5x5 Deadlifts!

You have this set as private not unlisted. Means we can't watch it. If you use advanced post you can embed the video which makes things even easier for us lazy folk.
 
I did it from my phone. I figured something would be wrong with it. This one should be better..

[video=youtube_share;ja_3PToioD4]http://youtu.be/ja_3PToioD4[/video]
 
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Leg day is apparently Monday now, so I appreciate sitting at a desk for work that much more.

Squat Warm Up - 135x8
Squats - 235x5x5 - 255x3x5
Dead Lift Warm Up - 145x8
Dead Lift - 235x5x5
Power Clean - 145x5x5

When I type it out, it doesn't look like a lot, but that combination puts a crazy toll on my body. I have to squeeze out that last set of cleans. I was debating on doing a shorter, heavier set of deads, but since I do my "real" deads on back day, I figured I would stick with a medium weight when doing them after squats.
 
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Videos make me happy. I see some arm-bending there, though. Don't pull the bar off the floor: leg press the floor away from you and try to keep as much distance as possible between your shoulders and the bar.
 
I was using a Hammer grip because when doing medium weight deads, I like to put a little pressure on my bi's. I'll use an alternate grip when I'm going heavy so I don't tear anything. That was also the fourth set of deads I did, so I was probably cheating a bit because of the squats I did previously and the three sets of deads before that. I should have filmed the first set I did. It probably looked much better. The cleans I did after the squats and deads were trash, form-wise. The 255x3x5 set of squats were out of my normal routine too. I could have stopped after the 5x5, but I felt like I had a little more.

How do you mean "keep as much distance as possible between your shoulders and the bar" though?
 
Arm bending was one thing I noticed. Few other bits but your effort was better than mine from week before last.
Knees and hips are always bent or appear to be, this can be a matter of choice but I tend to try straightening them competition style. Hips not straightening or hyper extending actually means more pressure is staying on your back.
You are struggling to get everything pulling at the same time, snap at the moment. I think this is due to you being concerned about damaging yourself but is something to fix if you can.

Correcting to push into floor rather than pull up with arms would solve the only other possible critique which was bounce from floor. All of us have done that and I probably stil do on occasion. It will also help you overcome your height.

There is a saying about people in glass houses, but that camera angle was ironic. You are already tall, so having the phone on the floor only emphasised, but wathcing it made me feel seriously Lilliputian.
Really good stuff there
 
I never bounce off the floor. I was just rolling through those. The weights at my gym, as you can see in the video, aren't perfectly round, so when you come to a complete stop on the floor, most of the time you half to readjust your self because the bar shifts from a flat spot hitting the floor on a different angle. That's the only thing I don't like about my new gym. I miss the perfectly round weights.
 
Go for quality as you guys have half convinced me I should at least try dead lifts so I will be watching form carefully to get a clue...
 
Not keen on the octagonal weights, used them at one place and found the spin on the bar meant would often touch down unevenly one flat and the other on corner.
I have critiqued you and Goldie and pulled things that were just my interperetation now. I tend to mention anything I see or think I do in case it's an issue. Preferring that to possibility of missing something important. Comes in part from power lifting training for so long where form was priority 1 in order for lifts to count.

Look forward to next installment.
 
I can't stand the octagonal weights. Too much having to shift. I definitely need to be critiqued though. The video I posted probably wasn't the best example of how I really dead, though. I might combine back with chest today and get a decent video of some deads. I'll see how much I feel like doing tonight.
 
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I did decide to wreck myself yesterday, but I didn't get a chance to dead lift.

Incline Bench Warm Up - 135x8
Incline Bench - 165x5x5
Reverse Grip Bench - 120x5x5
Dumb Bell Incline Bench - 120x5x5
Precor Row Warm Up - 180x8
Precor Row - 270x5x5
Precor Pull Down - 270x3x5
Incline Dumb Bell Fly - 90x5x5
Pendlay Row - 185x3x5
Barbell Row - 135x3x5

I don't think I'm going to make it back to the gym until Monday, so I went ahead and wrecked myself yesterday. I managed to do this in an hour. It was pretty intense. I would have liked to have gotten some deads in, but there was two other guys there deading and chatting the entire time I was there, and I didn't feel like carrying weights across the gym and using time I didn't have. Maybe I can get in Saturday for a session of just deads. We'll see. Still a good session though.
 
That's a ridonculous amount of volume to fit into an hour. I'm always amazed by people who can do more than 1 set every 5 min. I tried being one of those people this training cycle...lasted about 3 weeks.
 
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That's a ridonculous amount of volume to fit into an hour. I'm always amazed by people who can do more than 1 set every 5 min. I tried being one of those people this training cycle...lasted about 3 weeks.
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One thing I've never had a problem with is stamina. I'm good for a solid hour. Anything longer, I would have had a issue.
 
My schedule is all screwed up this week. I'm working night shift yesterday and tomorrow, and day shift today. My office is actually moving now, so there's a million things going on. I'm going to try to get legs tomorrow morning before I come in to work, but the quality of my morning sessions is no where near as good as my afternoon sessions, so we'll see how much I can do.
 
Morning is the only time for me - I don't know how you guys do what you do after work. I just want to go home and crash - I'm almost too stupid to live, let alone move weights around.
 
I am not much different. Probably explains some of the stupid things I do.
 
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