Are you talking about your fucking lats?
Do a double bicep pose in the mirror and try and pull your elbows as far down as you can. If you're doing this right, your traps should be the smallest they've ever been and your lats should appear somewhat bigger.
That's probably the easiest way for me to explain flexing them. There are other ways though, in other poses.
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What is this on my lower back? It's spreading in size and is some of the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. Started as a little red spot and I put a bandaid on it and now I pulled it off looking like this.
I'm thinking about going to the ER. Is it worth it?
>Do it and see if it makes it easier
is horrible advice, of course it will make it easier, you will also not benefit fully from deadlift if you start with belt straight of the bat...
Ive done 170 kg for 1rm, but not sure how much further I can go like that, dont want to mess myself up..
No, I mean all the muscles in the circle
My biceps, my shoulders, my pecs, and those lats.
I don't think my traps are effected.
I can't flex any of the afflicted muscles on cue. And they always fall behind my left side.
I mean the activate. They still respond to commands, but they're slow and not as strong.
My hunch is that I have a damaged nerve that innervates that region of my body. Not enough to paralyze, but enough that I can't flex a 'cep
Increase the frequency you do thelift
Might be staph but definitely infected whatever it is. Go see a doctor immediately.
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Yo wtf
That's some serious shit.
How'd you do that?
It doesn't look infected now, but you said they were... Growing?
Dude, if wounds get BIGGER without reasonable cause, then that's some fucked shit
If you think they'll help and you feel your back being a piece of shit is when you should wear a belt.
All the belt really does is give your core something to push off of and therefore keep anything stable. If your core maintains full tension and your back doesn't give out, you don't need a belt.
If you're scared and have driven yourself up a wall about how you need a belt, then you need a belt.
At the end of the day, would you rather be the pussy using a belt to deadlift 135 pounds, or would you rather be the guy who ruined his life deadlifting too much weight and his form fell completely apart when a belt could have saved him? Oh no, not your ego! A back injury is much more favorable to your ego!
If you think you need a belt, you need a belt. The weight doesn't matter. Though it is harder to throw your back out on weights around your bodyweight than it is on weights double your weight but I digress.
And in my opinion, wearing a belt while being weak is much better than wearing fucking underarmor. Anyone who isn't a pro athlete is weak as shit who wears UA. If you see anyone wearing UA, there's your cue that it's safe to belt up.
You might just have literally no muscle.
If what you're doing doesn't cause you pain, or make you way weaker than your other side, then it's not cause for concern.
Lats are hard to feel being hit so I'll skip those. Do some curls and see if you can feel it in your bicep. Do some ohp and lat raises and see if you feel that in your shoulders. Do too many pushups focusing on your pecs every rep and see if you feel that in your pecs.
If you can to all of these and still can't flex on command or notice a difference, you probably have too much fat/too little muscle. Or your nerve is fucked, who knows.
Look up the correct way to flex too. A good test for biceps is just to hold them up in a 90 degree angle, and just spin your fucking hand around with or without flexing. If you notice it changing shape quickly, then you should be alright.