Comment on "Spiritual" techniques that actually work thread

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:49:59 GMT

M,37, 110 kg, 190 cm, so that is not the issue. Frankly I never understood terms like arching a back or keeping a back straight, I think they are described from how it looks outside not how it feels inside and that is bad. To me a good position to keep the back in is to use the lower abs to pull the lower pelvis forward in order to counter the usual problem of anterior pelvic tilt, and pulling the shoulders back with the rear delts, and relax the upper traps, letting the shoulders fall from being pulled up the ears to downwards. This is what good back posture feels like from the inside. It is possible that this is not enough. I don't really have any mobility in the upper vertebrae so that must be part of why I have no idea what these terms mean, as when changing my back position I change other things than vertebrae, such as shoulders or hips / pelvis. I think otherwise my form was good, of course I cannot see myself from the outside, but it felt like the same feelings as how it was described in articles how it should feel like from the inside: first pushing the heels into the ground, then moving the lower pelvis forward with the lower abs and glutes as if fucking the bar, and this penis-into-bar is the major movement, then just locking out at the top. Then the same thing back down as power lifting is not accepted enough here to just drop it. It would look like showing off.

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