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@dynamitex This is huge. So often when I see people in their early 20s wondering what the secret is to maintaining a fitness routine, I feel like ... well, a lot of it is just time and money. One reason I don't feel too much regret about getting a late start is because even if I had discovered...

@otherfish Re: the head drooping, try to keep your neck in line with the rest of your spine. You can think about trying to give yourself a bit of a double chin. You want everything to stay kind of locked down from the neck through the torso, which should make it easier to put a bit more snap...

@doctinsley Gloves effectively increase the diameter of the bar, and they can also put calluses in weird spots ... but if your grip keeps feeling comfy and secure as the weight progresses, there's no need to ditch them.

@farmerdex Yes. Learning to try hard is a skill in itself, and some people find it especially difficult to generate intensity in the deadlift because you aren't feeling the weight on your body before you begin. The next time you approach a bar that seems heavy, I would experiment with getting...

@bkrolex This is more niche, but for the snatch, the one truly transformative cue for me was to stay over the bar as long as humanly possible. Almost entirely fixed my struggles to drop under the bar. If I focus on that + hitting full extension, most of the other stuff works itself out well enough.

@kateetak One year into training, with your body composition, I suspect you would be able to continue making gains at around maintenance calories for quite some time. It sounds like you're interested in being not necessarily smaller but maybe a little leaner while continuing to build muscle, so...

@brokenjohninchrist Yeah, sort of. You want your hips and shoulders to be rising at the same rate as you come off the ground, keeping the bar close in to your body by engaging your lats. Then when you get past the knees, you can squeeze your glutes to finish out the lift.

@brokenjohninchrist Based on the slow bar speed here, I would say these reps seem fairly heavy for you. You are not likely to feel much of a burn while lifting heavy weights with big muscles for low reps, so that's very normal. Your muscles are being activated, though; otherwise the weight...

@naate Obviously everyone's different (athletic background! genetics! leverages!) but as someone around the same size as you, my maxes two years in were: Squat: 195 lbs. Obviously you are almost there already, so you probably have a lot more potential! (It took me a pretty long time to sort out...

@nathan2018 squatting a few kilos less than my entire total, outrageous (and at that depth and speed!)