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Anonymous
Post your weight and height along with your bodytype (are you tall and thin or short and stubby, what's your build). As for proper posture/procedure: You want to begin with your shins close or touching the barbell with a shoulder width or slightly beyond stance. You want to always look forward or up, never down. The reason for this is because if you look down you will likely round your back inviting injury to fuck your fucking spine up, damn it. So, we avoid this by looking slightly up at a spot on the wall, as you go down to grip the barbell you want to push your butt back as far as possible. This is the proper form for squatting too, it loads your hamstrings and glutes and let's you lift more while making sure you don't bang your knees on the way up. While keeping your head up you have to learn how to an even grip on the barbell (olympic barbells are almost required for deadlifts imo) by finding that smooth line in the rough area on the barbell. Make sure you are still looking up (keeps the arch in your back), butt back, and squeeze all your muscles, then stand up, DO NOT PULL, stand. If you pull with your arms you will fuck up your form and you won't train the muscles you should be training. Keep the bar close to you and stand up, your biceps and triceps will get a damn good isometric contraction in the higher weights because you lock them out. Flexing your triceps before standing will help make sure you don't pull with your arms. The best setup for me for deadlifting is an olympic barbell with atleast 45's on the bar for proper elevation. I am over six foot and thin so having the bar higher off the ground helps me a ton. If you are short you may be able to get away with a 25/35. The point is to make sure you don't have to bend beyond horizontal to reach the bar. That is called an extended deadlift and you can certainly train like that but I would recommend researching it more.
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