you are 1 strong mofo (moon walking with 400 pounds barbell... MJ, beat that!!! oh wai.....)

brah, you wouldnt believe how light i train... my body just responed well to training... tats it...

i just dont get the hip drive. is it you move you hip up first? if like that, you will use alot of your back muscle when lifting the weigh up into straight position. Why do you need to do hip drive?

I notice there is some difference to mikehuan squat between 80 and 100kg. the 100kg position, i can see that at 100kg squat, his lower leg is straighter or nearer to pependicular compare to floor. which is better

your the meso+endo guy... a very good platform to start with...

im the ecto+ecto guy .... i have to do twice the work u did....

I didn't get it at first either. But that hip drive helps involve the hamstrings into the movement, which in turn means more power to shoot you out of the hole. It fixed my weakest spot of the exercise, which was getting out of the hole. Your lower back would give out first before anything else, from my experience.. so squats isn't a primarily leg exercise, more to lower body.

One of the key things to look at during squat is your knees should not go past your toes, so imo I got better there.

I just got the best idea of a meme for razor. Anyone knows how to do meme'?
"Moonwalking with 400lbs"
"Like a boss!"

dark dont squat anymore due to back injury

I am a hamstring dominant guy
I dont get much quads from squats if comare with hips
i dont really go ATG but just go deeper than 90 thats all

am sticking with hack squats and sissy squat
hits my quads pretty well 

actually
there is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRUZQYh4cEs

thanks, dan!

razor what you did was unsafe IMO. ROM. To short for even a partial and the jerking near the top. You're asking for injury.

come to think of it, partial deadlifts kinda bypasses your body's built in safeties right? if you use straps you're lifting more than your grip allows; and lifting it up from a rack allows you to skip the concentric movement of a deadlift, which means you could use WAY heavier weight than you can handle.  your back wont get the brunt of the weight until the time you actually bend your hips.

am i making sense or is this pure nonsense? genuinely curious..

I think you made complete sense. Besides all the big muscle groups which gets the attention, the smaller muscles, joints all work together to provide a full ROM. In my opinion, its always better to train the whole movement and natural ROM as thats how we are meant to move. Just as a personal choice, I dont use straps or belts as well and work with weights that naturally my body can handle in squats / deadlifts. I think this will allow the weaker smaller muscle to catch up eventually, and overall giving you signal that its time to up the weights. My 2 cents 

eh you suck it in ? i thought keeping your core tight means exerting pressure against your abdominal wall, or pushing it out

Only so much your core can handle. I always use a belt when i deadlift and squat. It does tighten the midsection which allows your body to maintain the arch and no buckle your lower back. From the video you posted (180kg i think), you look like you were already struggling to keep your form steady. Another reason for that might be because you are doing partial lifts. Maybe a full deadlift would look different in the video. I'm not very familiar with the bb approach for a partial deadlift, but from a strength perspective, you might need to lower the weights and do a full deadlift because form is terrible and you might bust your lower back in no time.

Just a thought

S

You're correct, it's the same. Note that these are pretty old videos. Some more than 1-2 years ago. For example:-

405lbs x 8


I don't have the video of my deadlifting 525lbs but my form was damn near perfect. This is another old one when i was not as strong, a bit jerky sorry.
This is 475lbs. Quite easy.


And this is a warm up video of me deadlifting 315lbs x 10


So razorboy, don't be discouraged, I'm telling you cos i don't want you to end up with a f***ed up injury. My problem was NOT my form but my ego, i attempted 525 x 3 when 2 reps was enough.

get out to buy gatorade? lol

I take an extended breather, maybe like 5-10 minutes. Then it's back to squeezing out what I can before calling it a day. If my body isn't up to it, no point forcing the issue.

I don't do negs on deadlifts. Sounds like you're deadlifting more than you can handle.