Took on what was said about my knee-thigh angle when deadlifting and changed that up today. It felt tons easier to lift the weight, actually felt like 10kg lighter than when I had my knee at ~90 degrees, but also seemed harder to set my back. I can't really tell if I'm rounding too much so hopefully you guys can see better than I can. Is that angle good btw?

Watched the 80kg looked good

Also looked light so post more when they start getting heavy but so far so good

also you can try experimenting with keeping your head down, it's less painful for me

Thanks. Yeah they are quite light atm, especially with the new knee angle (amazed at how much difference that made). Going to add 5kg per workout and will post checks at 90kg and 100kg.

I know about the head thing. I had the same problem on squats and managed to fix it there but was concentrating on too many other things here.

First squats with a belt. I think they are pretty good.

Why the belt?

I assume to train at heavier weights.

Why not the belt?

Form is hard to see from that far away...seems similar to your past form imo.

Was just curious about his reasons. Seems pretty light weight to start using a belt.

i was just trying it. Belt seems to be pretty universally recommended though with few or no cons.

Bad angle, but looks like you are leaning forward from the start.

On the way down you are bending your knees and moving the bar around them. Think hips back and bend you knees after the bar has past.

I'm doing low bar position. It seems difficult to lean back much farther without the bar being over my mid foot.

I know that. Angle could be bad, but appears you are leaning forward much more than you should. Even with the lowbar placement you should be able to stand up straight.

I'm still shoving the bar forward with my shins. Other than that though, how does this look?

I'm working on getting better triple extension on hang PCs. I did some clean pulls to see if they help. Idk if I'm doing the pulls right or not.

3 pulls + 3 pcs x135:


1st set 150x3

clean pulls need work. youre kinda just doing a standing back extension
try going from a dead hang and stand all the way up before hipping the bar. just need to be a little more patient in the 2nd pull and focus on keeping the bar close to your body. you can also try a little wider grip to make the bar hit higher. this is at :23 on the first vid. you can see how closed your hips are, you also are standing a little too straight up when right above the knee, really push your butt back and make sure your knuckles are pointed straight down towards floor. if you arent already using hook grip, might as well start now. your footwork looks very good, jumping a little backwards always better than going forwards.

going from deadhang on clean pulls and clean, maybe with less weight, like 95# or so, this will help so you wont be doing the quick down/up which results in not opening hips all the way. you may want to do some cleans or from the floor too which will help also with this.

80kg squat and 90kg deadlift - I know I'm still looking up too much on deadlift, but other than that how does my back look?

^^^ 1st vid is private

Sorry, should be sorted now.

squat; its hard to tell but if you're high baring , point your elbows straight down to help keep vertical torso. you could go a little deeper as well

Hip movement: good or not good? My knees are locked of course.

I'm trying to follow the cue in figure 3-17 of BBT 3rd ed.

i don't think that's quite the motion, but i haven't read the 3rd edition press chapter so who knows. I'm personally not a fan of it. If I'm pressing, it's cuz I want my upper body to get stronger. If I want to get hips involved so i can get a few more pounds, I might as well push press and get a lot more pounds.

Just my opinion.

I haven't read the 3rd book either, but hips would have to start farther forward. I don't see a "layback" in that vid at all.

I also think Renton's elbows need to start more forward...bar path isn't vertical imo.

Deadlift check please



Prob not the first to post this one ...

Bit worried I'm on my way to having this happen. Last few deadlifts I've done have made me feel very lightheaded afterwards.

is this caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain? you could always pre emptively lie down with legs above your head after each rep!