yes, i can count right i am a small little machine, lol today i broke squat record at 225lbs, i only got 5 reps in tho, i'm so happy legs are strong, but upper body is weak as sh*t... i need to improve but i love beating all records i have with lower body workouts.
Theres a Femail at gym deadlifting around 350lbs i see her dead lift 225 for 10 aswell but i think she must be a power lifter,well shes gotta be.
just increase the weight every set/workout evan by (2kg).
you will get there soon. (please dont just try and increase the weight cause it seems to look better)
remember keep the form nice it aint about how much you can lift or do its about how you do it!
Regarding the difference between going to floor versus mid-shin- would you put the bar all the way onto the floor and then lift back up? I have been doing mid-shin, and was wondering what changing to floor would do? I thought you are supposed to look straight ahead or up, so if going to floor you have to look down- is the main idea to keep the neck straight?
What do people think about Good Mornings? Is that pretty much the same form, or really similar, as the dead-lift?
In college I used to favor good mornings. We called them "ducks" because the day after you first tried them you ended up walking like a duck. Typically your hamstrings were so sore that walking at all was difficult.
You can actually hurt yourself fairly easily with good mornings if you do not approach the poundage slowly.
Start with stiff-legged dead lifts and then graduate to light good mornings. Keep the reps high (8 to 10 reps) and the poundage light (light enough to do the 8 - 10 reps) so as not to cause injury.
Just saw this thread and realised - I was dead lifting 40 lbs back then, now I'm at 100 lbs! in 2 months! I think it'll be awhile before I get much higher though - mostly due to grip issues on the bar
ldematto wrote: I think it'll be awhile before I get much higher though - mostly due to grip issues on the bar
I had this same problem with grip. I'm not sure how other people feel about them, but I use the weight lifting hooks to help me with grip for deadlifts. I could lift the weight, but hands were giving out and it was getting frustrating. I bought some off of amazon, and I really like them. They velcro around the wrist and hook onto the barbell or dumbbell, and hand fits in between the two hooks.
If you train with heavy weights you need to pay particular attention to your grip. If the bar rolls out of your grip you can get tendonitis in the elbow.
The first line of defense with deadlifts is to grab one end with your grip in an over hand position and the other end with your hand in an under hand position.
In that way as the bar rolls out of one hand it rolls into the other and your grip improves rather radically.
clare_1 wrote:I think the main thing is progression. It doesnt really matter how heavy you can lift as long as you progress.
Can i just add that boyfriend was bench pressing ME the other night. I know im not that much to lift but it made day... and night. Ha.
I used to work out with one of the defensive players for the NY Jets. We were horsing around once and he pinned me for a 3 second count (both shoulders touching) to the CEILING!. I weighed about 185 at the time.
I am so relieved! I hadn't seen anyone mention this issue and I thought, ut oh - I've got a problem. I'll try the over/under grip and look for the wrist straps.
Thanks so much!
Clare - husband tells the story about him carrying me up 500 steps in Bermuda (it was probably only 100) - and that he hopes one day to be able to do it again - that's me getting that small again, not him getting stronger - I'm working on it You are probably about the size I was back then....it's amazing what you can do when you are in shape - day and night
You are probably about the size I was back then....it's amazing what you can do when you are in shape - day and night 
i am a small little machine, lol 
today i broke squat record at 225lbs, i only got 5 reps in tho, i'm so happy 
