u/Nkklllll

I hope this post is educational for beginners and intermediates alike. And especially for those of you who might want to coach at some point.

I spend probably too much time on reddit and not enough time doing my recovery work or trying to build my business, but it's led me to see how other "fitness" subs handle their form checks. While some are quite stingy/restrictive, like r/strength_training, Those restrictions come from a place of not wanting to clutter up a thread with bad advice. The goal there is to help the applicable advice be louder than the non-applicable, and sometimes stupid, advice.

Our community here is quite a bit smaller than more general subs like the above subreddit, so I don't think we need to be nearly as restrictive, or rude. But I would strongly encourage anyone who is thinking about answering a from check to do 2 things: avoid commenting "useless" advice.

Examples include: "lower the weight and work on technique." Okay, what about the technique, how much should they lower it? 1kg? 10? 100?

"Be faster under the bar." How?

"Don't loop the bar." Again, how?

and the second part of this is: make sure the issue you're identifying is the ACTUAL issue, and not a symptom of the problem.

For instance, in the above example of a bar looping, it could be because the bar is coming out around their knees during the first pull, their hips are pushing forward too hard during the second pull, or the inverse and their shoulders are pulling back too hard. Or they could be doing everything REALLY well during the 1st and 2nd pull but then have loose, inactive arms during the 3rd. or maybe they have really active arms, but their elbows turn back early. or maybe they're a super and they're looping the bar to get around their belly because no one told them their technique needs to look a little different than the 79kg national lifter they like to watch.

That's it, that's my rant. Hope y'all have a good day. Peace.