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Thanks Rev, I'll keep working on it. I'm new to it so I'm surprised it's not stellar. Good pickup, for some reason I keep looking at my left hand to make sure my arms are by my sides and I'm pulling the bar up evenly/straight. Odd habit. I'll have a play with it all and take some more clips so you guys can crush my already non existent confidence in the motion Appreciate the help.

I think you're right, the main strain I feel is in the quads and while it's light weigh compard to where I should be, It's not light weight for my actual strength in that motion unfortunately. By raising my hips higher, that means less leg drive and more lower back work yes? That idea scares me a bit with my back how it is right now, but I can take some weight off and experiement. Honestly, I was thinking of it more as a leg exercise with lower back as secondary so that shows the wrong mindset anyway. Cheers, as above, looks like my approach to why I was doing this was wrong, I'll try hips higher and letting the back do the work, I imagine I will have to drop a ton of weight off it, I just don't get why my back in particular is so damn weak. Well, no work on it, sitting all day etc, I get it, but it shits me .

Here's a demo After watching this I thought I was pulling with my arms so kept my back straighter so I couldn't bend at the arms and used them as hooks. http://youtu.be/0rinu1OH59Q

Just got this from Brad, still one diagonal to go and obviously some paint and she's done. I'll post pics when I get the completed item and when it's installed to show fitment.

Lunch wasn't filling enough, had double cheesburger with chips on it...

I pulled them as they were the 30kg ezy bar ones and not indicative of what I'm doing now . I can make new ones and embarrass myself some more. Maybe tomorrow night. Good to hear those things, as I'm doing some of them.

Appreciate it, but will pass. Quicker for me to chat with my BB mate around the corner or pay and go see Laurie than wait til the next DECA and look like a goose doing imaginary DLs on the skidpan

No doubt. Just making sure I had the names right so I didn't say something inappropriate like oh is this that gym were those druggos got done... At $70 for a one hour session, it pays for itself if it stops me doing an injury and having to go back to paid osteo etc, I'll look into it.

That guy I know. Wasn't it him or his missus who got done for band substances? My memory is hazy on it so sorry if I have it wrong.

Markos what do you find is the issue for new comers to DL? Flexibility? Form? Weakness from lack of experience in the the move etc?

Wodonga on the VIC/NSW border.

The advice is sound though and I'll have a chat with another mate of mine on the weekend who's shorter, lighter, and a shed load stronger (training bodybuilder so looks matter more than numbers but still).

I should clarify, I feel I can definitely add squat weight but I do so very slowly to allow my back and ankle to keep pace. DL's yeah I probably 'could' add weight but form would suffer. If I had to think about it, I probably feel "weakest" in my back, my quads get busy during the motion and I feel a good burn in there, but it's my back that I'm focusing on the most. Probably doesn't help that I sit all day and have done for my working life so far.

6hr round trip? Pass

I didn't want to flood the DL thread with my questions so I'll dump it here. As a an absolute virgin to deadlifting before about, 2mths ago, I've really struggled with the idea/form etc. I started at 30kg (same for squats) on an ezy bar as I only had a standard 6ft bar and I was too lazy to take the weights off it from bench, now I have a rack and a 7ft bar. I've been making only very small increases as my back has been a bit iffy along the way due to pelvis alignment and stability issues from breaking my leg/dislocating my ankle. So I've been working on that with a physio, jogging daily and made squatting and deadlifting a part of my routine to get my legs and back solid - my old routine used to be pretty much all upper body work as you guys will remember. I now deadlift a stunning 60kg for 3x8 (squat is currently 66) I feel like I could add some weigh to the squat without too much drama but the dead feels like slower progress and much harder work. After 3 sets I have a good puff, nothing else taxes me the same way so I'm guessing it's a combo of doing it wrong, poor strength in required areas from having only just started to get into it, and being over cautious with my lower back which has proven that if I don't treat it properly it will jam up on me like last week. If I had a question, it would be why am I so shit at squat/dl when I see people much lighter squat and DL literally 3 times the amounts. Is it simply that because I've only just started out I don't have a great foundation? Am I just inherently weak in that area? to be fair, I'm not overly strong in any direction and my bench is probably only half OK because I favoured it for so long (repping 96kg at the moment, will up that to 100kg shortly and just leave it there, no idea what 1RMs are, not interested). Pretty sure Leesh out squats and out deads me, good for her, not so much for my pride

I thought macros were for people wanting to be more efficient in Excel =\

God, I love you TTT. No homo.

That's pretty good, the sets thing. I've wondered about moving to lower reps and more sets but I think, for me at least, sticking to my tried and tested 3x8 gets me enough results and prevents me getting carried away with weight too quickly so everything has a chance to catch up before I add weight if you get me. But to be fair, I'm not strong in any direction so I'm pretty easily impressed by other peoples achievements!

For what it's worth, that aspect of things does get a bit better over time. Though admittedly, I still get a bit paranoid sometimes about being too skinny and I've come a fair way from 65kg. Hard to shake the old attitudes sometimes.

I'm with Mitch. Winter = awesome food and less f**ks given for ab definition and being vascular and all that

Jogged my morning walk, 1.95k in 11ms30secs lol not exactly a blistering oace but I've never ran fast, especially at 6:30am. I'm only just warming up by the end of it. Ankle feels OK, good given she did a number on it yesterday. See how it goes tonight during gym. On the jogging front my aim is probably to get back to morning 3k jogs on the old route which includes a fairly decent 30-40m ascent.

Shit I meant yeah SQUAT

You never fail to deliver Birds, Man you make me laugh I'd love to sink some beers with you, for a number of reasons I think you'd be good value. Maybe DECA one time? I love it when people dismiss an opinion contrary the their own as strawman tactics. "Oh they just don't get what I'm on about so they're attacking this aspect or that, but that's not what I really meant" as if there's no possible way others could disagree if they only understood. Surely if someone misunderstands it must be intentional, especially on a forum where we have the richness of text to convey a message. Body language and intonation are pretty overrated. Our of curiosity, how old are you Birds? Not a loaded question, you just remind me of myself at a certain age and I'm curious. Rev, yeah agreed on pretty much all fronts and by and large I actually agree with BIrds opinion on how to go about eating. Just not so much the delivery or the idea that one size fits all (not that he was actually saying either of those things as we can't be sure what strawman I might have created).

I have no idea why it rotates the image when you post it on the phone. Anyway, I do not rate this cheese. Coles Brie is much better than Aldi Brie.