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Old 07-14-2006, 07:23 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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Originally Posted by Flawed
although I think i am really sucking at deadlift form... never done it before and usually no one is at my gym to give me pointers... feeling alot of strain in my lower back... ill continue


A 5x5 might be a hard time to get the deadlift down. Should get better. One problem with learning form is that there are so many biomechanical factors in deadlifting and therefore many potential weak links. These can prevent you from utilizing good form no matter how honorable you intentions...your body is going to do what it has to do to compensate which can force you away from whatever is considered proper form.

I see you're doing hypers so obviously you may be considering that you lower back is weak and you obviously need to have strong spinal erectors to that's a good idea. But just because you are feeling it in your lower back doesn't mean your lower back is the problem (or all of it). Depending on where the back is taking over the load in the lift the problem could be in the hip flexors and hams or more specificallly the glutes and hams.

At this point it wouldn't hurt to consider putting in something like pull throughs, reverse hypers (with the emphasis on the glutes), maybe Romanian deads for support. Glute-Ham raises would be great but they may be a little much for this. It's just a thought. I'm sure the deads will feel better regardless given time.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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