Critique my form *Videos*

[ExtraMile]

Not a fan of the deadlift video. There is no other way to move a deadlift then vertically along your center of gravity. The center of gravity is the middle of your foot. His method makes you move the bar horizontally.

if you move the bar back, it causes your shins to straighten up and in turn you to drop your hips way lower, often making the lift harder for people. If you look he pulls backwards slightly which would make it easier to incorperate the glutes and hips into the lift making for a stronger lockout too.

 

[zedhed]

Dude, thats why youre working out, to get BIG AND STRONG!! Dont worry about the weights that you are starting at. Just concern yourself (like you already are) with doing it right. You will be suprized at how fast you will build those weights up. Keep your diet RIGHT, keep your thoughts RIGHT and take good care of yourself and youre golden.
Keep up the good work!

Alright will defintaley lower the weight tomorrow, can't record the lifts though unfortunately =(

A question, answer honestly please. Is it normal that i can lift basically fucking nothing? Like i can hardly even squat my own weight, hardly even 100 pounds, and i can't bench my own weight or deadlift anything.... is it normal to be this much of a pussy? Considering my body figure.

 

[NJL52]

if you move the bar back, it causes your shins to straighten up and in turn you to drop your hips way lower, often making the lift harder for people. If you look he pulls backwards slightly which would make it easier to incorperate the glutes and hips into the lift making for a stronger lockout too.

Actually straightening your shins causes your hips to rise. Unless your shift your weight backwards.

And the goal of technique is never to make it easier, it's to make it safer. Easier is quarter squats, safer is below parallel. Same thing here.

Last, the main mover in a dead is your lower back.

Oh yea, there is no safe way to move 500 pounds parallel to the ground. No horizontal plane muscle chain can handle the load. The only movement chain for that much force is vertical. So you want the bar to move as vertical as possible, any horizontal movement would require swinging.