video of 435
i was gonna try to get 2 more reps but on the way down I realized that wasn't going to happen tonight so thats why I dropped it at the knees instead of from the top.
The issue that I see here is that your back is way too horizontal before the pull. This turns your deadlift almost into
a Stiff-Legged Deadlift with less than ideal quad involvement, making it much harder than it should be:
Notice how open the angle of your knees is compared to the really closed angle of your hips. In an ideal deadlift
setup, as you bend down to grab the bar, the hips are pulled back and dropped down to ensure hamstring tension
throughout, so the angle of the knees ends up being much more closed, leaving a lot of room for the quads to
contract on the way up:
The way you are set up makes me think that you are too close to the bar, thus your shins don't have much room
to move forward as you reach down to the bar, and you can't drop your hips properly.
Remember how Brolic keeps streesing that you should "pull the bar back into yourself"? That's a cue to ensure
that, as the bar is kept balanced over the midfoot, the hips keep the hamstrings tight as the quads extend the
knees so that you don't end up pulling the whole thing with your hips alone.
Also, don't forget to lock your knees at the top!
