Can't feel it in hams or glutes with Deadlifts...

Yeah, your form really isn't terrible right now. You aren't arching to well though.

Just think about grabbing the bar, and arching hard. Pull your butt back and down and drive the bar off the floor with your heels, and then move your glutes forward for the lockout.

You can't just go through a motion, you have to actively recruit and use the muscles in question. YOu have to actually conciously contract your glutes through out the movement, to put the strain on them, it's a mind muscle tihng that doesn't happen accidentally.

WHen I squat I try to get my hips through as fast as possible by squuezing the gluts hard, as with deadlifts.

Originally Posted by imc_1121

Whenever I do any type of deadlift, I find it very hard to really feel it in my hams and glutes... I barely feel it there and my lower back always ends smoked.
It´s really annoying, I have problems feeling it in my hams and glutes even with romanian deads or sumo..
Any tips or suggestions of what I could do to fix this problem??

If you want to strengthen your hamstrings do Stiff legged good mornings from chain suspensions, reverse hypers, hyper extensions, Hang Romanian deficit deadlifts from a platform.

Lower the weight focus on form and high reps to feel the contractions, as you start feeling it weekly lower the reps,higher the weight, but personally if you are power lifting you should feel a heavy deadlift everywhere and mainly your upper back by the scapula's.

And after watching your video your too upright and arched. Your glutes are too low and pop up before you engage the lift. Your position works for sumo but not for conventional. Your butt shouldn't pop up and move at all. Also your head is way to up and backwards, you should be looking at a point in front of you comfortably and staying focused on it.

When you deadlift conventional contrast to popular belief you should look like this :

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Originally Posted by BodyByGamma

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When you deadlift conventional contrast to popular belief you should look like this :BE]

Eeeeeeh... no. Do not deadlift like this. K himself said he deadlifted with a totally arched back for many years, and found the rounder upper back technique was the only way to break through his plateau. This is a very experienced pulling style that is done conciously. He can keep his lower back tight and safe whilst rounding the upper back, it works for him.

Get a relatively inexperienced lifter to do it and he'll pop a disk when the weight gets heavy. Keep the chest up, lower back arched and the upper back in a moderately tight position.

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Eeeeeeh... no. Do not deadlift like this. K himself said he deadlifted with a totally arched back for many years, and found the rounder upper back technique was the only way to break through his plateau. This is a very experienced pulling style that is done conciously. He can keep his lower back tight and safe whilst rounding the upper back, it works for him.

Get a relatively inexperienced lifter to do it and he'll pop a disk when the weight gets heavy. Keep the chest up, lower back arched and the upper back in a moderately tight position.

Exactly. Mentioning Konstantinovs in a thread made by a beginner learning how to deadlift is not the best idea, I don't think.

Plus this guy is a bodybuilder as well

Originally Posted by lonesXedge

Exactly. Mentioning Konstantinovs in a thread made by a beginner learning how to deadlift is not the best idea, I don't think.

Plus this guy is a bodybuilder as well

Good point Lones X Edge,if the guy is a body builder,don't want someone getting hurt dead-lifting.

But if you want to deadlift heavy this is the way to go, but it needs to be learned and is not for anyone but powerlifters and strongman to do and mess with, since a valid point has been mentioned. You can check this article for a better idea of deadlift set up.

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/mark_rippetoe2.htm

If you check this article out and look how Brad Gilligham he also pulls with a flat back the only difference is he uses a hook grip and keeps his head higher up but its more or less the same placement.

Just to explain a bit more higher upright stances only work for sumo since your legs more spaced out to the side and your shins arent hitting the bar causing your butt to pop up.Trick with deadlifting is not to get your butt down, but to keep it down but if :

your a body builder then stick to body builder movements to target the hamstrings,and if your deadlifting do Romanian deadlifts as a safer alternative that will better target the hammys. No need risking injury on a dangerous lift.