re: Should I stop Deadlifting

I’m trying, but I’m slipping at certain points. I know that and that’s why I don’t blame the lift as many people tend to with injury. I know I’m at fault. Yesterday I over extended the lockout on rep 2/2 @ 345. I got caught in the moment feeling confident.

Trying to brace, I’ve slowed down my rep cadence to focus. I believe hips are appropriate position. Been working on trying to keep my head level and forward vs looking up so much. I’ve tightened up my body from previous errors.

I’ve had a coach who’s a husband of a work friend critique form and help out with ques and that’s made a big difference. Did that after an injury and a cool off before starting back deadlifting again.

I do enjoy deadlifting, not sure it’s an ego thing as much as I just like fixed targets. 405 would put me just a hair below 2.5x body weight. I just compete with myself. There’s guys in my gym pulling 600+ that are mammoths of pure muscle, and probably roids. I’ll never be that and don’t want to, just like to push myself. I use targets for motivation and to see progress.

Ideally I’m working to a happy medium of strength relative to my size and building muscle. I’m also running 3x a week with a similar drive, I’m not winning races and don’t care - just want to improve myself.

If I don’t see progress in the form of reps or weight, frankly, I’m gonna get nervous I’ll quit, gain weight back, and go back to serious anxiety. Lifting has helped me lose 50 lbs, keep it off, greatly improve my health markers (blood work, bp, etc), gotten me off an SSRI, and off of BP med. I’m a hot and cold person, I’m either all in or dgaf so I constantly keep myself fighting that battle to stay hot on lifting and running (added running during covid when they closed the gym for a month).