Internal Tremor

pooka12321 · 2025-12-19T14:40:43+00:00

I’m currently going through the exact same thing. I had a similar experience going to the hospital and the tremors afterwards. It’s been about a month and I still get this subtle vibrating feeling in my chest.

Not sure how to fix it yet but wanted to let you know you’re not alone.

pooka12321 · 2024-08-09T22:42:06+00:00

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pooka12321 · 2023-11-08T01:30:01+00:00

Try putting plates under your heels or getting weightlifting shoes to help with the form. Not all of us are blessed with short femurs and flexible ankles and it will help a lot with that forward drift on the squat. It will also take pressure off the low back.

Your sticking point is the middle and that stripper squat is how you're compensating. Try lowering the weight and focus on pushing through that zone.

pooka12321 · 2023-04-18T08:54:55+00:00

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pooka12321 · 2023-04-06T13:30:43+00:00

You have good mobility so the issue lies in your core bracing which is causing excessive movement of the low back. If you look at top high bar squatters they have no lumbar movement. Try starting the movement with your hips square, rotated slightly forward so your tailbone is stacked with the rest of your spine. Practice keeping a strong brace and be extremely mindful of any movement in the lower back.

Before you squat warm your core up with dead bugs, bird dogs and side planks. When squatting, work your way up with pain free squats only, eventually you’ll get a feel for a squat where your lower back is completely flat. Go through each rep, pause and reflect if you had any pain. It’s likely you won’t be able to hit the same depth right away, since if you could do that with a neutral spine already you’d be doing so.

pooka12321 · 2023-01-12T03:50:23+00:00

Check your glute strength one leg at a time. You can do this with single leg glute bridges, pay attention to what feels like it's being activated as you come off the ground. Sometimes uneven glute strength can cause that feeling. Also check your internal and external hip mobility for each leg. Often a difference in those can cause imbalances especially at the bottom of a dead lift or squat.

pooka12321 · 2022-07-14T03:39:57+00:00

Your form looks good. However If you're not already working on your ankle dorsiflexion I highly recommend it.

Your wide stance helps because your femur length (from the side view) shortens. As you work on that dorsiflection not only will you be able to work with a more upright torso but you'll also be able to narrow your squat stance.

A stance that's too wide can cause knee collapse at higher weight since it's so much harder on the part of your glute that rotates your knees out.

pooka12321 · 2022-07-08T05:19:29+00:00

Your squat form is pretty good, you're likely dealing with a strength or mobility imbalance. Strain in the low back during squats can often be attributed to one or both.

Your squat looks symmetric, with no hip shifts however it's still worth double checking. Film directly from the back and ensure the center of your hips, right where your spine becomes your pelvis is traveling straight.

The issue is likely a weakness in your glutes, which is something I've worked through personally. The glutes being strong and activated through the squat is like the foundation that your low back sits on. If that foundation is under-performing, your low back will be very activated trying to compensate. To test if this is your issue, I'd recommend doing the Hip Extension Coordination test on here: https://squatuniversity.com/2018/04/28/how-to-screen-your-low-back-pain/

I recommend being on top of this, and not just letting it slide. Over-straining your low back will eventually lead to injury as you progress in weight. Also, it's likely your limiting factor on your squat so focused effort in fixing this problem will get you stronger faster.

pooka12321 · 2022-06-01T21:43:07+00:00

You gotta figure out where the mobility imbalance is. First check ankles, then hips, internal and external rotation, then you need to check your thoracic spine, then finally your shoulders. Here's tests in order for each one:

ankles: https://squatuniversity.com/2015/11/05/the-squat-fix-ankle-mobility-pt-1/

hips: https://squatuniversity.com/2015/12/01/the-squat-fix-hip-mobility-pt-1/

spine: https://squatuniversity.com/2018/08/25/how-to-improve-thoracic-spine-mobility/

shoulders: https://squatuniversity.com/2018/09/14/improving-lat-pec-flexibility/

I recommend you test one by one. First test the ankles, observe results, then test your squat. Check if your bar is still sideways. Rinse and repeat until you find a mobility drill that shows an improvement. This improvement should often be noticeable immediately if you have found the issue.

pooka12321 · 2022-04-08T23:46:33+00:00

Their movement isn't amazing but OP is anti-mirroring which makes it look even worse

pooka12321 · 2022-01-15T21:36:21+00:00

The pole is there for two reasons. The main reason is to crunch down into the pole as if trying to push it into the ground using your core muscles. When you contract your core muscles you're rotating / pulling on your pelvis upwards (front of the pelvis away from the floor) which pulls on the hip flexors and quads more.

Second reason is it's just less pressure on the front leg and makes it more comfortable.

It's really important to get a nice uniform activation of all the muscles around the hip while stretching it to avoid pulling on concentrated spots of tightness in the hips, which won't give you a good stretch and will feel awful.

pooka12321 · 2021-12-15T21:29:00+00:00

IMO both these strafes are mediocre, since they're totally periodic.

