Lately I’ve noticed that my squats are getting sloppy technique-wise. When I go down my hip goes back too far and I kinda drop down to a squat/good morning combination, when coming back up it’s more like a leg extension followed by a good morning rather than a proper squat from the hips.
I think this might be due to hip inflexibility/weakness?
Can anyone give me some pointers what the matter might be and how to solve this?
Egh?
Go to youtube, find videos of a good form (e can tell you here if they are good or not) and make sure you do it that way…
Your description is odd.
The form you describe is your body’s way of using the strongest muscles to get the job done. If your knees lock without producing much bar movement, you’ve taken the quads out of the exercise. When you good-morning the weight up, you’re using your hams to do the bulk of the work.
There is no magic bullet. Drop the weight and focus on technique. Do plenty of hip mobility, and possibly glute activation.
The SquatRX series on youtube is quite good.
Try pushing your knees out and dropping back and down when you decend. Also arch hard, keep your elbows down, and your chest up coming out of the hole.
[quote]Pinto wrote:
Try pushing your knees out and dropping back and down when you decend. Also arch hard, keep your elbows down, and your chest up coming out of the hole.[/quote]
x2 on the keeping your chest up. Sounds like it’s dropping, thus making you have to GM the weight up.
I’m not a beginner, I know how to squat… what I’m saying is that I can’t seem to do it correctly because something is holding me back.
On keeping the chest up, exactly what happens… it drops when I go down. I know I have to keep it’s just not happening.
Could the fact that my deadlift is much stronger than any other of my lifts be the cause that I tend to GM the weight up? Would it help to isolate the quadriceps then?
try switching to Front Squats for a bit, you will not be able to use the form you describe on these and will be forced to improve the muscles that are holding you back.
Maybe check your set up when taking bar out of rack, also try thinking of keeping your chest in front of the bar when you squat.
Keeping the bar lower on your shoulders/back might help. But I would try to drop the weight a little and try to grind out the technique for a few weeks, and then gradually work the weight back up.
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
try switching to Front Squats for a bit, you will not be able to use the form you describe on these and will be forced to improve the muscles that are holding you back.[/quote]
x2