This is toward the end of my sets (with higher weights for me, a relative newbie) to demonstrate my worst form, hopefully. I’m guessing, for starters, I might not be going low enough. Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
Going down too slow and not low enough.
At the bottom of your descent you need to work on sitting back a tiny bit more…you’ll notice the barbell moves forward a little bit before you come out of the hole. While the mechanics of the squat should be thought of as a back and forth movement, the barbell should travel straight up and down.
you depth for ok for a beginner but try to get at 90 degrees, but like Jc said you shift a tad forward but the more weight you work with the better it will come. Also a tip is work on your Abs
First of all you’re not wearing any shoes, what the hell is that?
PS the actual big time technical mistake is not what these nurds said. Nurds see symptoms at best, but rarely the underlying problem. GL and get some god damn foot covers
-Mr Miyagi
The depth isnt the problem, its the result of a few things you can work to improve on. For starters before you set yourself up under the bar pull your shoulderblades together and down, as you pull yourself under the bar force your chest out and elbows down. You should feel some ridiculous tightness in your upper back, and itll allow you ‘pack’ yourself under the bar. Once your under the bar push your neck back into the bar this should create a shelf between your upper traps and rear delts to carry the bar on. You seem to be in a rush to get out of the rack. Dont. Take a deep breath filling you ‘belly’ with air and squat the weight out of the rack. Once the weight settles step back and setup for your set. From what I can tell from the video your foot placement looks fine however assuming you ever want to compete youll probably never get a start command with your hips and knees bent like that. Stand tall, lock your knees. When you start your squat your not initiating the movement with your hips, start the squat by first sitting back with your hips (ass out if you will). Squatting raw I dont believe you need to worry about sitting waay back. It puts unnecessary stress on your lower back and without some serious hip flexibility you will bind up at the hips causing you to cut the squat high like you do in the video. Start the movement by sitting back and then down, externally rotating at the hips (knees out, you naturally have an extended range of motion at the hip and ankle that will allow you to get your knees to the outside of your feet). Driving your knees out on the decent will allow you to open up at your hip joint and sit down maintaining an upright torso. It should also allow you to have an easier time hitting depth and provide you with some stretch reflex out of the hole. Hope this helped!
[quote]daraz wrote:
PS the actual big time technical mistake is not what these nurds said. Nurds see symptoms at best, but rarely the underlying problem. GL and get some god damn foot covers
-Mr Miyagi[/quote]
To be honest if my athletes have running shoes I tell them to take them off because it raises the heels, But ether get wrestling shoes or get the Dead lift slippers if you like to go bare foot.
[quote]RobmoriRB wrote:
[quote]daraz wrote:
PS the actual big time technical mistake is not what these nurds said. Nurds see symptoms at best, but rarely the underlying problem. GL and get some god damn foot covers
-Mr Miyagi[/quote]
To be honest if my athletes have running shoes I tell them to take them off because it raises the heels, But ether get wrestling shoes or get the Dead lift slippers if you like to go bare foot.[/quote]
If mine have skates on I tell them to take that shit off STAT, real men play hockey barefoot