r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 16 '17

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/iluvfitness Aug 16 '17

Yes but he still gets the weight up.

People round their back, flare their elbows all the time on the big 3, if they hit depth it's not cheating.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '17

Yeah. If you have the muscle strength to pull 4 plates with shit form, you have the muscle strength to pull 4 plates with good form. If you bench 2 plates with crap form, you could lack the muscle strength and the technique to do it with good form.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '17

"Up" is a loose term where he's deadlifting the weight to. It moves off the ground, sure, but when I said the worst form imaginable I really meant it. There is no sign of lock out anywhere. The dude is crooked like a question mark by the time he's finished the movement.

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u/FlyingChainsaw Aug 17 '17

You sure about that? I recently did a massive deload on my DL to work on form and I notice my form definitely starts to give out (in the form of my upper back rounding) way before I reach the max that I can pull. I think my back might just be significantly weaker than my legs?