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How's the form on this one? I try thinking to let my knees going forward. There's a tightness feeling on my lower back is that normal?
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When I'm at the bottom position, should you feel flexed? Or when you're at the bottom position should you feel flexed? What does it mean to "feel flexed?" These are the kinds of questions that we need to answer. But I don't know what they mean.Originally Posted by evry1lovej
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http://youtu.be/F6VDvUOYmAE
How's the form on this one? I try thinking to let my knees going forward. There's a tightness feeling on my lower back is that normal?
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Back's not in extension, can't see the bar position, but these look like high bar squats, and there's no hip drive anywhere to be found. You need to learn to straighten your back, get the bar in the right spot, TUBOW so you can get the knees to the right place and quickly as you begin the descent, and hip drive out of the bottom.
Do you have the book? I'd start on chapter 1. Hope you don't take that as offensive, but these are all complex steps, and you really are in need of starting from square 1.
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I thought my back was in extention. I had chest up and felt my back arched
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Alright I did the form or tried too. These are the videos.
Squat
http://youtu.be/HomHm0CqMvA
Deadlift
http://youtu.be/JVCqLpy1CQU
I also watch rippetoes video on the lower back control. For some reason when I do it my butt doesn't go up but my glutes contract
Last edited by evry1lovej; 01-23-2015 at 05:22 PM.
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Also when I squat, when I think of my back a bit more horizontal I feel like I'm going to fall in front of me. With the weight on my back it pushes my body forward. How do I keep it so my back is in extemtions
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BUMP hey guys I did the squats again today and I think I got the hip drive and knees down. Please let me know if there's nything else
http://youtu.be/ZPId880MqKw
http://youtu.be/QQQW4XGkFZY
This one the guy didn't get the knees but you see a little bit of it.
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This is a decent start. Notice how much better your hip drive is when you look down (reps 3-4) versus in the mirror (rep 1)? Still a couple things to work on.
(1) You have a tendency to break your hips first, and then try to get the knees out later. Think about breaking the knees first to correct this--you want to unlock your knees and hips at the same time. Then set your knees in their final place in the first third to half of the descent, and leave them there.
(2) Shove knees out harder. They're still a little wobbly at the bottom.
(3) You could use a little more tightness in your abs and lower back...sometimes you have a tendency to get a little loose. Really clamp down hard, especially as you approach the bottom.
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The weight appears to be way too light to see what form problems can really develop--typically the real form problems we see occur around at least 85% of a 5RM...really light weight form issues can often correct themselves simply by adding more weight. Try to do something a little closer to your 5RM next time for a better evaluation. Also be sure to show your entire setup from start to finish.
That said, here's what I see.
(1) I think you'll have to do a couple supermans to really understand what contracting the lower back feels like, because you have some issues with it in this video. You're not completely loose, but it's not a hard contraction either.
(2) Slow down a bit...take a little more time to really pull your chest up and get another good breath in between reps.
By the way, why are there only three reps here?
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