By Elliot Coulombe Woznica
Published 3/31
Changing Form
As you may know by now, on Wednesdays, I deadlift. With that being said, this Wednesday was a little different in that I actually tweaked my deadlift form quite a bit. I wasn’t supposed to go super heavy, so below is a video of a light rep with my new form
Usually when you start to stall in powerlifting, you know one of 3 major things is going wrong.
- Diet and recovery isn’t right
- Training is too intense/fatigue is too high
- Form needs to be tweaked
Now, I wouldn’t say that any of these things were playing a huge role in my slower progress recently. In fact, it would be an overstatement to say that my progress has, in fact, been slowed recently (hence no background). Recently, though, I just haven’t been able to shake the feeling that I could be a lot better. Enter: New deadlift form. This new stance is much wider than what I would typically do. This allows me to wedge my hips further into the bar, thus creating a more upright and quad-dominant position off of the ground. This was actually a small tweak (contrary to what I said in the beginning, I know), but I think it’s going to make a huge difference.
Squat
Along with a deadlift tweak, I also tweaked my squat a little this week. Take a look:
Again, this was a small tweak, but I started holding the bar with a much wider grip. This will hopefully allow me to create more manual tightness in my upper back, helping with my positioning throughout the rep.
I hope you could pull something from this, thanks for reading!
