Squat Form Check #3, After Back Tweak 1mo Ago
Hello Again Coaches,
How does my form look here, in this most recent 3rd set of squats at 110kg? Am I maintaining good form or have things been deteriorating? (My gut tells me my bar position still might not be low enough and I'm "good morning-ing" too much on the way up).
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Here's that same workout, 110kg, for the second set, from the left side and a little closer:
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(BTW, when I grip the bar correctly, thumbless with straight wrists, my left index finger comes up & the fingertip catches under the bar. I know this is just due to my head injury, but is this really in any way, not having the index finger wrapped around the bar?)
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(This next part is about my failed set when I tweaked my back about a month ago, and I'm only posting these two vids in case there's some obvious form flaw that caused the pain. Though my guess is it was just laziness in not creating enough tightness while bracing before the lift.)
I'm working my way back up after tweaking my back about a month ago, here, on the second set of 110kg:
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And here's the first set from that day, where I completed all five reps just fine; as I recall I did feel some tightness or just discomfort in my lower back as I completed the reps:
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This was my second "back pain incident" since beginning that Stronglifts program (out of ignorance) in 8/2018 then switching to SS in about December. This time the pain was much less in that I could get around in daily life and felt fine except when lifting.
Anyway, after that back tweak I just followed y'all's excellent recommendations and just kept lifting to fix the pain; of course with much less weight, with 3/4 squats at first and for the first two days back I couldn't even bend over properly to grab the bar for deadlifts. But after two weeks everything got back to normal and 100kg on the bar felt fine for The Lifts, so yes, fellow lifters, you really should just keep lifting after you hurt your back!!
For your reference, here's my previous thread where Coach Rippetoe helped me correct high bar position and a lower back that was in awful flexion:
https://startingstrength.com/resourc...ml#post1742287
Thank you for your assistance and your time!!