Oh my dear goodness, these deadlifts, though! So, deadlifts and I have a love/hate relationship. I love them but I hate them. I have gotten my deadlift up to 185 pounds and I am doing sets with them but I just cannot seem to get past that! I tried yesterday for 205 pounds and it was not hardly getting off of the floor. My husband says that it is all in my head but I just am not so sure about that. I can feel good and I can feel confident and know that I am going to kill it! And I don’t. It is frustrating, to say the least. Last week I was almost in tears I was so frustrated that I struggled with 185 so badly and yesterday I had to take a time out and just get my head back to it. After my time out I got it. I don’t struggle as bad as last week and my form was much better but it took me getting so frustrated and borderline angry to do it.

And don’t even get me started on my form! AARRGGHH!!!! I hate doing things wrong. I hate having bad form. I just want to do them and do them properly. So for me to not be able to have consistent good form kills me. That being said, deadlifts are hard hard hard to perfect your form on. They just are. There are people who have been lifting for years who still have terrible deadlift form. I don’t want to be one of those people. I want to get it and get it right every time.

Needless to say, I am moving up, I am getting better, I am working on my form (though, it is more of a challenge since my gym seems to not believe in mirrors but still, I’m doing it. Remember, you won’t have perfect form every time in everything. It just isn’t going to happen. You are going to find a plateau where you just are not moving up in weight as quickly as you did in the beginning, but every workout is making you stronger and every workout is growing your muscles. If you have a day where you just cannot do what you did last week then move down in weight and just commit. Focus on your form and on your muscles, what muscles you should be engaging and what muscles you are engaging. My deadlift yesterday I was not getting 205, as I said, so I moved back down to 135 and did a set with that where I just made sure that I form was spot on and I was paying attention to every movement that I made. You will have those workouts where you are just “not feeling it” but push through, end on a good note, and you will be glad that you did.

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