Focus on maintaining a back arch and drag the bar up your legs in one simple body motion…simple.
TBH, when you take your vids you are near or at your 1rm, that will break anyone’s form mostly.
Post a vid of a weight you can pull for 5-8 reps, that will let everyone know where your at. It will also develop your posterior chain allot more. Doing max singles is for comp prep really, like last 3 weeks lead up. Or unless you rotate your 1rm onto different exercises routinely, only hitting 1rm on each once every 2 months say.
[quote]rambodian wrote:
Focus on maintaining a back arch and drag the bar up your legs in one simple body motion…simple.
TBH, when you take your vids you are near or at your 1rm, that will break anyone’s form mostly.
Post a vid of a weight you can pull for 5-8 reps, that will let everyone know where your at. It will also develop your posterior chain allot more. Doing max singles is for comp prep really, like last 3 weeks lead up. Or unless you rotate your 1rm onto different exercises routinely, only hitting 1rm on each once every 2 months say.[/quote]
You should always post form vids with near max weight so you know which part is breaking down first. Perfect form on low weight doesn’t help people identify weak areas.
Max singles at the tail end of a comp prep? Wtf are you talking about?
[quote]rambodian wrote:
Focus on maintaining a back arch and drag the bar up your legs in one simple body motion…simple.
TBH, when you take your vids you are near or at your 1rm, that will break anyone’s form mostly.
Post a vid of a weight you can pull for 5-8 reps, that will let everyone know where your at. It will also develop your posterior chain allot more. Doing max singles is for comp prep really, like last 3 weeks lead up. Or unless you rotate your 1rm onto different exercises routinely, only hitting 1rm on each once every 2 months say.[/quote]
You should always post form vids with near max weight so you know which part is breaking down first. Perfect form on low weight doesn’t help people identify weak areas.
Max singles at the tail end of a comp prep? Wtf are you talking about?[/quote]
Now she was asking for form help, not what area she is week in, these are separate issues and you are clearly confused. Checking form is to see if she can actually do the lift correctly. Breaking down form helps expose what areas are week and this will usually be used to choose appropriate assistance exercises when deciding upon a routine.
Her form in the second vid was not to bad as she used a lighter weight, this clarifies that she is on track with the lift. She needs to work on a few week areas to ‘maintain’ form when the weight gets very heavy.
The second part of your response about max singles on the tail end of a comp prep, I have used this method in the past by using my former 1rm, which is usually closer to about 95% of my new 1rm in the last few weeks. It’s not a popular method, But I find it readies me for comp day better than only working at lower percentages. Not for everyone I guess.
And I say: listen to STB, because he’s the biggest puller, and the smartest guy in this thread. Sorry, no disrespect intended to anyone else.
Hypocrite that I am, I will add one thing which STB posted, not sure where. (maybe he’ll repost?) It was Kelly Starrett of mobilitywod fame, who explains that one should tighten/flatten/arch/whatever their lower back before going down to the bar; if you try to do it after, you are using your hip flexors and not your back muscles to do so, which is not optimal. (I say this from memory only, so don’t sue me if I mis-remember)
I wish you guys had said all that stuff last night so my poor mommy didn’t have to listen to me bitch over the phone for 40 minutes about how I am never going to get this f**king thing right!
I think I still am going to try out sumo for a bit. Maybe it will come more naturally to me or something.
And push I had this weird dream about you last night where it was like you were james bond-ish, and you killed these two russian terrorist people with this snow mobile thingie. It was pretty cool/action packed.
Spock, I’ll be interested to see how you make out with sumo. I find it much more technical and thinky. I switched a few years ago and find it much stronger for gear than raw. A suit gives me the pop off the floor for sumo.
I’ll support everyone about the mirror thing. I know it feels odd facing everyone but you may want to suck it up and get over it. I squat the same way in a commercial gym by moving the pegs to the other side so I’m facing the room. When I first started, it felt odd but then I realized how many people were watching me lift. Most people aren’t used to seeing women lift heavy and I have to admit I like watching people watch me and it amps me up. Try it.
[quote]UAphenix wrote:
Yeah, don’t stress. As my old lifting team said, there are about 100 different things you’re supposed to do during a lift to do it right, just focus on a couple and if you get those right, you’re on the right track. It’s not gonna happen overnight. [/quote]
Where are you located in Colorado? I’ve been trying to hunt down a monolift . . .
IMO, overanalyzing the deadlift is caustic. Not to say that you don’t want to focus on good form when you’re training for reps. [/quote]
I’m in Fort Collins and from what i’ve gathered there isn’t a mono anywhere close to me. The only place that I think would have a mono in colorado is Arrogant Bastard Gym in Pueblo CO.
Let me start by saying it looks awesome, you’re really figuring out your issues and fixing them. It is habit for me after training with a team who always wanted you to lift the best and most you could to keep critiquing and trying to get the best out of a lifter to point out areas of improvement. I would say work on getting that mid back and abs stronger, you’re fighting against the flexion but some good mornings may help that. I also noticed you weren’t wearing a belt in your new videos. Any reason for this? Being able to push against the belt may help with the flexing too. Just a couple of thoughts, hope they help.
FIRST OFF: Big thank you to everyone who posted in this thread. You guys are like free lifting coaches for me. Ima lucky duck (<—also nerdy).
UAphenix: I dunno, I figured I would stop using a belt until I got stronger, Lol. I am not sure if that is flawed logic or not? Maybe I just told myself that beacause I didn’t feel like carrying it home from the gym today…
I have been doing good mornings for a while, but I am not very strong at them so it’s obviously a weak point. Anything else you can suggest for mid back?
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
FIRST OFF: Big thank you to everyone who posted in this thread. You guys are like free lifting coaches for me. Ima lucky duck (<—also nerdy).
UAphenix: I dunno, I figured I would stop using a belt until I got stronger, Lol. I am not sure if that is flawed logic or not? Maybe I just told myself that beacause I didn’t feel like carrying it home from the gym today…
I have been doing good mornings for a while, but I am not very strong at them so it’s obviously a weak point. Anything else you can suggest for mid back? [/quote]
Um, if you’re already doing regular good mornings, I really like suspended good mornings or starting the good morning from the bottom position and making sure to arch the shit out of it. I also like doing glute ham raises with a choked band around my neck, the increased resistance throughout the movement makes it a challenge to keep the back neutral once fatigue sets in. Or there are 45 degree back raises with chains or bands.
(FYI, I have decided to make this my "Spock AKA Jenn learnslot ← that is pronounced like learn sSS a lot, but it’s all fast so the "a’ is kinda silent, umm ya) thread. Jenn’s a learnin’ thread might be easier. MMKAY
oh and not to be annoying and miss posts too much, but yes I have clearly gained about 15 pounds from my first video to this video, LOL. I like to think it’s about 8 pounds of quad, 5 pounds of ass, and 2 pounds of boob, but I am not sure that is 100% accurate, HA.
