As others have said on this forum before- If you spent years not doing X (not doing mobility work/not building up your conditioning/being fat/etc), it’s unrealistic to expect that you can fix it within a short time frame.
Again though -I find it bizarre that you can front squat well but not back squat. While I understand the point of hitting depth better + having better hip mobility, my bad flexibility in my left ankle messes up both squat variants and I have the same kind of hip shifting/weight distribution going on in both as they get heavier.
They’re close enough movements such that whatever weakness you have in one should be visible in the other.
As far as I know, the major difference between the front squat and the back squat is there’s only one real feasible way of executing the front squat, whereas with the back squat there’s actually several different ways depending on where exactly the bar is placed and how mobile you are.
Ergo- if you have left knee issues and hip issues with the back squat that doesn’t exist in the front squat, then there is likely to be an issue with the way you’re executing the back squat.
Yeah, the only benefit I see with that is the fact that the dude is sitting in a deep squat position
Muscle tightness is a subjective feeling that does not correlate with range of motion. In fact, the People that have the longest ranges of motion (the most “mobile” people) experience the most “tightness”. Sure it’s annoying but it doesn’t mean anything really.
There is literally no evidence of foam rolling doing anything. Just squatting more would have a better outcome for you.
How about tweaking that to a lower or even higher bar version?
yeah, i’ve noticed that when i don’t foam roll nothing really happens. i do like using a cricket/lacrosse ball though
i will try this, i know the squat is individual to making it feel good, i have longer arms and a longer back but still longish legs so i have weird proportions for squat, good for deadlift though.
Todays lifting Barbell Continental Clean and push press
75kg×3 sets of 5 PR
Back squat triples 115-125-135
Banded glute ham raises 3×5
External rotators
4×20 skipped because it was pissing me off, need to find a better external rotator exercise that I can figure out. Coach sent me a new one to try today but it was even worse than the one I was doing previously so hm
In all seriousness though, My coach has given me some mobility stuff to do which has been pretty helpful, but besides that nothing that has really helped my squat technique or issues. Plus, people on here could perhaps pick up on things my coach is missing. My coach Is great (Actually hes amazing and my friend also) but just only started coaching a few months ago so I cannot expect him to be able to know everything, although he is very knowledgeable and strong, coaching isnt an easy task especially when starting out. Im one of the first few people he is coaching. According to him I’m the easiest to coach lol. Anyway, my technique has improved on every lift but I feel my back squat is just ugly as hell with so many things wrong with it I needed to ask tnation for extra help lol
The main problem is that your knees are caving in when you come up. Do some clam shells and glute bridges (in that order) before squatting to get your glutes fired up and learn to screw your feet into the floor when you squat (Duffin has a bunch of stuff on this if you don’t understand). It also looks like there might be some left-right imbalance, but it could be the camera angle. Take a video directly from behind (not on an angle) and from the side as well.
