Squat Form Check

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I know the quality is bad, its my friend using my phone. but how does my form look?

2

Shitty. worse than mine.

Your squatting with your knee over your toes, you let the weight fold you over, your not tight as all

and you dont go to parallel.

I see 185 on the bar, take off the plates and just work with 90 pounds until your form is good. Yeah its tough to do, I’m having trouble myself.

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From my perspective, it looks like you need a lot of work to fix your form.

  1. You are not going deep enough

  2. Your back is rounding which is causing you to almost look like you are going to fall forward on the way up.
    You should have a natural arch.

  3. Looks like you are tight around the hips also

  4. Some say to fix your problem is stretching and box squats so you can learn to sit back. I had the same problem until I changed bar placement, dropped weight and work hard on form and technique. I watched a lot of videos and mimic people’s movement on the squat with a PCV pipe with bodyweight.

  5. Look up Mark Rippetoe also. he provides good advise on squatting.

If you are relatively new to squatting, then it will take time to correct the problem. Lose the ego and work on your form by watching videos of folks on here like maurader meat or watch PL videos on youtube.

Good luck and it takes time and effort.

4

I don’t know what happened to the video. I’ll try some of these suggestions tomorrow and try to get a new video.

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your form needs some work bro, i applaud you for trying to squat since most people dont. my $.02:

  1. your flexibility in the hips needs some work, stretch your hip flexors 2-3 times per day and foam roll (i use a rolling pin). this link also has some good mobility drills that can be used (scroll about 2/3 of the way down)
    http://www.defrancostraining.com/ask_joe/archives/ask_joe_08-10-03.html

  2. check out mark rippetoe’s youtube videos, he can teach the squat better than i can. he covers foot placement, decent (breaking with the hips before the knee, which is a problem for you), and depth (you have a solid 6 inches or so to get to parallel)

  3. get the bar lower on your back, my coach told me to “cradle” the bar between the top of my shoulder blades and my traps. this provides a better “foundation” and puts the body in a more powerful position.

take our advice and make a conscious effort to fix your technique and the weight will come with time. post another video once you make changes so we can give you more feedback. best of luck to you.