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What would you recommend would be the best way to not  hurt your back when you are doing dead lifts?

DONT ROUND YOUR BACK!
 
keep the bar close to your body, keep your core tight and chest lifted
 
Pause at the bottom and make sure your form is spot on.
 
DO a few warm up set and work your way up to your working set
 
make sure to fully extend on the way up (core tight shoudlers back,
 
 

Laura nailed it I am goin to go ahead and add a few more things.
Before lifting make sure your setup is sqaure feet flat and angled out around 30 degrees and you have your upper back pulled tight with shoulders back before you even grab the Bar. Once you set up as laura said keep your back straight and actualy sit back before begining the lift. Last but not least never look down. Thanks Butch

thanks Laura that is very helpful, do you recommend me wearing a back belt?

really never look down, well my bad because Ihave done that lots of times…

No to the belt unless you are in excess of 80%1RM. And never look down Butch

Thanks for your tips Butch1!! we missed you! were have you been???
 
 
How is training going???

Thanks for your concern work has been crazy among other things.
 
    Training is going nuts right now. Everyone is performing very very well. With the Clement meet 2 weeks away I am happy to say I may be taking 20-25 of my children to compete. So the first of august look for new videos and storys of many Personal records being broke. And with APF states only a month away this will be a good meet for me to see any problems before the big one.
Butch

awesome wade! we look forward to it!

oh good to know thank you butch, just got back from vacation, so Im back to training hard…

oh good to know thank you butch, just got back from vacation, so Im back to training hard…

I have been noticing that when I have been doing squatts after working out my right knee has been starting to bother me. When im laying down at night to go to sleep I can feel a sharp pain at times.
Would that be from not keeping my knees out?

 Sounds like your position is incorrect try watching some squat videos. Or reading some articles on westsidebarbell.com. Most people have this problem because of positioning you need to put most of the stress into the hips. stand straight put your feet a little past shoulder with apart turn your feet 15-20 degrees to the outside of your body. Now using light weight set up on the bar head up and sit back with it. a good way to learn the hips is to box squat because it forces you(when done properly) to sit back which causes the hips to fire first to get you back up. there are box squat videos on muscledog.
Butch

 
WADE!! Awesome explanation!!!! My knee sometimes bothers me but it goes away… I think it’s from sprinting or not warming up properly… i feel it most when i do backward barbell lunges…
 
 
Thanks for the tips… You have to be really careful with your knee… it could be soooo many different things… bad form, tight or weak hamstrings, tight or week back. Weak or undeveloped quads… ect…
 
Just make sure you are warmed up and take and take your time working to towards your working set…
 

Thank you I will check out this video,, I would really like to get back into squatts… My knee is better since I have rested it for a few days.

I haven’t tried backward barbell l;unges. I may give that a try, and will watch the video Wade mentioned….

This is a muscledog video for a backwards lunge.. he is using dumbells but you should try a barbell

DO you do any other back excerises besides deadlift?

Of course!! pull ups, chin ups, bent over rows, straight are ext., bent over barbell row, seated rows, lat pull downs, low/high cable rows.. there are sooo many different back exercises.. i do them all!!

Yes i do lots of other stuff… Squatts, lat pulls, core workout, lots of swimming, which is great for your body too.  I did try the backward lunge , I can really feel that too.

the backward lunge is lots of fun, need to have good balance…

haha i dont know if i woudl say that backwards lunge is alot of fun lol but i feel it for sure.. I really reel like it targets my glutes and inner thighs You definitlely need good balance..
 
 
Have you ever tried a single leg squat with no wieght?? that are super hard

did you mean a single leg squat with no weight? I think that is what you meant. No I haven’t but I love challenging myself to new things so I will try and let you know how I liked it or didn’t like it…

its reallly great! thats what i meant sorry for the spelling.. get a short box squat and squat down with one leg.. super hard! make sure to go slow and sit down lightly or you can really hurt yourself