Relaxation comes of squatting too low, since you can't get "too low" unless you relax something. The pre-bar part of the learning is designed to fix this problem to the extent it can be without a load.
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Developing Body Awareness
Keeping it brief out of respect for everyone's time.
New to squatting. Read the book. Understand the book. Understand that squatting high is a capital offense. Figure a video can't help me while I'm actually squatting; only thing that can help (other than a coach, which I don't have) is having excellent awareness of where my body is at any given moment...I'm working on that.
In the meantime, I figure that, by definition, if I go as low as I possibly can, I can't possibly be high.
Question: can any ill come of squatting too low?
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Relaxation comes of squatting too low, since you can't get "too low" unless you relax something. The pre-bar part of the learning is designed to fix this problem to the extent it can be without a load.
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Learning to sit back and rebound off the tension in your hamstrings can be a difficult thing to learn for someone new to this stuff without a lot of body awareness.
I am convinced that along with the practice/repetition of doing the movement, this becomes easier to learn after a few weeks because you actually start to develop some hamstrings, thus making it easier to develop/feel tension in them during a squat.
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I.e., I won't be able to move as great a load as I would if I kept my muscles under tension and there is such a thing as too great a rom for a squat.
Ironically, the load itself answered my question this morning. First time with a new weight and I got stuck deep in the hole. Just went past a certain point and could feel the whole thing go slack...then I'm squatting there, cheeks to floor, wondering "what the hell do I do now?"
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Videoing your lifts is no substitute for proper coaching, rest assured, but in the absence of a coach, it is absolutely indispensable to your training. While you won't be getting feedback during the midst of a set, you can at least identify problems between sets and try to remedy them. I use one for this very purpose, and because I am a vain son of a bitch who like to look at himself.Originally Posted by BPIII
-Stacey
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As handsome a guy as you are Stacey, I can understand.
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