Holy shit!
You just made this thread worth reading
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if your body is moving up and down, your legs are bending at the hip and knee, then your leg muscles are being activated. Which means they will grow if you eat sufficiently for this to occur. All other issues are secondary. You don’t need to get sore for your legs to grow. You don’t need the lift to ‘feel’ a particular way. You don’t need to have an upright torso. None of those things matter. Trust the process. I honestly think you’re probably just not working hard enough.
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6"11 but yeah
Do you have long levers, like arms and legs
Yeah fair enough, my main concern was just the pain I was getting in my back, so I just assumed it was a form issue, thanks for the advice.
That face clap video was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. I shouted “no way” out loud. Everyone is looking at me
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Well, I think we could use more information regarding your issue:
1.) What type of squat or squats are you doing? Front? Upper back? Lower back? There are different ways to perform these squats, so knowing which one(s) you’re engaging in can help us improve your form by giving your guidance and cues.
2.) When you do workout, where does your body feel sore from doing these squats if not in the legs? Lower back?
3.) Who said for knees not to go past the toes? This is a myth that people stated would harm your knees, but the fact of the matter is that your knees can go past your toes, but you should be keeping your knees aligned with your toes and even pushed out a bit to engage more muscles. With the front squat your knees will far surpass your toes; with upper back squats they will surpass your toes, albeit less; with lower back squats you have limited dorsiflexion, so your knees won’t be going past your toes.
4.) What cues are you using? By reading Starting Strength I learned about Hip Drive, which means rather than just “standing up” from the hole in a squat you push up with your hips (as if someone had their hand on your lower back right at the top of your pelvic girdle). With this there must be caution used, because people have bad habits up allowing the hips to shoot up way too quickly, turning squats into a “Good Morning,” which is an OK exercise, but not with the amount of weight people generally use to squat with. Hips and shoulders should rise in unison, basically.
Well the issue has basically come down to squats being a glute dominant exercise and I think my knees are taking a lot of load too, because they seem to get sore afterwards, I did experiment with pushing my hips as far back as I could but this made it feel really awkward for me, and in regards to hip drive I feel like I’ve always used my hips coming out of the hole, which puts a lot of work in my glites.
Nothing really gets sore for me after squats, but I can never up the weight because I just lose form.
It is? Actually it depends on allot of factors.
Remind me again of your body weight and on average the amount of weight your using on your working sets.
after squatting or after a work out? Regardless your knee pain probably has more to do with the stupid amount of volume your doing.You also haven’t mentioned any type of hamstring work ,
No. He is 6’11 but has 4 inch long arms and legs. Its quite horrifying, actually.
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Your knee muscles? Like…your legs?
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Add another 12" 
Hasn’t this already been established in like the 100thousand threads that have been posted that you need to stop worrying, go eat a f*cking shit tonne of good whole foods, and just lift and squat, and eat some more, then squat some more, eat whilst you lift, squat whilst lifting and then eat some more?
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Not using high volume, always staying below 10 reps and I do stiff rads for my hamstrings , I’m 6"2 and weigh 73kg
Stifflegdeadlifts*
So I’m guessing you do?
Do you reckon (if you don’t mind) you could post a video of you squatting? Just so I could see how you do it and compare it to mine? Thanks
could you please define what high volume is in your mind?
this thread is going from ridiculous to retarded.
You squat 35k. When you get stronger you will feel it in your legs more.
There is no other advice you need at this stage.
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Above 12 reps, so I’ve been told anyway
That is not volume …That is a rep range. Volume encompasses the entire amount of work you do in a session!