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Workout Technique Woes
CheBourgeoisNoir
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So I haven't checked into the PA health and fitness thread in awhile, which has apparently been supplanted by the diet & weightloss thread in D&D, so I suppose this goes here? :
I'm trying to get back into the gym with the remainder of my summer, and I'm running a 5x5 workout adapted from the Rippetoe Starting Strength program. A couple of the exercises are fairly out of the norm, though, so I'm unsure of my form.
1.) Deadlifts - today was my first workout with these today, and I just wound up scrapping my sets entirely. I'm just not really understanding them - I've got my feet under the bar, and I get that you should be lifting with your back, pressing in with your feet to engage it, but I just didn't feel it at all in my back, and meanwhile I was hurting the hell out of the instep (I think? The outer inside edge of my foot). I could have done more weight easily, but I think my form or my foot positioning was ruining it. I'm pretty badly bowlegged + badly collapsed arches + bad ankles...What should I be doing?
2.) Military press - Is it appropriate to wind up with the bar directly above your head, or are you supposed to keep it out a bit in front of you at all times, even when your arms are fully extended for max vertical?
Thanks all
I'm trying to get back into the gym with the remainder of my summer, and I'm running a 5x5 workout adapted from the Rippetoe Starting Strength program. A couple of the exercises are fairly out of the norm, though, so I'm unsure of my form.
1.) Deadlifts - today was my first workout with these today, and I just wound up scrapping my sets entirely. I'm just not really understanding them - I've got my feet under the bar, and I get that you should be lifting with your back, pressing in with your feet to engage it, but I just didn't feel it at all in my back, and meanwhile I was hurting the hell out of the instep (I think? The outer inside edge of my foot). I could have done more weight easily, but I think my form or my foot positioning was ruining it. I'm pretty badly bowlegged + badly collapsed arches + bad ankles...What should I be doing?
2.) Military press - Is it appropriate to wind up with the bar directly above your head, or are you supposed to keep it out a bit in front of you at all times, even when your arms are fully extended for max vertical?
Thanks all
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I like Mark Rippetoe's deadlift videos here.