Hey so I just finished the 2nd week of the BBB 3 month challenge and a pretty big problem came up for me… I’ve been squatting all wrong. I spent about 2 weeks beforehand learning how to squat to the best of my ability but I guess my stance was too wide, which is why I have been feeling not that much quad activation these 2 weeks. (wider stance hits glutes and hip muscles more, while narrower hits quads more.)
Anyway I just learned this now after already being 2 weeks in, I’m afraid that if I change my stance to be more narrow and activate my quads more as opposed to my glutes and hip msucles, that I will be unable to handle the weight presented to me so far in. I really really do not want to restart this whole prorgram as it has taken incredible restraint to use lighter weights to start off and progressively building myself up these past 2 weeks instead of using just heavy weight. Should I restart just my squat or did I just throw away 2 weeks Any advice?
I’m with @jdm135 - I advise you not worry about anyone else’s squat.
If something is bothering you, post a video and we can check it out. If all is well but you just think you should be more narrow because the internet said so, I wouldn’t worry about that.
Is your stance objectively wrong - or just a feeling of yours? You chose this stance to begin with, for a reason.
Why not adjust the width in small increments? I mean what difference does 2 cm do anyway? That way you may slowly adjust to a more comfortable/suitable stance. It will not get any easier to adjust this later.
I would even go so far as to say squatting different ways each week just to keep it interesting and fresh is a good thing. Squat feet wide, squat feet closer, camber bar, SSB, to a box etc etc. unless you are trying to prepare for a competition what does it matter? Squatting a weight for reps from all different angles will make you better imho.
Two weeks are certainly not thrown away. Rather it seems to have been a valuable couple of weeks and given you some things to think about moving ahead.
If you have long femurs and are short waisted, you have no choice but a wide stance to use substantial weight squatting. If you want to target your quads more, I would recommend adding leg presses (where you can use a narrower stance) after your squat, or on an entirely different leg day that you might not do squats.
IMO, you should do the squat form that allows you to move the most weight.
I like this idea, and might end up just going a cm or 2 closer to a hip width/shoulder width stance every time I have a squat day as apposed to the stance now which is a bit outside shoulder width
Nothing really wrong with using them, but squatting is the only quad building exercise in my program, (unless your counting the relatively minute quad activation from dead lifting) so I defiantly want to try to reap more quad activation as I can from squatting
IMO… 2 weeks? Two weeks is nothing in this game. If you keep doing it wrong you are just ingraining a bad habit.
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I agree 100% and don’t want to create a habit of crappy squatting, Ill send videos of me squatting to this thread the next time I’m in the gym and if y’all say it sucks than I’ll fix it up
Any advice?