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    Default Lowbar Squat Form Check Episode 2

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    Hey, newbie here

    posted last week a form check thread, got some really helpful responses, figured I'd ask you guys again if I managed to improve anything, and if not, what I'm still doing wrong

    here's the form video
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbJvJmbDyIg
    I was thinking that maybe I go too deep?
    Last edited by Moregnan; 04-07-2015 at 10:58 AM.

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    Can't get a glimpse of the knee angle from this view, but it looks fairly solid. Head neutral/eyes down, not too much forward/backward knee travel, hip drive looks decent in most reps. If I were to be nit-picky, I'd say you're actually a little too deep for the low bar which is causing some lower back rounding and a closed knee angle. Try to keep your knees a little more steady (the movement I see looks like inconsistency and not repeated error). Use your warm up sets to ingrain the movement and stay tight. You could even slow down a little bit as the weight looks fairly light.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darowe View Post
    Can't get a glimpse of the knee angle from this view, but it looks fairly solid. Head neutral/eyes down, not too much forward/backward knee travel, hip drive looks decent in most reps. If I were to be nit-picky, I'd say you're actually a little too deep for the low bar which is causing some lower back rounding and a closed knee angle. Try to keep your knees a little more steady (the movement I see looks like inconsistency and not repeated error). Use your warm up sets to ingrain the movement and stay tight. You could even slow down a little bit as the weight looks fairly light.
    I saw the same thing...your too deep...if you pause the vid at the bottom you will see what darowe is saying....also it looks like you heels come up a bit which is also cause back the back rounding...when you go too deep while trying to maintain your angles you tend to lean more forward causing the heels to rise....imo

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    Looks too loose, too fast, really dive-bombing the whole. Tighten your shit up, drop down, get a little bounce and pop back up. Maybe try TUBOW

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    I should have emphasized maintaining a firm isometric contraction of your spinal erectors/core. It is VITAL that you do not sacrifice tightness for depth. Issues of depth in LBBS are usually associated with forward knee travel or a bar path tends forward and not actual flexibility.

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