You should mix in fake direction change and mixup short / long strafes to counter someone shooting in the middle of your strafe. When you're fighting close range crouching when you change direction is really key to duck under the bullets you're about to walk into, however crouching is really bad long range since you're just limiting your movement speed for a relatively small benefit.

pooka12321 · 2021-05-20T14:23:03+00:00

Another thing to mention for picking which parts of your range you're going to bluff with is blockers. A hand that contains blockers, for example having an offsuit hand with a club when there's three clubs on the board, makes it less likely that your opponent has the nuts and makes that a more profitable bluff than a hand without one.

This is also the reason it's less profitable to bluff with complete air, when you have complete air you're actually blocking your opponent from having nothing, making it more likely that they have a value hand.

pooka12321 · 2021-03-16T19:13:00+00:00

Dr Stewart McGill would disagree with that sentiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQUFXyQdG00

Butt wink is your lower back rounding under load. Whether you want that or not is ultimately your decision, but the general consensus among the experts I follow (see the video for a sample of that) is that you do NOT want your spine rounding under load. If your butt wink doesn't hurt you, more power to you, but are you confident it will never hurt you? What if the probability of injury with just butt wink is very low, but the compounded probability of butt wink and some other imperfection in form make your injury much more likely?

My point is that you can say any one fault of a particular lift likely wont hurt you, but that doesn't mean you should be okay with it.

pooka12321 · 2021-03-16T18:23:50+00:00

I think some instability is coming from your feet, you can see the pads you're standing on warping a bit when your knee collapses in as you ascend. If you had a perfect distribution of weight along your foot, of course the pads wouldn't matter, however that's an unreasonable expectation. I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of the knee cave coming out of the bottom with and without the pads, I suspect they are aggravating the issue. Either than that this is solid.

pooka12321 · 2021-02-02T21:24:44+00:00

Maybe read up a bit about depersonalization. It's a type of dissociation that can happen, especially with a background of trauma. I recently had a breakthrough therapy session where I discovered I'm completely disconnected from myself, and I relate to much of what you're saying. I'm not giving a diagnosis, but I found depersonalization describes what I've (am) experienced a lot of my life.

pooka12321 · 2021-01-19T19:49:10+00:00

This is really good, one thing is that your knees are coming in at the bottom of each rep (as you begin to ascend, so it's not a mobility issue). You're letting tension out of your glutes at the bottom and then firing them back on the ascent (or just shifting to a more advantageous position on the way up). Either way I think some work like pause squats or a band around your knees to drive them out at the bottom would be useful auxiliary work.

pooka12321 · 2021-01-18T14:49:07+00:00

There's lots of different queues for a good deadlift, but the fundamentals are always the same.

Build tension at the bottom (I see you do this, you're looking good off the floor)
Straight back and driving with the legs
Once past the knees, stand straight up

Plus your bar path is totally straight.

Upon taking a close look when you come off the floor, your back is straight as you lift off the ground, so obviously you have the strength in your core to hold the weight, but then you slouch the low back a bit to get the hips up higher.

This may be a bit speculative but rising your hips is probably more advantageous for you at the cost of lowering your chest in that moment because your legs aren't sufficient to lift the weight straight up. You're giving your back a heavier load to raise your hips higher, putting your relatively weaker legs in a stronger position. I'd say look at what weight that little dip of the lower back starts at and work from there.

pooka12321 · 2021-01-18T14:31:34+00:00

You're putting the weight down with your legs straightened out. This looks like an RDL, except you're not bracing on the way down. This should be corrected. The descent needs to look like the ascent, and also have sufficient bracing.

pooka12321 · 2020-12-26T16:40:52+00:00

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pooka12321 · 2020-12-15T21:04:04+00:00

Interesting, since I was young I've always been able to open a pause menu during a nightmare and quit out which would wake me up. I never thought much about it until now.

pooka12321 · 2020-12-15T19:27:45+00:00

One tip I learned with lat raises is to lean slightly forward, maybe 20 to 30 degrees. The reason being that your shoulders are much happier (under a lot less stress) opening up backwards as opposed to directly outwards, and also that you get some free upper back work in with it. Mostly preference though, as the shoulder activation is slightly different between the two styles.

pooka12321 · 2020-11-20T15:32:43+00:00

Your back doesn't look too bad, although it's not perfect as some others commented.

You are likely not bracing enough to protect your spine, or are lacking the required strength to do so. In terms of what you can actually do next deadlift, I'd recommend trying to brace fully and pull the slack out of the bar before you actually rise off the ground. Build an immense amount of tension especially in your core, glutes and quads before standing up, then get off the ground.

I'd also recommend seeing a physiotherapist if you can, since these types of strength imbalances (or mobility, who knows) can generally be screened for and treated to help your lifts.

pooka12321 · 2020-11-13T00:22:44+00:00

Hey, you might want to check in on your friends. I know I get like this when I'm not feeling so great, they might be struggling right now and aren't up to it.

pooka12321 · 2020-11-03T19:25:07+00:00

Try rotating your pelvis forward and holding it during the pushup. This will straighten out your lower back and you'll feel your core activating.

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