[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
mom-in-MD wrote:
Hi MM-
We appreciate that you are here, and are willing to help!
I’ll take a turn if you don’t mind 
I’m not a bodybuilder or a power lfiter, but I take my lifting seriously. I have set a few goals for myself, and one of them is to get a 200lb+ squat by my 30th b-day in August…I had a shitty max attempt a couple weeks ago of 175, haha…I’m really trying to clean up form, and keep things in mind(elbows forward, chest up, etc) Trying to break the bad habit of letting my butt lead me out of the hole…
Here is my squat from this week:
Not perfect, but getting better! Any advice or tips on progression to make my goal happen? Aside from working on better form, that much I know…THANKS!!
form is pretty damn good. a few things to work on.
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get your neck back into the bar. i can tell there’s a mirror in front of you. NEVER look into the mirror. if you have to, turn around and face the other way. push your neck into the bar and keep it there. i tell people first learning to do this to put a baseball cap on backwards and keep the bill on their traps the entire time.
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take a deep breath before you squat and then hold it throughout the lift. it appears that you are breathing during the rep. this makes it impossible to stay tight. exhale just as you are locking out.
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keep working on getting the elbows down and then forced forward as you are coming out of the hole.
definitely one of the better squats i’ve seen.
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This is a problem I have too, I’ve hung towels in the cage in front of me to block the mirror.