and this most likely leads to form breakdown as well, leading to lower back pain, leading to DEADLIFTS ARE EVIL

Glad to see this is up here! As a part-time strength coach, but full time office worker, I get bombarded with the typical belief that deadlifts will destroy your back or because they hurt themselves lifting a stack of paper on the ground they shouldn’t do deadlifts (I’m calling you out mid-20 couch potato co-coworker).

For my clients that are newer to strength training, I actually like to have them start out with low reps (but also low weights as well) for a month to focus on technique. I have found that sometimes with high reps, fatigue sets in and form breaks down, people tend to brute force the weight up instead. After the…

This is not true for all people. Technique and form is always dependent on individuals and their morphology. As a powerlifter, I have had to adjust my grips and stances constantly as I moved up and down weight classes to find the optimal position for strength and injury prevention.

Remember, everything thing needs to come at slow progression - it’s normal you can’t handle heavier weights. If you are going to do all these barre classes, i recommend taking one day a week where you focus on weights. When do lift on those days, try to increase the effort each session, whether you do the same reps…