Thanks again for all the helpful advice.
Someone else told me to deload about 20% and work on my form. Once I get my form perfect, then work my way back up.
Is that adviseable? I want to continue getting stronger and won’t lessening the weight stop that progress? Is it ok to continue pushing hard, even if my form goes out of wack, just to continue getting stronger?
Thanks,
Henry
[quote]HPLouis wrote:
Thanks again for all the helpful advice.
Someone else told me to deload about 20% and work on my form. Once I get my form perfect, then work my way back up.
Is that adviseable? I want to continue getting stronger and won’t lessening the weight stop that progress? Is it ok to continue pushing hard, even if my form goes out of wack, just to continue getting stronger?
Thanks,
Henry[/quote]
Strength and technique go hand-in-hand. If you practice with wonky mechanics, those mechanics start becoming ingrained in your motor patterns, and they’ll be really hard to break later on. I don’t know necessarily that I’d advise a deload to fix your form, as much as just stress that fixing it in general is the only way to go. If you feel as though you can make the corrections without backing off, that’s ideal; if not, a couple of weeks of lower intensity won’t hurt you too much developmentally, and may even help by giving you a little extra recovery (and thus, a bit more supercompensation).
Yes… take some load of the bar and get the proper motor patterns ingrained.
You look extremely loose when you’re squatting. Your back should be locked, your elbows should be under the bar. I’d take your stance out a little bit per other people’s comments but stance width, I think, is a really personal comfort thing. Regardless of the width of your stance your knees to stay over your toes, which would be out.
Honestly you really need to work on the basics of squatting. There’s the “So you think you can squat” series by elite that’s on youtube that’s pretty good, if somewhat geared toward the geared lifter.
[quote]HPLouis wrote:
Here is my back squat:
Hey man, I actually like your back squat. you’ve got a nice high bar position, and you go nice and deep, good on you.
Your knees coming in could alarm some people, but I’m not alarmed, it just speaks that you’re using your glutes very well, check out this video and tell me it’s still bad for knees to come in.
What I can see for some improvement, is you need to stay tighter and in general control your descent.
Also, your hips look off to me, and that would be why you’re twisting. Do this warm up daily and especially before training.
Other than that, do some bulgarian split squats for your assistance, and see if you can iron out an imbalances in your lower body that could be causing this.
The example is with dumbells, but a barbell across your back is good too.
Other than that, try to get your hands on some weighlifting shoes, they go a long way towards improving form
[quote]HPLouis wrote:
This is a vidoe of my deadlift:
Hey man, nice pulls. I really like how you use hook grip, eliminates the chance of imbalanced shoulders, and risk of injury to the biceps.
What I’d recomend is some pulls to the knee. They really teach you to set your back and drive with your legs. Do 80% for 4x4 for a month, and you can up the weight by 5% if it gets easy. Do a few singles after you do this, and you’ll find you come off the floor very tight and accelerate to lockout. Trust me.
You have some right to left movement going on, so I would suggest keeping up with the split squats to iron out the imbalances, and keep up with the dynamic warm up I provided above
[quote]HPLouis wrote:
Here is my front squat:
I also like your front squat, good rack position on the shoulders.
You’re falling forward in the hole, which would lead most people to feel you aren’t keeping your upper back tight, what’s actually happening is your butt is shooting back as your quads just aren’t strong enough to keep you upright, so you bend forward a bit as your hamstrings take over.
2 things you can do to fix this proble,
1- get weightlifting shoes
2- front squat more often to build up your quads. The more you front squat the better man.
as well make sure you’re doing the warm up before you train.
Nice lifts and best of luck.
I dind’t want to leave this thread without thanking everyone for the help and advice.
I really apprecaite it and I aalready am using all the the techniques offered.
Thanks again to everybody,
Henry
classy move man, and great attitude
you could try bringing your hands a little closer on the deadlift. When I lift my arms are just outside my knees. great lifts. I tried the hook grib but it was killing my thumbs.