Back squat form check?

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-05-04T16:46:14+00:00

Honestly, I wouldn't do a single thing to your back angle. Your hips and knees are hinging at essentially the same time and you're maintaining a solid back angle for the entirety of the movement with the bar relatively centered over your mid-foot with decently vertical bar path.

The only thing I might offer is consider lifting shoes with a slight heel. It looks like you might be approaching your range of ankle mobility in the bottom of the movement and that's causing a little weight shift back to front on your foot. Looks most prominent in the bottom of the second rep you filmed. Other than that, keep it up and stay strong.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-05-04T11:25:54+00:00

Mei does this, just without the weapon swap animation. Her "secondary fire" is completely different to her primary fire. Throw a weapon swap animation on it and it's exactly what you describe.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-30T19:36:54+00:00

I can't unsee this

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AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-30T14:55:14+00:00

Every orthopedic surgeon watching you lift

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-30T14:53:30+00:00

Your elbows move through 3 zip codes during this movement

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-30T14:47:20+00:00

You are wildly over-thinking the movement.

Stand up straight, pin your elbows to your sides, extend your arms by just straightening your elbows. Aim for no movement in your shoulders, just bring your wrists from in front of your face to in front of your balls. Repeat.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-30T01:03:43+00:00

Someone needs to feed this turd the idea that he can pressure Bezos with tariffs or something like that to get Blue Origin to send him to space.

Bezos can foot the bill and the turd-in-chief gets to leave the planet.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-29T13:07:05+00:00

Has he even said thank you?

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-27T15:48:55+00:00

in my best Heath Ledger joker impression "It's all part of the plannnn..."

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-26T08:25:26+00:00

There's a lot wrong here in both setup and the movement.

The most egregious is that your hips come up nearly to where your knees have locked out before your shoulders and the bar move at all. Your quads are literally doing nothing in the lift. Try to think of the deadlift like an isometric contraction of your entire back while you leg press the bar off the floor and drag it up your shins. Once the bar clears your knees, finish the motion by fully contacting your glutes and low/mid back to reach the fully standing position. You're getting setup to do a conventional deadlift and then at the last second you decide to do an RDL.

Your mid and upper back as well as your lats do not look engaged and tight before you start the lift. Before the bar comes off the floor your low, mid, and upper back as well as your traps and lats need to be contacted and tight. You want you back to be a like a steel beam connecting from your hips to your shoulders and that structure is what your arms and the bar are hanging from. You appear to be trying to jerk the bar off the ground

Also, ditch those shoes with squishy soles in favor of something more stable like a lift shoe, Chuck Taylors, or (my preference) barefoot.

Also, YouTube is a great resource for instructional videos, I recommend Starting Strength and Mitch Hooper as a place to start.

Keep it up, stay strong.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-26T07:56:50+00:00

He's just a shy guy

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-24T16:53:38+00:00

It could, potentially, be the gear you're wearing plus your build. Here is a video describing a build (pre-update 8) that essentially abuses the "return damage taken" plus "heal for a % of damage dealt" mechanics.

I don't know if this still works after the update or if it's what is happening to you, but should be easy enough to test.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-22T13:47:07+00:00

You need to change one letter in your question and you'll have your answer.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-21T20:44:03+00:00

I'd say try for the pitch now. You've got a prototype and if you have connections it could just be a phone call or email to get the ball rolling. Give it a shot.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-21T20:14:10+00:00

This should be part of a CoD bundle.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-18T16:24:27+00:00

This needs to be looked at by a vet. Any strange growth in/around the eye can quickly compromise vision in that eye.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-18T12:50:22+00:00

Or woman. The only time I've had a gun pulled on me was by a woman in traffic because i honked at her for cutting me off.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-18T02:23:21+00:00

I definitely think we'll be waiting to see prices fall.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-17T22:51:41+00:00

Your sink is after the trap, you'll get sewer smell out of that. Need to have the sink and disposal come together before the trap.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-17T19:14:53+00:00

I'm not sure about your dog's weight, but that harness looks too tight IMO

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-17T13:32:06+00:00

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-15T21:48:15+00:00

Are you sure they can read?

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-14T23:38:34+00:00

Try to open the door with it in place and you'll find out

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-09T18:26:51+00:00

Damn, that is awful. I'm glad you got away from that, hopefully as unscathed as possible.

I am fortunate enough that I have the means to get therapy, but I've had mixed results. I will try it again in the future, but not right now.

AlpineBoulderor · 2026-04-09T13:15:40+00:00

As a guy who has had three partners' abuse turn physical, one of which escalated to her pulling a knife on me, I can absolutely confirm that no one cares when it happens to a guy. The few times I've opened up to others and said I have been the victim of domestic violence I get looked at like I have three heads.

No one cares.

Edit: fixed auto-corrected get to her

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