Kerpal
07-02-2010, 02:05 AM
I don't feel anything in my hamstrings when I squat, and they never get sore from squatting. My quads, glutes and adductors get sore, but never my hamstrings. They do get sore from deadlifting, and I tried sumo deadlifts once and they were sore for days afterward.
I recently met an experienced powerlifter who competes in the USAPL and asked him to look at my squat form. He said SS was a great book to learn the lifts and other than telling me to walk the weight out more carefully and switch to a thumbs-around grip, he thought my squat form was perfect. He specifically pointed out several things also said in the book: I wasn't rounding my back at the bottom, I was pushing my knees out, my knees weren't sliding forward, etc. However, this was during my recovery day (I'm doing the Texas Method) and I was only using 270 lbs; it's a lot easier to have good form with light weight :o
Is this anything I should be concerned about, or do some people's hamstrings just not contribute as much to the movement? I know my hamstrings have gotten much stronger since I started training because I can do many reps of glute-ham raises and I doubt I'd have been able to do 1 when I started lifting. I have noticed that when I bring my stance out wider than shoulder width I feel my hamstrings a bit during the squat, but I have to get pretty wide to do this and it makes my knees and adductors hurt.
If it matters, I recently hit 405 lbs for a single in the squat and my max deadlift so far has been 475.
I recently met an experienced powerlifter who competes in the USAPL and asked him to look at my squat form. He said SS was a great book to learn the lifts and other than telling me to walk the weight out more carefully and switch to a thumbs-around grip, he thought my squat form was perfect. He specifically pointed out several things also said in the book: I wasn't rounding my back at the bottom, I was pushing my knees out, my knees weren't sliding forward, etc. However, this was during my recovery day (I'm doing the Texas Method) and I was only using 270 lbs; it's a lot easier to have good form with light weight :o
Is this anything I should be concerned about, or do some people's hamstrings just not contribute as much to the movement? I know my hamstrings have gotten much stronger since I started training because I can do many reps of glute-ham raises and I doubt I'd have been able to do 1 when I started lifting. I have noticed that when I bring my stance out wider than shoulder width I feel my hamstrings a bit during the squat, but I have to get pretty wide to do this and it makes my knees and adductors hurt.
If it matters, I recently hit 405 lbs for a single in the squat and my max deadlift so far has been 475.