Originally Posted by
DaveSev
I know I'm not him, but I noticed it looking sideways in a mirror as well, doing light warmup sets. I hope he isn't doing working sets looking sideways though >_>
I identified a few problems in my squat...the first was going unnecessarily deep, and the second was not letting my knees slide forward ENOUGH...I think. Obviously your knees sliding forward isn't necessary, and too much is a bad thing. Previously my knees were sliding forward, and I think I overcompensated, which caused my back to round.
So to fix the depth issue I started doing box squats. I'm also stretching by getting into the bottom of the squat with a bar on my back and holding it (while sitting on the box), making sure my butt isn't winking.
I also tried stretching before lifting, which has helped. I noticed that as my sets went on, my wink lessened, possibly because I was more stretched out. Of course, not many people advocate stretching before lifting, and for good reason, so hopefully I don't always have to do this (I'm talking static stretching, not dynamic stretching).