• What shoes are you wearing?

• Where’s in relation to your foot is the bar sitting when you look down?

• Are you breathing right and creating intra abdominal pressure?

• Are you locking your lats and engaging your core?

• Are you engaging your glutes and hamstrings or your lower back?

• Are you pushing the floor away or lifting the bar and letting your hips shoot up?

• Are your arms pulling the bar or are you using them anchors?

• Are you pulling the slack out of the bar before you lift?

• Are you squatting your deadlift?

All these happen before your lift starts.

❌ any sort of cushioned shoes

✅ no shoes or flat shoes like Converses/Nike blazers

❌ bar too far forward (at your toes) = lower back pain & bar too close (at your ankle) = crappy bar path

✅ bar sitting in the middle of your foot = perfect spacing

❌ random breathing pattern

✅ breathing into your belly, hold it, perform the rep, come down, breath out & into your belly again & repeat

❌ unsupported spine due to no lat engagement

✅ shoulders back & down, engaging your lats & core to support your spine

❌ using your back to lift the bar and hips shooting up

✅ focussing on your glutes and hamstrings to pull and hips move at the same rate as the bar

❌ thinking “lift bar off the floor” causing you to subconsciously involve your arms in the movement

✅ thinking “push floor away” allowing you to use your arms as hooks for the movement

❌ not pulling slack out of the bar, losing control of the weight

✅ pulling slack out of the barbell as you lock your lats = better movement & control of the weight

❌ starting with hips too low & arm joints not stacked = you feel the deadlift in your quads

✅ starting with hips in the middle & arm joints stacked = good pull form