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There's just so many things to think about when doing the deadlift; chest out, shoulders back, back straight, keep bar close to legs, straight arms, squeeze glutes, push the bar away from you. I'm finding it difficult to perform this exercise with correct form even though I know all these things. The bar is touching my legs all the way up, but Dan said that was right. I'm well and truly sick of people coming up to me in the gym and telling me I'm rounding my back, it happens every session, and yes I tell them I'm fine, it's just affecting my confidence now, because it happened again tonight when I lowered the weight by 20kg to stop the rounding. I'm at the stage now where I'm kinda dreading doing deadlifts at the gym. I just had a shower and cleaned my legs up; I have bruises from my shins all the way up to my knees, about 10 on each leg, knee ones are big. I just don't want bruises on the knees because they really hurt and it makes it hard to squat. I'll take your suggestion on board Rev and have a go with a broom tomorrow. Thanks for your help

I have no idea, I'm trying to stand up as soon as possible

Okay, I do set up like that now (legs straight and grab bar with arms straight) as Dan showed me that at ptc. Honestly I've spent hours watching online deadlift videos, they just confuse me more. Thanks Dan appreciate it

Hi Dan, thank you for trying to help me. How do I bend the upper back? I don't even know what that means How do I keep hips higher? Birds has dl videos, I deleted them

I'm hitting my knees coming up no matter if I do one set or ten. I was hitting them from the first set that's why my knee was bleeding by the end. I've posted here to try and figure out what I'm doing wrong and to work out how I can fix it because I'm very lost

Birds told me to drop the weight (which I did by 20kg) and do lots of reps and sets

14/08/13 Deadlifts 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 50kg x 10 Standing Shoulder Press 15kg x 10 15kg x 10 15kg x 10 20kg x 10 20kg x 10 20kg x 10 Seated Row 25kg x 10 25kg x 10 30kg x 10 35kg x 10 40kg x 10 45kg x 10 50kg x 4 Decline Bench 30kg x 10 30kg x 10 35kg x 10 35kg x 10 40kg x 10 45kg x 6 Wide Grip Lat Pulldown 35kg x 10 35kg x 10 45kg x 10 45kg x 10 55kg x 6 55kg x 5 Bicep Curls 10kg x 10 15kg x 10 15kg x 10 20kg x 4 20kg x 4 20kg x 4 20kg x 4

Lucky you! I just don't know what to do anymore

I can't really afford another $100 or I would

How do I raise the hip position? I'm hitting my knees on the way up I still had someone tonight telling me I'm rounding my back and I dropped the weight by 20kg I'm so frustrated it's really upsetting me

Okay now one knee is bleeding, what the hell am I doing wrong? So over deadlifts

No, I wasn't referring exactly to that article.

Can anyone help me as to why I'm constantly hitting my knees with the bar when dead lifting? Covered in bruises and in alot of pain right now

That has nothing to do with my comment. Obviously it's important to be attracted to your partner.

So fucking sick of the importance of looks.

I lol'd

I love you Birds

yeah sounds good, maybe do a poll about dates and stuff?

what do you have in mind?

So sexy!

4 hours a week

He's not here right now

My boyfriend eats 4 to 6 slices of bread a day and has an amazing six pack.

My boyfriend eats the small tin of tuna with crackers/toast as a snack all the time, so I consider it a snack. Natural peanut butter on toast/celery/carrot stick is a snack as you are not consuming more than a tablsepoon

high protein snacks off the top of my head: cottage cheese pumpkin seeds egg turrkey tofu chobani yoghurt tuna natural peanut butter/almond butter