This thread is for:
- Perfectly natural and functional ideas that came from a spiritual, religious, occultist, parapsychologist etc. source (perhaps with some "baggage")
- Techniques that are bit difficult to explain and may be seen by the gullible as magic, but they actually seem to do something, even if that something is just a novel way to trick the brain.
Both things that are actually useful and "stage tricks" are accepted in this thread.
It sounds to me that your problem is very likely to be bad form. In the majority of cases that is the problem. I am a regular "work-outer" myself (and my current goal is a master´s degree in cellbiology in case that matters) and I notice that most people seem to have bad form when they deadlift. But 100 kg sounds like an odd number to have problems with. If I knew you gender, weight and age I could perhaps give better advice. Try arch your back some more and learn about the correct form.
Deadlifting and other compound exercises take much energy and put alot of pressure on your body, especially if you´re not physically active in your work, so make sure you rest enough and don´t exercise too long at a time.
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 post... (read more)