About those straight leg deadlifts: Make sure you maintain contact with the muscles in the small of your back. When you’re new to lifting you’re not always fully in control of your muscles, so when doing an exercise like that, go relatively slow for safety’s sake. Start out with a light weight and high reps, and then work yourself down over time. You should feel the muscles working at all times. If they slip you can end up with disc allocation.
If you try to pull your 90% of your 1RM on the first try, chances are you’ll end up in the hospital.
[quote]captaincalvert wrote:
About those straight leg deadlifts: Make sure you maintain contact with the muscles in the small of your back. When you’re new to lifting you’re not always fully in control of your muscles, so when doing an exercise like that, go relatively slow for safety’s sake. Start out with a light weight and high reps, and then work yourself down over time. You should feel the muscles working at all times. If they slip you can end up with disc allocation.
If you try to pull your 90% of your 1RM on the first try, chances are you’ll end up in the hospital.
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very good advice I never pull on SLDL as hard as I can, I leave it until the end of my workout. I know if there’s a single excersize that will injure my it’s that one or heavy miltaries.
Good luck… don’t forget to work on your form as best as you can before you start going heavy.
By the way with militaries don’t just push as high as your arms go… push your shoulders up too until your upper body is totally locked out. I did that unknowingly and I’ve built some nice traps for a skinny mofo like me. I get a lot of people randomly give me neck massages in school last year… it kicked ass.
I’ve been giving out a lot of advice without beign shut down by older memebers here on tnation. You guys aren’t very milk mannered. Am I actually giving good advice for once :)?
oh yeah just 2 upper and 2 lower workouts a week. It’s a 4 day thing.
Preciate it Zep. I’ll give it a try.