Hey guys, this is my first post here but i’ve been reading for a few months.
I’ve been trying to do overhead squats but i just cant keep my back arched all the way down. I’ve been streaching my hamstrings, but still cant keep the arch. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
[quote]Krollmonster wrote:
luceb wrote:
I’ve done a few OHS squats myself, and find my shoulders giving out pretty quick, Wold you guys consider OHS primarily an upper body exercise?
If your shoulders are fatiguing during OHS, it is probably because your shoulders/chest aren’t loose enough to get you in the right positions. You are probably stuck in a position similar as the final inches of doing a barbell front raise, so you have to “hold” the barbell out in front of you. If you get more flexible, the bar will sit back further and your shoulders won’t get fatigued.
Once you are in the right positions, the bar won’t feel heavy, and won’t feel like you are military pressing it. I find the difficulty becomes keeping the position throughout the squat so I don’t lose the bar to the front or rear. There really isn’t a worry of the arms bending and dropping it on me.[/quote]
Agreed, shoulder flexibility is the key. Once you can lockout your shoulders slightly behind your head as you would do in performing an O-lift snatch your shoulders won’t have to hold the bar up any more as the bar just “sits” in place. Then you only have to concentrate on stopping the elbows bending. You can do this by trying to “pull the bar apart”.