Thread: Deadlifting Mistakes (Also: How To Fix Your Deadlift)

Oldie but a goodie! T-mag has some great stuff!

True dat. Anything by Dave Tate should be treated like gospel for people aspiring to lift big.

Thanks for the article, SF! It reinforced a lot of things I'm doing right, and taught me how to breathe when doing deads.

Great article SF! Just what I needed to learn to fix my deadlifting form!!

Good article SF! Thank you. I actually hurt my lower back the other day doing deadlifts.. too heavy I believe. I am gonna lay off them for a week or two.

Damn dude, that's a great article.....I may have been guilty of several mistakes listed.

I hope it helps. It was the best thing I ever read for my deadlift.

Also, to really capitalize on the article, have someone watch you (I volunteer to watch Sapphire ) and critique you constantly. They will find things you don't and it will help immensely.

Hey SF,
Appreciate the article. It occurred to me that one of the things that I'm doing wrong is looking down, AND apparantly training heavy too often, so I'll work on periodizing. I read another article by Josh Bryant http://www.joshstrength.com/test/routine.htm that suggested doing plyometrics to improve explosive strength, so I will incorporate those as well.
-Dan

Definitely. Add some plyo work to your DE day, and mix up the ME lift on ME days. Don't ever do the same ME lift in a month, is a good rule. Always change it up. Either by changing stances, ROMs, something to fool the CNS. Hope the article helped, and best of luck!

I have to say that when I read it I thought wow that makes alot of sense, but I couldnt see that much difference. Some failure I had in that were that I was :
1) Doing it for reps. - and as stated in the article, my form was slumping at the end of the set. So I set down stood up then went back and got it again effectively doing 8 sets of 1. I could feel the difference already
2) Rounding shoulders - I always kept my back ram rod straight, or as best I could by the end of the set. This seemed to take some of the pressure of my shouldersby allowing them to round out a bit
3) Holding the breath in the belly. This is crazy how much a difference this makes

By the end of it all and just following the "right" way of doing it I went from 285 to 315 comfortably. I had already done more than normal for sets on DL's so I wasnt going to push it anymore, but I am sure I could have got 335 out. While not alot by many standards here. I am excited about this. Thanks Saturday for posting the article.

Great! A 30lb increase is incredible.

That 'form' thing that everyone talks about must truly mean something .... go figure