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Originally Posted by Montecore
Can you film some squats with a lower load? Are you capable of keeping the bar over midfoot and not over extending your spine until a certain load is reached, or do you just have a completely borked movement pattern in general?
I think you accidentally attached your last deadlift warmup set video; can you throw up the one that shows you lifting a set of 5 @7? That was about @3.
I’ll include a set at 135 tomorrow. I’m pretty sure the problem is my lower back is so tight, I can’t get to neutral. The only ways I can is if I stand up against a wall with my feet a few feet away from the wall (which hurts my back) or get into a 90/90 position on the floor (which is fine). When standing, I can’t get to neutral no matter how hard I squeeze my glutes and brace my abs. It is similar to how I can’t get enough thoracic extension to deadlift with a flat back. I’m working on improving both, but is is an agonizingly slow process.
I think the only way to start with bar over mid foot is to lean forward from head-to-toe. Somehow this tends to be my position when I finish a rep. I may be able to get to this position in oly shoes, as they pitch me forward at the top.
Don’t know what to say about deadlifts. First three reps felt easy. Getting so far forward probably skewed my thinking of how tough the set was. One of these days I will have to fail so I can have a better sense of RPE!