My Deadlift form- Good bad or average

[donny43]

I have included some pics of my deadlift taken today.
Please advise on how I can improve.
The only thing I can see to improve on is I am starting with my hips to high placing unnecesary strain on my back. Please feel free to pick apart the pics.

 

[H_T_]

yeah, get your hips down. and push your chest out, it should be facing the wall, not the floor.

 

[kethnaab]

sit back and push your heels into the floor. that'll help keep that chest square rather than drooping forward

 

[blut wump]

Note the difference in position between the start and the finish. As others have noted, they should be more similar than they are.

Arse down, chest up and extend from the knees. When the bar passes the knees, thrust with the hips while driving up with the chest.

 

[NorgePrecision]

The very last picture is where you should be starting. Keep your arse down and chest up.

 

[musketeer]

I see some vids with huge guys lifting massive weights and awful form all of the time, it seems. My form is "all back" and hamstrings with not much quad involvement. I'm 6'0" with longer legs and arms and a proportionately shorter torso. I've maxed 550 at 225lbs bodyweight and hope to smash that this year.

I've seen guys with supposedly great form and it looks like they are squatting with the bar held in their hands instead of over their shoulders - meaning the weight is born by the legs and the back is nearly vertical, but it really kills me to do this.

 

[markshark]

I have included some pics of my deadlift taken today.
Please advise on how I can improve.
The only thing I can see to improve on is I am starting with my hips to high placing unnecesary strain on my back. Please feel free to pick apart the pics.

i cant really tell because im not platinum, but it doesnt look like you're squeezing your back muscles and flexing them at the end. i was taught to do that and in turn every muscle in my back is sore from deads the next day. but then again you're about 400 lbs bigger than me and could probably throw me across greenland with one finger, so dont take my advice seeing that you probably know way more than me judging your figure. i should just buy a pink bookbag and get it over with.

 

[donny43]

Thanks for all the replies, I have a bit to work on in terms of the dead.

 

[mayhems]

i cant really tell because im not platinum, but it doesnt look like you're squeezing your back muscles and flexing them at the end. i was taught to do that and in turn every muscle in my back is sore from deads the next day. but then again you're about 400 lbs bigger than me and could probably throw me across greenland with one finger, so dont take my advice seeing that you probably know way more than me judging your figure. i should just buy a pink bookbag and get it over with.

i agree with this... when deadlifting ive found it more effective that when your at the top to lean back abit and make those lower back muscles contract...

 

[Chambewy20]

Not plat so cant' see pic's. Listen to the guys above but also, pretend there is an imaginary vertical plane at the bar, you need to keep your shoulders behind the bar.

In order to do this you HAVE to be ass down chest up and drive through it pulling it up and back.

 

[AEKDB]

When I deadlift I remember: sit down and put head through roof. This reminds me to sit back, which keeps the hips low, and to move the head up, keeping the back straight. You can almost not have bad form if you do these two things.