re: Daily Strength Check-In

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I’m a bad deadlifter, and I also attribute it to long torso, plus short arms. Or whatever reason I can never seem to extend my back at the start of a heavy deadlift. But I keep dropping weight trying to get it right.

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The long torso is just weird for DL. When I get my back in shoulders in the right position my posterior is too low, which caused a hamstring injury in late fall. When my posterior chain is in a good position the bar swings away from my legs and my back takes too much of the load.

I want to mess with sumo to see if it’s better for my body, but that’s a whole new set of technical data to process.

I’m with you though. 50 seems like a good jumping off point, unless I end up injuring my back.