I am trying to switch from high bar to low bar, but am unable to go as low down as others, I don’t have the shoulder mobility yet to hold the bar easily.
Please let me know how my form is, depth, etc. It feels like I’m going down past parallel on a couple and is un-needed depth, but others look not quite high enough. I don’t have the “feel” for depth yet as I have new shoes (no heal), and am doing low bar, so I haven’t a clue when I hit depth right now.
1st rep: Close
2nd rep: good
3-5 rep: High.
you need to sit back more and break at the hips. Your descending knees first and its causing a ton of forward knee movement and caused a near collapse on your last rep.
that is the same weight in high bar, but for 3 reps. Is that form any better?
The sitting back more I think I understand, pretend like I’m going to sit down on something (to an extent) opposed to pushing the knees forward to make parallel, right?
Correct. You wanna sit back with knees being pushed out. You should not have much forward knee movement when low bar squatting its all about the hips.
Correct. You wanna sit back with knees being pushed out. You should not have much forward knee movement when low bar squatting its all about the hips.
k, thanks. My next squat session is Friday, so I’ll focus on sitting back on all my lifts, and video all warm ups so I can tell if I am doing it right or not.
Do you have a good video of someone low bar squatting from the same angle that I can view so I can compare, then I know what to really look for on Friday.
I also felt really weak on the first video, I don’t know if it was due to bad form or what, but the set of 3 was a breeze, but the 5 was so damn hard. 3 was high bar, 5 was low bar, and 5 was 2 weeks after the set of 3, so assuming form or from my flu I had last week.
Here’s a good low bar squatter
Ok, I can definitely see the difference now. It’s as if my knees go forward about 8 inches to a foot before I even start a descent. Obviously you can’t go straight back, but I will try to get that forward movement down to around a couple inches.
It’s like I’m adding almost a foot of lift to my squat that isn’t needed!
I am not the strongest squatter but here are some videos of me where you can see pretty minimal forward knee movement and breaking at the hips from a few different angles.
Thanks for the videos.
Yesterday was front squat day, and I tried to focus on form. It’s probably easier to have better form on front squat, but take a look and let me know if you see an improvement.
Here is my last squat session, I think there were some improvements, especially towards the top 1/2 with driving my hips through.
These are great for learning the “sit back” thing and keeping your chest up. Coached by JL Holdsworth. As far as depth goes, maybe set something up like a box, at depth, but when your but touches you know you are there. A 5 gallon bucket works for me typically as a depth “feeler gauge”. keeps things honest at least.
