Form check on Deadlifts, Squat, and Clean and Press

[SeymourCake]

Deadlift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYhsYZ44ss
Squat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0bscxMoU6o
Clean and Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-EugoRyqo

 

[OsirisII]

Not expert but Dlift seems nice.
Squat: why You don't use thumbless grip? And side view would be better. Barbell is not too close to then neck? You should hold it a bit lower.
Clean: Its called clean because You ''clean'' the barbell from Your hips area. So You should jump with a barbell 10-20cm above knees and barbell should touch Your legs every time till this point. Also the racking at top You should have elbows straight not pointed down. Check for racking position.

 

[marmel75]

Dead and squat show great form in my opinion. I didn't even bother looking at clean and press because I've never done it.

I'll challenge you with this instead:

I'm personally not convinced that there is any good reason for doing 1-rep maxes. It's not worth the risk in my opinion. I've read recently in Dave Draper's book that 1RM's put a lot of undue strain on tendons and joints. That makes sense to me.

I 100% agree...you can get a pretty good estimate of your 1 rep max by doing a weight you can get 3 reps on...

I've jacked up my back deadlifting 565 lbs for a 1 RM and had to stop for 6 months. I had my knee buckle squatting 475 lbs which happened on the 2nd rep actually and was out for about 6 months and still have issues with my patellar tendon when I do any type of stressful movement with my knee. Likely should have gotten surgery on it because the knee was unstable for a few weeks and would randomly buckle from simply walking on it. Started getting back into it, got up to 365 lbs and my knee buckled again and it wasn't even heavy weight. Since that happened about a year ago I have not touched barbell squats again.

I do free motion squats, hack squats, leg presses, split squats, etc...you can get really great leg development IMHO by simply switching up the type of movement you are doing. My quads were stagnant for a while and then exploded with growth again when I started doing hack squats regularly again. Sometimes hitting the muscle fibers from a different angle or recruiting different muscle fibers is all you need to spur growth.

 

[SeymourCake]

Not expert but Dlift seems nice.
Squat: why You don't use thumbless grip? And side view would be better. Barbell is not too close to then neck? You should hold it a bit lower.
Clean: Its called clean because You ''clean'' the barbell from Your hips area. So You should jump with a barbell 10-20cm above knees and barbell should touch Your legs every time till this point. Also the racking at top You should have elbows straight not pointed down. Check for racking position.

I'm doing the "high bar" variation of the squat. For high bar, I place the on the traps. Here is a video showing you the differences between high bar squat and low bar squat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLVJTBZtiuw

Thanks on the advice for Cleans. I'll be more mindful of that next time.

Dead and squat show great form in my opinion. I didn't even bother looking at clean and press because I've never done it.

I'll challenge you with this instead:

I'm personally not convinced that there is any good reason for doing 1-rep maxes. It's not worth the risk in my opinion. I've read recently in Dave Draper's book that 1RM's put a lot of undue strain on tendons and joints. That makes sense to me.

Those one rep exercises shown in the video aren't maxed out weight. They're more like 90% of my max, but I'm just testing the waters to see where I stand and to see if my form is good. Undue strain on tendons and joints are a result of terrible form.