How's your form when doing a PR on linear progression?

misnomer1

When you were a beginner and adding weights every session to your compound lifts, how was your form?

I know mine isn't great, i can feel it especially with back squats. If I can finish my 5x5 though, I add weight next session and the lower weight warmup sets feel very good. Should I continue like this?

crackpotbaby

If you can't nail it with good form, take weight off and work with a weight you can maintain your form,

What's the point of adding weight if you're not completing the exercise effectively or safely?

middlehaitch

Personally form is everything. I am too old to play with injuries.
Spend longer on lower weights improving your form.
Try recording your lifts so you can see where you need to correct.

Cheers, h.

jelleigh

Im just in my first month of Stronglifts myself so I'm by no means an expert or anything but just to share my experience: I did as much research as I could on form and tried my best, as well as did video checks on myself. I still wasn't entirely sure if I was doing it right (and I can't ask people at the gym because of a language barrier) . So I figured I'd keep going and just keep trying to improve based on what I was reading. Over this month I've gotten stronger and now I find I'm able to hold better form than I was before. I feel like as I gained strength I was able to control things better. Im sure that as you increase weight, form becomes more and more crucial. But being so at the beginning I was able to spend some time getting stronger and then was capable of self adjusting. I just finished a workout 20 minutes ago and was noticing how much better my form felt on my back squats. Now I think I need to work more on my bench pressing cause I think I'm putting my elbows wrong and I don't quite understand the online instructions of 75 degrees vs 90 degrees from the body.

KarenSmith2018

Form is soooooo important, Certainly form over weight any day. Until you can do all your reps with good form then don't increase the weight. It is a one way street to an injury!

thatfitdad

Form wont be perfect on a PR, might get grindy. Thats the truth, thats why you dont PR all the time. Now moderate loss of form vs. Complete *kitten* dangerous form... two different things.

LiveLoveFitFab

Form when it comes to back squats will vary slightly from person to person, but there are some guidelines to follow. Your body should lean forward only slightly, and knees should remain over the ankles. Some people, like myself, can't get really low into a back squat. I have hip issues that make it a no go to have my butt almost on the floor. But, it's still a good squat.

Either way, if you are wondering about your form - take a video. Understand longer or shorter legs might give a different result. Take a video with an empty bar and one with the full bar. That is a good comparison to yourself.

I learned to do squats many moons ago with a personal trainer. He set up an actual bench behind me where he wanted my butt to hit with the goal to get my butt to hit the bench before driving my heels to bring the bar back up. That was about 20 years ago, and probably thousands of squats later. Whenever I question my form I pretend I'm doing a sit on a low object and good form returns.

bbell1985

When I was running 5x5 my first time I really took a step back and corrected my form. Worth it. Don't add weight if it ain't lookin great.

bbell1985

Also your question doesn't make sense to me because the subject mentions form for a PR and the question just speaks on adding weight from workout to workout.