So you had an ugly deadlift and now have a solid one? We await your videos.

But anyways that's not what's getting his back sore. Its definitely the squat. His last squat looked okay but in general he has a horrible squat.

Squat shirtless EV. I don't care what your gym says, it's one set. See what your lower back is doing, the video will be worrisome.

Nah there's no way I'm doing that. Back at my old gym, sure. Tons of juice heads and people taking videos of each other. I don't feel comfortable at my gym, it would be totes awkward.

Yes, it would be super awkward to be that exposed. Better to just put on an oversized Assani cape split from armpit to the bottom hem to make sure you're properly covered and your modesty remains intact.

not saying I'm great or anything but

obv terrible


decent other than bent arms imo


I agree his squat form needs to improve but he also needs more lower back work

Deadlift looks the same but different angle. I see the slight assani lowerback buckle in both. Will see you in the deadlift retirement zone bro.

If your gonna use bad form at least do it with some weight lol



And this after corrected it

Beast. You had a lot more. Wtf happened. That kid had heart. Look at that face of determination.

hope not loco. Also EV 170kg = 375lbs lol

But he is way lighter. And he almost never deadlifted when he picked that up. It flew like a booger. RIP vintageEV.

Deadlift form is literally the easiest of all the lifts.

Rip's setup and execution advice is literally fullproof across all anthropometry.

Well I hope you can find us one example around here. I saw yours from 225 to 475. Always solid. Born to deadlift.

Cuz i read the ****ing book. It's simple as ****.

I'll tell you what happened. H&F regulars helped me to become the form nazi I am today. Back then I cared so much about building strength and being injury free for so many years I lifted with a clear mind. Not thinking much about form/ injuries just solely anyway I can bring the weight up, is exactly what I did. I know better now.

Also what specifically about my squat form has to improve?? I've been posting videos of my week 3 each cycle and not much responses as to form check.

Main thing I see is you are not bracing as much as you could be. Need to take a huge breath of air into your stomach and press out against the belt.

And your balance is way too much on your toes, your heels come off the floor on every rep. Focus on keeping the balance more towards the mid-back of your foot, especially as you bounce out of the hole.

God damnit you're right.... I felt like my dl wasn't "bad", but far from savant. I messed around with all sorts of **** and only ended up with fairly marginal improvement. Maybe a little bit less lower back rounding and better glute+ham engagement, but it's still essentially an SLDL from the ground.

Brutal... you are basically born with your deadlift mechanics. Even if you're a pro strength athlete you can't DL perfectly if you weren't born to.

Yeah I think so. Except the weirdly close stance. That was canceraids for me, but maybe most people do okay with that. But the highish hips is actually a bit more beneficial for us long limb fellas and we run into MORE problems when starting with hips too low.

I feel like if I DL with lower hips, my hips just rise to where they want to go before I can break the bar off the floor. So now I just start my hips there and it feels tighter/better.

Very good points. I think that's what caused the pain. Pretty sure I was too far forward. From now on I should just video all final sets for squats even if it's week 1.

A good cue for me to stay back (or at least feel like I am) is to drive the bar into the ceiling directly behind me. Also making sure to really screw down my lats and get my elbows forward (and remain tight) throughout the whole rep. Of course, I'm back down to poverty weights right now, so who knows really.

So I woke up today feeling some improvements since yesterday. I iced it a bit before I went to sleep. It just feels sore today. Feeling pretty good about that, Feels like I dodged a bullet.

As a result of this pain, I've given a lot of thought about what I can learn from this- I feel I do have a number of leaks in my squat, a lot more than I ever thought. Unlike DL/Bench where I believe I can work my weight up quite a bit while keeping form in tact, squats might not be the same case. Going forward I plan to take more of a conservative approach to squats in relation to going up in weight while following 5/3/1 program. I am also concerned with the layout, I need to change it up and strengthen my lower back immensely. My quads have been getting annihilated so I could tone it down on extra sets of that and do some RDLs/Hyper extensions and maybe one more lower back exercise. Or just do like 5 sets of each.

Did arms today, some lower back pain still. Taking tomorrow and Xmas off. Hope to be recovered by Mon and re-evaluate my 5/3/1 workout plan then.

So I recorded myself at home doing a body weight squat to see what muscle imbalances I have. As you can see, only my right foot points outward as I'm going deeper. I need to do some abductor muscle exercises and maybe some low back exercises to strengthen my weak areas before going 250+ again for squats.