Weightlifing advice regarding form and function

Hello, need your help here, can you give me some advice as to what you think i should be doing and also if the form i am using is ok or not so good, questions pop up on the video

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[SpeedoJoe]

Your butt wink on your squats is pretty profound. No one wants back rounding, upper or lower.

Mobility, flexibility and activation work over a few months got rid of it for me.

[dombower]

@SpeedoJoe ah just had to google butt wink, i see it now.will work on that big time

thanks for the heads up 

[SpeedoJoe]

@dombower No problem. Its probably got a better name than "butt wink" but thats what bro-scientists call it. Check out my old squat video from October if you want, obviously happening in that one. Shortly after that I started seeing a S&C coach and we started doing loads of mobility and flexibility work aswell as core exercises and went to the front squat for a while. When I went back to the back squat the lower back rounding has pretty much gone, I just need to go an inch or so lower.

[dombower]

@SpeedoJoe aah flexability, that is what i dont have and it is something which i have stayed away from, when i had my car crash and fucked my back the stretching exercises i was tought only irritated the nerve so i decided rather be inflexable and not in pain than flexible and in constant pain. and it is right in that area. i wonder if i can increase mobility without irritating the nerve?

[dombower]

@paulisacrazyfreak101 you go to the pleasance gym? cool.

strict press standing barbell i think i am up to 80, on dumbells i did 3reps on 38kg each side. its the getting them up from the ground to the shoulder that is the difficulty. tips….. do pull ups before hand, and some standing jumps. works antagonistic muscles and also instigates maximal force

[LCStreetPhotographer]

@dombower To answer your question regarding powercleans, its up to you, but I personally prefer to keep it higher sets, lower reps. I usually do 5 X 3 max with 5 X 2 being my preferred. Literally because, once you start to fatigue (which will happen when the loads get heavier) your form is likely to deteriorate. Besides which you want to develop maximum explosiveness. What are your goals though? raw strength/power or size or both?

[speckyprick]

@MrBiloDoh Kind of but not really lol power is used per rep on the Olympic lifts, power cleans (nicely named) the snatch, clean and jerk, Those are maximal power lifts in weights as the bar is accelerating really fast with a lot of weight. The vertical box jump, punching, sprinting are all what you would require power for. It's just interesting how 1RM 'Powerlifting' doesn't really involve true power despite its name and this causes confusion. Strengthlifting sounds a bit shit tho lol

[MrBiloDoh]

@speckyprick Oh I see...then power is just kinda useless. To produce the most power you would just have to do lite dumbbell curls with lots of reps in a short amount of time. Dom Bower probably doesn't want to develop power then because it's just kind of arbitrary. Instead he may just want to increase his 1RM.

[speckyprick]

@MrBiloDoh The term 'power' when applied to weights is that power is the force applied to resistance causing the object providing the resistance to accelerate or change velocity. The faster the bar moves each rep at a constant weight, the more power applied to it. (That's where time comes into it) At a 1RM max, force is very high while power is very very low. 'Work' is force over distance, not over time.

[MrBiloDoh]

@speckyprick That's not true at all. "Power" is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. What you were describing is "work".

[SpeedoJoe]

@dombower Ace. When I noticed mine last year I had the same reaction.

BTW, go check your Facebook friends.

[SpeedoJoe]

@dombower I imagine there's a way of fixing it without freaking out said nerve.

There are a lot of people who think they know how to fix it but I would try and find a professional who knows their shit. Have you ever considered getting a trainer? If you look around for long enough you can normally find someone with good skills and qualifications. Unfortunately a lot of normal PTs are full of shit.

[dombower]

@SpeedoJoe got a video up today regarding the butt wink and how i am trying to fix it but also suddenly noticing it and thinking it really really bad!!