Balding deadlift

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[u/LuckyBucky77]

All back, no legs. You look like you were about to setup properly, and then your hips shoot up which causes your chest to be almost parallel with the ground.

Your position at ~12 seconds was pretty good.

You want to lock out your hips at the same time as your knees. If your knees lock out instantly (because your hips shoot), it forces your back to do all the work.

[u/AEROK13]

No breathing and bracing, almost all lower back because not incorporating leg drive by pulling the slack out of the bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhpOmdc1Udw&t=58s

[u/MRicci → u/AEROK13]

This was really helpful. Thanks.

[u/insurplus]

when u get into ur final lifting position, it looks like that belt is doing pricisely nothing.

ur lower back looks rounded, u try to get into a nice positon then things round again..

to me it looks like your legs are so extended you have now power to drive up and as such its the back or arms being used.

i would prefer to see move of a squat down so you have some explosiveness underneath you.

perhaps put the weights on a plate to make it higher.. and work on your flexibility.

[u/IsawitinCroc]

Bro u may be balding but I'd never pick a fight with u.

[u/ibleed0range]

Your set up looks off. You aren’t locking out and because you can’t drop your butt to get the bar back towards your shoulders you are lifting entirely with your back. Something that really helped my flexibility was doing pendlay rows with 25lb plates because the bar sits lower to the ground it forces you to go lower while controlling the weight. You need to be able to lift your butt up without moving forward and then drop it back down when setting your back before you lift.

[u/BallSoHard42069]

A good way to practice your form is to take a dumbbell or kettlebell and practice deadlifting with that. It should start on the ground about mid-foot and move up and down in a straight line. Your hinge with a barbell should feel about the same.