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Old 01-10-2008, 03:42 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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I didn't notice your hips rising first in the vid, at least.

One thing I think I saw, but it's hard to tell, is the bar position changing. It looked like during the warm-up you had the bar about as low as it could possibly and then I noticed later it seemed to be set a little higher in more of a neutral position (not that high or low). I'm also going by the fact that you started out with more of a forward torso position in the beginning set and you were more upright in the later ones. I attribute that to changes in bar position. Subtle changes in bar position have a big effect so if you notice this to actually be true make sure you pick on position and stick with it. Lower bar will mean more forward torso.

For the caving over, it may also help to get your hands in as close to the bar as possible. I can see that you are not doing that extremely wide hand placement but at the same time the more you can get your hands in and the elbows more forward the easier it is to keep the chest up (also, of course, stick the chest up in the first place). Do what you can with that advice I don't expect you to do things with your hands that are just not possible for you.

Also, and I seem to mention this to everyone, try to control the descent just a bit more. When you get to the heavy stuff, if you drop to fast, you are expending more effort decelerating the bar which makes it extremely difficult to work on anything else.

Lastly, your set-up is a little bit akward. You're doing widestance but that doesn't mean you need to get up under the bar initially this way. Can be a bit iffy for the knees to actually walk the bar back in that position and I don't like the look of your feet not being underneat you more when you unrack the bar. Try to get the bar up with a more neutral stance and then step back into your working stance in as few movements as possible.

P.S. this was all meant for Marv. I somehow didn't realize it was Hit who made the comment.
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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.

Last edited by EricT; 02-06-2008 at 06:33 AM.
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