Deadlift Form Goes to Sh*t in Gym

[ActivitiesGuy]

Why did you not take any of the advice given in your last “Help With My Deadlift” thread:

Someone Please Help with My Deadlift Form

Looking to the side before every rep alone is jacking up your form. No way you are staying tight doing that. Fix that first. It should mean less time spent at the bottom of the rep.

The very first reply you got was this one:

@T3hPwnisher

Looking to the side before every rep alone is jacking up your form. No way you are staying tight doing that. Fix that first. It should mean less time spent at the bottom of the rep.

Actually, this video is even sillier; before the first rep, you check yourself out in the mirror; even worse, on the third rep you actually turn and look at yourself in the mirror during a rep.

So the first thing you need to do is stop turning to the side and checking yourself out in the mirror before/during reps. After you fix that, perhaps you can read the second reply from that thread:

@Basement_Gainz

Breathing and bracing, learn it and do it 100% of the time. Video below.

Keep that bar as close to your shins as possible (start over midfoot from your perspective and pull straight back). It looks like you are swinging the bar out in front of you to avoid your knees. If you setup right you won’t hit your knees.

Drive through your heels, not the middle of your foot.

It looks like your doing two lifts. First with the legs and then with the lower back. Fire your glutes and focus on driving your hips forward in one smooth motion. If you do it right you will tag your nads with the bar.

…and yet here we are, a few weeks later, and you’re still posting videos of yourself deadlifting 135 while pausing at mid-lift to look at yourself in the mirror.

If you’re not going to take the advice you’re given seriously, there’s not much point in anyone trying to help you.

Enter at your own risk.