Squat/Deadlift Check

[JB1981]

Hi Rip,

Would greatly appreciate your feedback.

Squat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrKMZv2I-go (starts at 0.40 sec)

My questions:
- Am I getting enough forward knee travel?
- Too Deep? Cut these off a little?

Deadlift:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UrpxOt38zo (starts at 0.25 sec)

My questions:
- Is my start position too high?
- Am I setting the back angle well enough?
- Am I keeping the bar close enough to my body?

Sorry for the video length. Don't know how to edit video on this iPhone yet.
- Thank you for your time.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Both of these look good. Very good. Your worries are inaccurate.

[vkp78]

Probably being a douchebag, but it would be good to break primarily with the hips till the bar crosses the knees while setting down the bar in the deadlift.

[Mark Rippetoe]

If I look at any squat or deadlift long enough I can probably find something wrong with it, if the lifter is right in front of me and it's my job to give feedback at that level. But these sets were pretty good on the whole, as I said. This problem will go away when the lifter actually gets strong enough to lift weights that will hurt his knees if he sets them down this way.

[vkp78]

If I look at any squat or deadlift long enough I can probably find something wrong with it, if the lifter is right in front of me and it's my job to give feedback at that level. But these sets were pretty good on the whole, as I said. This problem will go away when the lifter actually gets strong enough to lift weights that will hurt his knees if he sets them down this way.

As I said probably am being a douchebag

[Mark Rippetoe]

You probably just wanted to say something.

[JB1981]

Thank you for taking the time to look at the lifts, Rip. I am glad to see that I have the basic movement patterns down. Now it's time to put on some size and put some weight on the bar.

[vkp78]

You probably just wanted to say something.

That remark I take issue with:the rolling back of the bar towards the legs was pretty noticeable(I am not claiming to be "eagle eye" but probably it was me going through the same difficulties that made me notice it)

[Mark Rippetoe]

Noted.