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    Default Squat form check

    Hi everyone, here is a little background info:
    I have restarted the program after a long layoff and knee tendonitis. I am now 5 weeks into the program and started feeling knee pain and back soreness within the last few workouts. The back soreness appears during the set and sometimes continues eve after the workout. The knee pain appears only during the warmup and after the workout when I cool down. In addition I started having "clicks"coming from my hip region when I raise one of my knees above my hip joint and then lower it . The "click" isnt painful just wondering whats causing it.

    Here's the last workset from a week ago:


    Thank you for your help.
    Last edited by iOfek; 08-20-2012 at 06:40 PM.

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    you aren't going nearly deep enough. take 50 pounds off the bar and try to do a real squat

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tiburon View Post
    you aren't going nearly deep enough. take 50 pounds off the bar and try to do a real squat
    OK thank you I will lower the weight and go deeper. I guess I paid too much attention to other details that I forgot the basics. hope it will solve all the problems I mentioned above. I will upload a new video with a deep squat next workout. Thanks again.

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    You are maybe an inch or two high on your last few reps, but nothing terrible. Don't take 50 pounds off the bar. If you need to take 10 off, do so, but your squat is actually reasonably well sorted. The knee pain will hopefully clear up as you go below parallel. You could use to drive your knees out further and look downward. The first two reps looked pretty good.

    There are a lot of things that can make your back hurt. You would need to be more specific in order for anyone to speak in something besides generalities.

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    Thank you for your comment, the shorts I was wearing was limiting my depth, heres another squat done with heavier weight:

    as for the back pain it is in the lower spinal erectors in the point above the glutes and it usually stops a few minutes after the squats. Is it normal soreness?

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