Squat form check - low back pain

[thatnewguy]

Hi All,

Looking for some feedback on my squat form. Long story short I'm on the 5/3/1 program now, but I've deloaded a bit due to some low back pain. I had gotten up to 340 for a single several months ago (before the back pain), but almost certain I wasn't reaching full depth.

I suspected that in attempting to keep my knees from sliding too far forward, I was also keeping myself from reaching depth, so I've been trying to allow a little more knee movement. I feel like I'm definitely getting deeper than I had been, but I'm afraid I'm still not hitting full depth, and might be letting my knees move forward too much.

All of these are from this morning (06/24):

135x5 warmup (sorry for the crappy angle):
https://goo.gl/photos/ovksvmrJXSWE3cjP8

215x5:
https://goo.gl/photos/6WJDZERLx7ntzbbu7

245x3:
https://goo.gl/photos/PeLqLBz7tXEJKFnN9

270x1:
https://goo.gl/photos/SMQ24bAga5BKFw7w8


- Am I getting deep enough?
- Knees too far forward?
- It looks like my low back is rounding at the bottom of most reps... Is that excessive? Possible source of back pain?



I'll be posting a deadlift form check shortly as well.

[Tom K]

Only looked at 245. You never look set, your feet dance all over the place. Stop moving them around between reps. You come up on your toes at the top of the rep. Stop that. Your knees slide at the bottom, look up TUBOW protocol in the book and here on the forum. Hard to tell but your stance looks narrow. Depth looks fine. Shove your knees OUT and keep them out. http://startingstrength.com/articles...2_rippetoe.pdf