First attempt to squat after buying the book

[Woe is me]

I tried to get into lifting but too the advice to focus on staying upright and high bar despite have long femurs, small torso and odd hips, constantly got injured or had a bar path that made even the lightest of weight feel extremely heavy due to forcing myself to stay vertical as possible.

I decided to get your book after seeing Layne Norton mention you online (Tnation article of yours he was praising regarding coaching at college football teams etc) and looking up your other articles and books.

Any help would be great.

set 1 40kg x 5:

https://youtu.be/QBI8GjcDsAs


set 2 50kgx5:

https://youtu.be/GKDInjqkqvI


set 3 belted wrist wraps 60kg x 5:

https://youtu.be/ubh6L6bayzw


set 4 70kg x 7:

https://youtu.be/KOznYQu9VT0


set 5 belted with wrist wraps 1x80kg then failed/messed up rep at 80kg

https://youtu.be/P04A22mJyQA


set 6 80kg x1 beltless and no wrist wraps (just to prove to myself I could do it, not impressive but didn't want to get all paranoid after the last failed rep previous set)


https://youtu.be/LyN1wYK554I

[8odin8]

Stats?
Did you actually read the book?

[Woe is me]

I got the kindle version, second edition of the book. I have read it, I am trying my best to look down and drive up rather than push the hips forward, I think I might be over exaggerating it though resulting in odd form.

I am 23, 5 foot 9, around 205lbs probably 30% plus bodyfat.

[Adam Skillin]

Your hips are coming back because they have to in order to hip drive at all. Which means they aren't going back enough on the way down. Which means the knees are going too far forward.

Stop your knees' forward travel by the time you're halfway down. Then you gotta lean over (which means ass back).

Also, stay tight. You're divebombing.

Why did you buy the second edition? Does it describe use of the TUBOW? This may be in your future. I know it doesn't say to do 7's and singles...

[Woe is me]

Your hips are coming back because they have to in order to hip drive at all. Which means they aren't going back enough on the way down. Which means the knees are going too far forward.

Stop your knees' forward travel by the time you're halfway down. Then you gotta lean over (which means ass back).

Also, stay tight. You're divebombing.

Why did you buy the second edition? Does it describe use of the TUBOW? This may be in your future. I know it doesn't say to do 7's and singles...

I didn't actually buy it, my girlfriend bought it for me as I was going to buy the printed copy on Amazon so she just downloaded it for me on her kindle as a gift. It is the second edition and I have read most of it but I have skipped to the pictures and specific points etc.

I will continue to read it, however I don't recall anything on TUBOW. I googled it and I definitely need to watch, er I don't know what to call it, knee slide I guess. However with my femurs I will have to lean over alot to avoid back rounding once I stop knee travel.

[Adam Skillin]

with my femurs I will have to lean over alot to avoid back rounding once I stop knee travel.

Yes. Anthropometry affects back angle. Your girlfriend should have bought you the third edition, which isn't obsolete. Maybe buy it for yourself on her device and hope she doesn't notice the difference?

[Woe is me]

Yes. Anthropometry affects back angle. Your girlfriend should have bought you the third edition, which isn't obsolete. Maybe buy it for yourself on her device and hope she doesn't notice the difference?

Ha! I like your style. To be honest I think I will be buying the book anyway, even though my form still sucks low bar I squatted 80kg without pain today, that is a win for me, no matter how small.

Mark's book helped me do that for the first time, the least I can do is buy the third edition.

By the way that Terribly useful block of wood thing might be the best idea for a piece of woods use since the Romans were nailing people to it. Ingenious.

Would ditching my oly shoes be a good idea to combat my excessive knee travel?

[Adam Skillin]

Would ditching my oly shoes be a good idea to combat my excessive knee travel?

No, stopping your knees from traveling excessively is the course of action. Keep the shoes. Rip advocates squatting in olympic shoes. This is in the book. At least the third edition.

[Woe is me]

It is in my edition too, but I am guessing most people don't have knee travel like me. Or femurs for that matter.

[Adam Skillin]

It is in my edition too, but I am guessing most people don't have knee travel like me. Or femurs for that matter.

Lots of people have lots of anthropometries. Stay mid-foot by sitting back more, not by taking off the shoes.