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@michael005 You should try some weightlifting shoes. You have a very advantageous build for squatting though and it wasn't very bad.

@dawn16 Really, you could have fooled me

@dawn16 I understand how training and recovery work. If she's maintaining her performance in the gym, which it sounds like she is, then she doesn't have a problem with under-recovery. Since you haven't been measuring her skinfolds, you have no basis for saying that she's burning away her muscle...

@dawn16 A few sets of 225 lb deadlifts etc. doesn't burn that many calories. 2250 seems like a realistic TDEE, but that's mostly because she's 5'10. I think people tend to overestimate the calorie expenditure of lifting.

@michael005 You're setting up a little too low on the deadlift, partly because you're using 35 lb. plates, which are generally a little smaller than 45 lb. plates. Full sized plates will leave the bar a little higher. Then you should set up so that the bar is over your midfoot, and don't push it...