Guys I need serious help. I took my pre workout. It's kicking in and I'm stuck in the parking lot of the YMCA consoling my Girlfriend because she hit a cat on the way to the gym.

She already canceled karaoke which is totally fine by me but she doesn't know if she can lift. How the fuck do I get my lift in? What do I have to say to get the fuck out of the car and get into the squat rack?

I'm starting to get itchy and I need to take a shit from all this caffeine. Please help!

Girlfriend asked me to come over and help put her new bed together. What she thought was going to happen, was her watching me slap the thing together.

What actually happened was me holding her hand through the project while she actually put it together. A few complicated parts, I obliged her pleas. Otherwise she did 70% of it herself under my supervision.

She hated it. I loved it. She lost her cool, I kept mine. Pretty sure she called me an ass hole a few times, definitely said I was being mean.

There was a little extra energy on her end while we were taking it for a test drive later last night.

All and all I think we both enjoyed the experience. I learned she takes direction well and she confirmed I know how to lead the blind.

@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.

@Kloi

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

@SeasonedRP

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.

@Kloi Your low back might not be arched enough. My cues for starting the pull are to pull the slack out of the bar and squeeze my glutes together.

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?

Running two hours late to work.

Decided to throw a hail marry by stopping at Starbucks to grab myself one and my supervisor an overpriced, over dressed coffee.

While waiting for them, about a dozen women from 20-35 come and go.

All of them are attractive in the face, most of them dressed well enough but they were all slightly over weight by 15-30lbs.

Now I could help but to think bitches, if you'd just skip your 300cal coffee all week, you'd all be more attractive for it.

@Kloi

It's bad out there there are lot of n00bs not actualizing mere lines of knowledge like "women think emotionally not logically" and other remarkably basic one liners that don't require any further thought to get started

@Vermillion-Rx

Knowledge is not power, actualized knowledge is powerful.

Most people honestly know what they should be and shouldn't be doing, putting it into action is where almost all fall short.