 Hello everybody. Today we're talking about setbacks and what to do about your deadlift. So I had a guy even recently who had, you know, he did some warm-up sets, he felt fine, and then he did four reps of deadlift with a submaximal pretty moderately easy weight, and then he had a back injury. So what are you gonna do? How do you deal with that setback? Not you as a trainer, but you as a lifter. That's who I'm talking to today. So what I want to illustrate to everyone is the major principle we need is perseverance. These setbacks should be expected, right? We know that not every time that we lift everything is going to be perfect, and in fact there is no perfect. If you are exposed to different scenarios, you become stronger. You become, as Nasim Taleb says, anti-fragile, right? You can grow even further if you can't predict everything that's going to happen with a deadlift. Now what I mean by perseverance is it's not the the concept of just doubling down. So I have back pain and I need to lift harder. That is not going to be your answer, but what you do need to understand is that long-term training can be supportive of this. You don't have to deadlift every day. You don't even have to deadlift heavy ever, you know? But at some point in your life you're probably gonna need to pick something up and it's a good pattern to learn, right? And so if I find out that if I do deadlifts I'm more likely to hurt my back and if I reinstill that thought, if it becomes a vicious cycle and I say my back is just not good at deadlifting, that puts breaks on you, right? That limits your potential and I think a lot of people do really, really well with them as long as they do them correctly, as long as they're feeling their hamstrings, as long as they finish with their glute muscles. And so if you're finding that you can't do those things and deadlifting only tires out your back then maybe it's time to take the weight back down. Maybe we move to a kettlebell variation. Maybe we add some sort of band that pulls you some sort of way that helps reinstill some of the correct or some of the more desirable, I guess is a better way to put it, patterns and muscular activation that you're looking for, okay? So for my client right now we're gonna avoid deadlifts because that is a scary thing for him right now and we need to gradually reintroduce this exercise over a longer period of time and that's okay. We can take our time. We have nothing but time, right? And we're gonna find other ways to work out, right? We're gonna do single leg stuff. We're not gonna load the back so much. We're gonna try to take that steep curve out of his low back and we're gonna see if these things support you in your deadlift, support him and his deadlift and then create this body and this resilient mind that can deal with all these things. But we're gonna have to do it one little step at a time and he's gonna have to persevere.