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Originally Posted by Romulus141
As already said, your bar position may be a little off, or you're driving the bar into your skin. Or, you may just have really sensitive blood vessels at that point in your body.
I haven't had bruises on my arms or back, but my shins get them all the time from deadlifting. It seems that simply touching the bar against my shin produces a bruise, as does tracking the bar along the length of my leg. I'm not ramming the bar into my leg, so I don't know why this is. Anyone else get this?
I do tend to get bruises a decent amount. I went again and used a higher position and it seemed to do better. I don't quite follow what you mean by driving the bar. I'm trying to balance something more than I weigh on my back, the bar is trying to drive through my body more than anything.
I did get very lightheaded at the end of my 3rd set today, though. I had to rack and drop low to the ground (hanging onto the bar still) to recover. I also felt very lightheaded after mowing the lawn outside for 2 hours in the heat yesterday. I don't ever get that way even playing full court basketball when it's this hot, so it's very weird its happening. I've been having a lot more trouble breathing while squatting, and it might just be shortness of breath and not getting enough oxygen. I am trying to make an effort to breathe in and out at the top, although I mostly had been breathing in while going down and out at the top. I also felt like I was going to spew while squatting, but it was a bit after I ate a pretty large breakfast.