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Most girls I've known in my life didn't like muscles/veins & the simple fact that I trained, which took time away from them. Don't do it for the girls.

Call me stronglifts or mehdi. You are right: traps work isometrically in the deadlift, just to hold the weight. The whole movement comes from knees/hips/back.

Weightlifters use squat stances, but they let the weight fall on the ground. If you'd heavy weight fall on the safety catches, the stances might fall over. It's your apartment of course.

Here's your article on the deadlift: 7 Tips For A Safer Deadlift First learn to deadlift raw. The weightbelt is for later.

Use shoes with a lack of compressibility. Flat is closer to barefoot (more natural). If you go for for weightlifting, go for a heel. But always with lack of compressibility of the sole. Hard to say if bar was in contact with the shins or not. Take a shot from a 45° angle next time. Next...

lol @ athletic hoes. I said flat shoes, but that's a little simplistic. Shoes used for squatting should: * not have a sole containing gel or air shell * a general lack of compressibility The more the sole allows for compressibility, the more power is lost/foot stability destroyed...

I confirm. The deadlift starts from the ground. Romanian deadlifts: weight lowered until knee height, using hip extension/little knee movement.

Little mistakes: * you're wearing running shoes. Buy shoes with a flat sole (chuck taylo's all stars) or go barefoot. * you're slow, pull faster. * it's not a bench press: weight must be at rest on the floor. * your arms appear to be bent (not sure from the video) big mistakes * look at the...

If you find squat stances with safety catches, they will never be as safe as a power rack anyway. I could see the safety catches fall over if the weight is heavy enough.

Deadlifts are the best exercise for back strength. They teach you to keep your back rigid under a load. Deadlifts can hurt the lower the lower back if done incorrectly (bend back most popular mistake). I've got a post coming up in a few hours on my blog on deadlifting safely. I'll send...

Join the club Throttle. Same here: learned the hard way. Probably why you want to increase the SNR. I hate it too when people advise things that I experienced to be counter productive. About the disagreement (read this a few times today): our own experiences will dictate what we advise...

To tell you the truth, if you're only training for 4 months, would be better to stick to the basics. Learning to squat/bench press/overhead press/deadlift correctly, takes some time. I'm still tuning my technique. Try alternating benching with overhead press, will do the job. Or pm me your...

Tnx Warboss Alex, very motivating, especially as it comes from you.

because you wrote you asked about one of the lifts ;-) I promess you more of them in the future

If you got the form down, yes you could do them once every 2 weeks. Try alternating them with powercleans. Good exercise for power, helps the deadlift.

Don't know what you do on shoulder day, but I'd choose the overhead press as the main exercise. If you've never done overhead squats before, you'll probably have it hard with an empty olympic bar (20kg). So it won't interfer with your leg workout. You could do 5 sets of 5 at the end of...

Tnx for the motivation concerning the blog. You were "strongerbody"? Glad to hear it works. I had sleeping glutes too, so I know what you mean ;-). There will be more of these mobility drills in the future.

1) calm down with the mineral/vitamin defficiency, you're not gonna die. 2) which exercises have you done? (all of them) 3) if you have curled, what kind of bar have you used?

Optimum Nutrition's Whey, the cheapest kind, think it's 40$ for 10lb. The vanilla flavor is neutral enough to be mixed with whatever you want.

upperbody: pushups, vertical pushups, pullups, chin-ups, dips legs: pistols should be enough.