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Originally Posted by milesdyson
hate to do this, but here are some still relevant quotes from the old thread.
I thought I had cleaned up a lot of my extra movements, ie not looking in the mirror anymore, not going in slow motion on my negatives, etc
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Originally Posted by milesdyson
watch the dave tate bench video. put your feet up on the bench and bridge from there to your upper back. you should feel your upper back press deeply into the bench. try to duplicate that pressure with your butt on the bench now. you'll have to get a tight lower back arch to get close. right now you're just flat on the bench.
thanks, I will do. I think I get almost scared to bridge my back at all because back in the day when I would bench I'd be totally bowed out and have my butt off the bench.
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Originally Posted by Parlay Slow
do the drill in the squat section of SS ed2 for teaching yourself lower back extension
Okay, ty
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Originally Posted by nation
its weird man, think of how a gorilla sits, like a huge silver back gorilla. thats how i think dls (and squatting sorta) should look. its not really arching your back, it's just raising your upper body in the air, sort of like throwing your chest out.
That's the frustrating thing, I feel like I have a good academic understanding of how to do the lift, and of course I know what it feels like to have my back in extension. Just can't put it together for some reason.
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Originally Posted by SmileyEH
Are you:
doing a dynamic mobility warmup
static stretching outside the gym
foam rolling/myofascial release
practicing the movements at home with a camera/mirror and a broomstick
I practice the squat movement, but it's not so easy to practice cleans and deads w/a broom, unless I'm missing something. I don't really do any stretching b/c I didn't think there was a consensus as to whether it was useful or not. I do have a copy of MM though which I'll give another look. So you think this is probably a flexibility issue, I take it? Shoulder flexibility, maybe?
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Originally Posted by <3_Tha_Grind
ty sir
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Originally Posted by milesdyson
pretty sure it was in your old thread, but
note he says step 4 is the hard part. this is the part you seem to be ignoring or not understanding. once you touch your shins to the bar (where you roll the bar forward), your back stays looking pretty relaxed. there's no effort on your part to lift up your chest without dropping your hips. and you basically always let the bar roll forward as/before it breaks off the floor, which other people keep mentioning as the bar being forward.
walk yourself through these steps every time you deadlift. stand up between each rep so you have to remember every step.
It seems to me like the hardest thing to do is to keep the bar still during set up. I assume everyone's bumpers are round, I dunno why I can't get them to stay in one place.
as always, thanks for the replies