[nickboy333]

I think your problem is your legs are way too small for this exercise. The low part of the movement isnt supposed to be much lower back. its supposed to be legs.
My advice is do more squats and add some more mass to your legs. In the meantime, do what I like to call "half deadlifts", in which you start halfway (by putting BB on block / bench) and completely isolate lower back and use your quads only a tiny bit

[brad71983]

I think your problem is your legs are way too small for this exercise. The low part of the movement isnt supposed to be much lower back. its supposed to be legs.
My advice is do more squats and add some more mass to your legs. In the meantime, do what I like to call "half deadlifts", in which you start halfway (by putting BB on block / bench) and completely isolate lower back and use your quads only a tiny bit

thats actually called a rack pull there chief