Bloody shins when deadlifting

[Sunder]

I don't remember hurting my shins on deadlifts. But my thighs and forarms are blood-red on extreme lifts. I understand the thighs, as the gnarling scrapes by them, but I had a hard time figuring out the inner forearms. I think it was because they scraped by weightbelt.

LOL - first time I did it, I thought I popped a blood vessel.
Have to admit, after the rush of completing a heavy lift, the look and feel of the thigh/forearm burns spiked me up like an wild animal.

Now I'm a pussy and do less weight on deads (more reps, probably better form). It's less impressive looking to me...

AS FOR YOU - I'm not qualified to give training technique advice, but maybe you're lifting with your back too early and not your legs? My knees are over the bar at the start, but my knees usually are clear of the bar (or slide/bump) in the middle.

Maybe try practising with less weight until you get the form you want? I've been doing that with the timing of my Olympic lifts...

 

[coolcolj]

I've seen some oly lifters stick a strip of medical bandage tape running along the shins in comps, its an idea

Otherwise just wrap something around the bar

 

[JOKER47]

I had the same problem until B-Fold mentioned to step about 3-5 inches away from the bar when you pull. The movement should be more of pulling "BACK" rather than "UP" (This also helped alleviate some of the form issues I had with my ass coming up to soon in the lift.)

What I do, is drop my butt, and pull back towards my knees. My thighs and knees to take a bit a beating, but this has helped reduce to eliminate the scraping on my shins.

Watch some of the videos that B-Fold has posted of him deadlifting. That helped me visualize this idea very well.


.02,
Joker

 

[Thaibox]

When I deadlifted, I took advantage of it and drug the shit out of my shins as another way of conditioning them. Works well, but I've got lots of red topped socks now