Depth is suspect. Can you do an air squat that breaks parallel without compromising your back position?

I think so, but I am not sure whether my hip angle would be such that a bar placed on my back would be balanced over mid foot.

eta: I made videos of my warmup sets but deleted them to save storage. I may have gone a little deeper with just the bar. I'm doing tempo squats again today so I'll save the warmup sets and link one here.

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First time doing front squats in like a year. How do they look?

I'm back in the triple digits(kg). My knees seem a little wobbly, but that may be because I am new to using a belt and the bottom of the squat feels a little different. My stance also seems a bit wide. Any other comments?

Depth seems suspect to me but it just might be the angles as the view from behind when I went frame by frame seemed to be more okay than not

You are making 5 distinct steps on the walkout, you could tighten that up to 3 and leak less power.

I think the depth was worse on the first set (especially reps 1-3). Probably that is me still getting used to the belt.
I've never actually thought about the walkout and mostly just focus on getting tight once I'm in position. I think that is because I sometimes don't hit the middle of the bar when putting it on my shoulder and having to "wiggle" my shoulders a little in order to get comfortable. Maybe I should just stop and reset when that happens. Thanks for the advice.

Deadlift form check please

Not too bad.

Basically pretty good.

Setup needs some work.

Shoulders over the bar
Back flat
Take in big big air as much as possible, fill belly first then up through chest.
Get as tight as possible
Take slack out of bar. This will also help you stay in position through the pull. Right now you are loose and sloppy as you pull the weight.

Keep the bar close. It's drifting out in front of you. You want to drag it up your shins and thighs. Not unusual to cut your shins open when you're first doing DL. Keeping bar close is why you see people chalking their thighs.

You want to be pulling back not out in front. Pulling back hard enough where if the weights suddenly lightened you would fall backwards.

If you watch your reps you will see that your hips/ass rise first. This automatically throws you off and puts the weight out front. Changes the leverage and puts the weight on your lower back. Drive your ass down to help keep your hips/ass fixed in your start position until the weight comes up off the floor.

Look in KC's log for DL videos. He has great DL form and his video shows you these points I am trying to make here.

Be aware of keeping your back/shoulders in position throughout the lift. You are too loose and your back is moving around a lot.

My OHP keeps stalling around here.. 5x5x48kg..

main lifts:
Dead 1x145kg
Bent/o Row 5x5x60kg
Squat 5x5x110kg
Bench 5x5x78kg
OHP 5x5x48kg

Form can be cleaned up a bit but nothing crazy. Its probably a programming issue. Also this doesn't look like stalling...

Thanks for the reply.. I have been adding in more isolation arms which seems to be helping as my arms lag pretty bad. Will see how things go over the next few weeks..

Deadlift form check.. this was 110kg drop set from 140kg so im a bit burnt but this covers my current form....

1968,

First things first. Next time you videotape your deads, try backing the camera up a bit more so we can see the plates. It's tough to see when the bar breaks the floor.

That being said, the pull looks pretty good but you have one obvious flaw, and it's a common one. Your hips rise too much before the pull actually begins, which leads to lack of tightness and wasted energy.

This is your position when you start the pull:


This is your position when the bar breaks the floor:




See that grey line at the bottom of the images? That's from youtube and hasn't moved between images. Use this line as a reference to see how far your hips have risen before the pull actually begins. That's not good. Ideally, your hips won't move from the time you finish your setup to the time the bar breaks the floor. Like I said above, that movement results in loose hamstrings and wasted energy.

Next time you deadlift, try getting in the 2nd position to begin with. Try getting into this position by shoving your hips/butt backwards until you can reach the bar. You should feel some tightness in your hamstrings. This tightness can be used to spring the bar off the floor.

Colombo thanks mate very helpful.. I’ll try drop the weight and use those tips.. so basically stating position should be higher (hips).. this might explain some hip discomfort lately..

Thanks for all of that. I’ve been taking it on board and feeling way better. At lower weights I’m feeling pretty solid but my work set today was tough and felt pretty sketchy at times. Any input? If it’s starting to get really tough and form is slipping should I have a bit of a deload?

Not a great angle, but it looks like the bar is starting forward of midfoot at the bottom

Possibly. I definitely did the original setup with the bar over the midfoot and have been conscious of pulling the bar up my shins. The effort of a heavy set is probably degrading my form after the first rep though.

Will get a better vid next time.

The reps will definitely be harder the more forward the bar is. Film from a few feet forward of a direct side view - that will give the best view of all the components of the deadlift

Ron,

On your descent, let your hips come back first then let your knees break, will feel more natural. On the descent I see you breaking both at the start/same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4N4935tMk

Thanks for the tips all. I’ll try and get another dl vid up next week from a better angle.

Can I get a check on my squats from today? These are pushing my limits and the second vid is my 3rd set and the first time in this current lifting cycle I’ve had to give up before the 5th rep.

Squats look good. DL looks better...roll the bar back to your shins on every rep, crank your butt down as you pull. I don't know what program you're following so can't respond to deload question. Without knowing, don't let the weight dictate the reps, let the reps dictate the weight.

Thanks BPA. Makes sense wrt the reps thing. I mainly just wanted to make sure my form wasn’t degrading to the point of being horrible/dangerous on the tough work sets.

Didn't look like it from the video. And I think you had another rep there.

Explain pls?

Deadlift form check please. Not sure if I'm quite locked out at the top. Also, 3rd rep the bar rolls forward a little before I pull and I swing out first as a result. Edit: Adding link because I'm not sure the embed is working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkYN8qIKWkA