Oh look, ANOTHER Squat form check.

[ResonantDissonance]

Hey guys, critique my squat. I'm not going low enough. For the life of me, i can't figure out why.

I keep a stance of about 25 inches, point my toes according to SS, and I push my knees out over my toes.

Halp, please.

[ResonantDissonance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dMTtxsjpbg

[Carlos Daniel]

Easy. Your pants are the problem.

[ResonantDissonance]

I recorded another video of my half squats, this time wearing shorts.

I just cannot go deep! What am I doing wrong? Also, I tried using the low bar position, but every time I rose up from the bottom of the squat, my left tricep keep having serious pain, possibly from the weighted dips and/or OHP from Tuesday.

Here is a video of my DL, seems like my lower back is rounding.

I am so frustrated, I really want to master these lifts.

Here is DL, lower your volume too before you click link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq_DOuAtOAU

And the squat, lower your volume unless you like static. My camera is excrement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoyU3MprdNk

Thanks guys.

[Brodie Butland]

Try feet in and knees out--see what happens.

Also seems that the bar is a bit high and that your head isn't down.

And did I see you looking over to the side on one of the reps? Tsk tsk.

[ResonantDissonance]

Hehe, you caught me.

My heels where shoulder width apart, approximately 21 inches.

I had the high bar position.

I am confused on the low bar. When I try it, it feels unnatural and painful, especially on my left tricep or posterior deltoid.

[Brodie Butland]

Hehe, you caught me.

I am confused on the low bar. When I try it, it feels unnatural and painful, especially on my left tricep or posterior deltoid.

It takes some getting used to. I used to have horrible pain with it, but two things fixed that: (1) for warmup sets, I start with hands far apart, and gradually work my way in--by the work sets, I'm where I need to be. (2) I make sure that my hands are towards the top of the bar, so that I'm pushing it down into my back--that way I know my arms aren't supporting the bar.

[ResonantDissonance]

Alright, thanks.

Ill try that out. Ill head back to the gym tomorrow so I can try this out.

[Carlos Daniel]

There's nothing stopping you from going lower. Just go down for fuck's sake. You see how you're sorta stopping and reversing the direction on the bottom? that tells me you're not at the limit of your hamstring's extensibility. If necesssary, do it with just the bar. Squat and film until you can go low enough.