Thanks for the feedback guys.
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Originally Posted by Renton555
You're just not getting tight enough. It's something that is learned with practice more than taught. It's such a light weight for you that you could proceed with your form for a while and hopefully tightness clicks for you by the time the weight gets heavier. Squeeze your chest up, think about up up up, without dropping your hips and kicking the bar forward. Doing all of this should cause the bar to clink against the collars, and the collars to clink against the plates.
Squeeze your armpits and initiate the movement with your legs once everything is super tight. Knees should be touching your arms with shoulders just in front of the bar as you break the bar off the floor.
Definitely not squeezing my chest up. Afraid of arching my back I guess but SSC also recommended it below, so obviously gotta look into that
Worked on squeezing my armpits but I wonder if my stance or grip was too wide. Couldn't get it that tight.
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Originally Posted by SSC-Ry
Best angle to film the deadlift is from direct side or a little in front at about hip height. You are not setting your back. At the bottom squeeze your chest up hard while arching your low back. This is the hardest part of the deadlift and it should be uncomfortable. Also looks like you are setting up with the bar forward of midfoot as well as kicking it forward in between reps by dropping your hips. Set up with your shins one inch from the bar(which puts it over the midfoot) and return it over midfoot in between reps. What were the knee issues?
Some form of patellar tendonitis. I had taken a few weeks off of lifting and didn't de-load my squat enough, and something went wrong. Anytime I pushed down (walking up stairs, getting out of a chair) I would get pain. Thought it was gonna be something that I rested for a few weeks and would be fine... but after two months I decided to go to PT.
Focused a lot on strengthening the glutes, proper hinging at the hips, outward tibial rotation. Turns out my feet are super overpronated, so working on that as well. I've been squatting without pain, though I can tell that if I lapse on form it'll hit me again.