Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Deadlift video study= coaching opportunity
I got the opportunity to coach myself, and pick out weak points of certain moves. The deadlift is my all time favorite exercise, so I felt a certain type of way to note that my form was on the cusp of being garbage. Not hurt your back terrible but far from Austin. Now the lesson learned from this is that it's always a good idea to have some system of form or spot check to give you feed back that the signals that your body is sending you is actually a conformation of correct form and not a false positive. With the heavier loads it's not a safe idea to side mirror check with most exercises. There's a lot of nerves running through your neck and at close to maximal loads everything is firing so it's a good idea to keep all that gawking around at a minimum. In your warm up sets its a good opportunity to reset your form and ramp up from 100% form positive. A common practice for experienced lifters is to warm up with a empty bar on some exercises. Now as far as outside feed back is concerned. Make sure your getting it from someone who actually knows what good form looks like.This is a pretty important element in a potential spotter/ coach for a day. If your coaching yourself post action, be honest with yourself, and make the adjustments in form, focus load or whatever needs to be done the clean up that form and make in immaculate. In my case, I'm back to pulling with straps, and I'm totally cool with that.
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