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@Kloi What I've found, which is consistent with experiences of many other lifters, is that it's good to leave a little in the tank when doing sets on the big 3 or similar movements. For example, if your routine on squat calls for you to do a top set of five, don't choose a weight where you have to grind out the last rep or two and barely complete the set-choose a weight where you can cleanly get all five reps and one or two more. Some use a concept called "RPE" (rate of perceived exertion) to express how hard a particular set should be; I've always though in terms of percentages and do the bulk of work on the big 3 at around 80% of max for multiple sets of 2-3.
If you are going to failure on your sets of OHP and incline db presses, you might try leaving a few reps in the tank and see how that works.
Read MoreOhh and im deadlifting bodyweight without pain again so that's nice.
Welp I've hit another plateau across most of my pushing lifts. Been stalling on 70lb OHP and 80lb incline (DBs) so I'm going to try and run A and B days and see if I can't get past this stall.
Doing some other work on rest days to strengthen the corresponding tendons and shit since I've been having minor pain sporadically.
Will update in 2 months.
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insides*stitches footage from other people's videos a lot
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@Kloi www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ieuEnlIEV4. Here's a pretty good overview of deadlift technique. The part about bracing might be especially helpful. The guy demonstrating is a 900 lb puller, which is insane for his body weight (or any body weight). There's also a bench press video of the crew at this gym benching, and they are quite impressive. The weakest one is the Asian guy, who paused 429 for 3 reps. The other guy paused 463 for 5 reps then hit an easy single with 562, and another guy with them paused 518 for a single.
How to get glute activation with deadlift?
Check out SquatUniversity on YouTube
I could have sworn I saw a recent short from him about this, but I haven't been able to dig it back up
It must be in there somewhere
Even if I'm mistaken or he's taken it down (he insides footage from other people's videos a lot, so possible copyright hit), his content is well worth watching
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I'm going to grease the groove by deadlifting almost every lift day, albeit just a plate.
I've got some hip flexor issues that are being addressed and swapped from conventional to somewhere in between that and summo which seemed to help with the lower back.
I dont want to call it pain but that's where I mainly feel the lift at this point in my life.
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How to get glute activation with deadlift?
Yes I'm googling it, yes I can link a video later this weekend.
My hamstrings just always seem to take over, even with RDL after I took a few years off from the gym.
Even then was pulling 3 plates, upon reflection, I always felt it more in my lower back.
Hips would be my guess, not going back far enough. Anyone go through similar problems and how did you practice/fix the issue?
Swapped out my typical, pre lift cardio for more dynamic movements.
Think bike/treadmill for rowing/playing catch off the wall with a medicine ball.