EPTTL Health and Fitness Initiative 2013 - Page 117
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
If you can get someone to help with stretching your hamstring, my favorite is when you lie on the ground and have them push your leg. Do some contract/relax cycles and gain inches in flexibility right there. Also, hamstring floss + lacrosse ball pretty fantastic hamstring work. http://www.mobilitywod.com/2010/10/episode-58-weird-hamstring-problems-and-simple-neurodynmaics/ | ||
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FFGenerations
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phyre112
United States3090 Posts
As for the shoulders; plenty of powerlifters pull with rounded upper backs and shoulders. Shortens the distance you have to pull. Konstantinovs does it. but external rotation is a great thing for your posture, and you should try to do it throughout the day, not just when lifting. Try band pull-aparts and face pulls with a neutral or underhand grip to strengthen the related muscles, and then just add that to the rest of the things you cue yourself on when it comes to general posture. | ||
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Osmoses
Sweden5302 Posts
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decafchicken
United States20078 Posts
Just got back from first yoga session and wow. Could REALLY feel the imbalances and tightness, especially in my hips. Gonna keep going to the class once a week. I was surprisingly one of the more mobile people there even though my body constantly feels like it's not :p | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On September 12 2013 04:50 decafchicken wrote: I <3 the couch stretch. Just got back from first yoga session and wow. Could REALLY feel the imbalances and tightness, especially in my hips. Gonna keep going to the class once a week. I was surprisingly one of the more mobile people there even though my body constantly feels like it's not :p You do all that mobility work on your clients and heavily emphasize it yourself, idk how you could not be  Anyway, here's my 8th deadlift video. I feel like a lot of it is coming together. I did a shitty set before it (not completely terrible, but i learned from the mistakes I made on it) so this was a lot better. Hopefully the work I've been doing has been paying off. Those stretches seem awesome and I'm definitely going to do those tonight before I go to sleep. I think my knees weren't at as much of an angle as they could have been and my neck might have been a bit too far down (better than too far up I think), but other than that a lot of the back angle issues I had weren't as apparent. Anyway, you guys have been awesome for the help and the suggestions. Thanks so much ^_^ | ||
tofucake
Hyrule19161 Posts
I also suggest doing negatives instead of just dropping the bar, at least when you're not doing 1rm. | ||
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Cecil
United States368 Posts
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On September 12 2013 05:46 tofucake wrote: Best yet. You look soooooo much better than your first video. I also suggest doing negatives instead of just dropping the bar, at least when you're not doing 1rm. Haha, two conflicting ideas in this thread D: I'm not super confident in lowering the bar, but I'll continue to work on it. I have awful hamstring flexibility as I mentioned, so it's hard to bend forward and lower the bar without bending my knees. I'll continue to work on it. I really do appreciate all of your help, without it I don't know what I'd be doing. | ||
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tofucake
Hyrule19161 Posts
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On September 12 2013 05:59 tofucake wrote: Negatives are just doing the motion backwards. Nvm, thought you were just talking about the eccentric part as the negative, as in lowering the bar to the ground insterad of dropping it. I guess I just misunderstood. | ||
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Eufouria
United Kingdom4425 Posts
On September 12 2013 06:01 MtlGuitarist97 wrote: Nvm, thought you were just talking about the eccentric part as the negative, as in lowering the bar to the ground insterad of dropping it. I guess I just misunderstood. I'm pretty sure he does mean that, I was going to make the same suggestion. Lowering the bar is part of the deadlift, unless you're trying a 1 rep max and then it's safer to just drop it. But with a weight you can do a few reps of just go through the same actions you do to pick the bar up but do them backwards. I'd say the main thing people mess up on with the negative of a deadlift is bending their knees too early, but when you think about it when you're pulling at the start of a deadlift the first thing you do is open up the knee angle, so on the way down closing the knee angle should be the last thing you do. It's looking way better though, it seems like you're flexability has improved a ton from the first video. | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On September 12 2013 09:06 Snuggles wrote: Wow looking great Mtl, you're gonna make it bro. Think about buying a foam roll in the future. I just used a foam roll today straight after finishing deadlifts. It feels like heaven. When I didn't use it before I'd be sore for a good 5 minutes +, and I would cry. Having that soreness in your lower back pretty much makes the rest of of your workouts during the day feel terrible. Thanks, and happy birthday Snuggles! I really recommend a foam roller. I got a shitty one (you can probably see it in some of my videos, it's that gray Styrofoam looking thing) and it still feels amazing. The soreness goes away after a while, well...most of it, but you still feel really good. It feels amazing on your quads, back (especially your thoracic/lumbar cavity), glutes/piriformis, and if you can get it to hit your pecs, it feels good there also. I need my smaller weight plates to come soon. I can't keep progressing 10 lbs on the overhead press. I jumped to 75 lbs today, but the next plates I have are to 25 lb plates, definitely not going to hit that benchmark. | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
Kelly always says it better. | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
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autoexec
United States530 Posts
 Can't wait to get back to bigtime lifting after the season though. | ||
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GuiltyJerk
United States584 Posts
On September 12 2013 09:48 autoexec wrote: Haven't posted here in a while, but I got some prednisone prescribed for my back inflamation that I couldn't get over. Unfortunately I have missed 2 football games since I have been out, but we won both of them bigtime so it wasn't that bad. No game until next Friday so hopefully I can heal up fully and be good to go! Can't wait to get back to bigtime lifting after the season though. Glad to hear things are going better. You may have mentioned this before, but I forget, do you play in High School or College? | ||
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decafchicken
United States20078 Posts
Someone just kill me now | ||
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