Squat form check - Beginner

[xTeax]

Hi guys,

I'm Max from Germany, so at first, I'm sorry for my english, but I'll try to make my point clear.

Primary I'm into Thaiboxing, so I need functional strength.
At first I tried the 5x5 program and I really got stronger. Than I met a guy at the gym and he told me about SS.
So I bought the book and was really excited. He advised me to try low bar squats instead of high bar and it feels so much better now. Im 6″3 and with low bar squats I can go deeper than ever

So, I'm into the SS Squats for 2 month now and I just wanna to know your opinion about my squats and I'm looking forward to hear some tipps to get better and stronger.
At the moment I'm doing not much weight, it's more about getting into this technical stuff.

By the way, what do you think about combining Thaiboxing with SS? Because of having not enough time, I can do SS just twice a week.

Thanks for reading and watching <3

https://vimeo.com/151189893

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Need to get deeper. Your squats are high. You've got to get your knees set and stop that knee slide

[Tiburon]

Because of having not enough time, I can do SS just twice a week.

That's not SS. Read the book

[Adam Skillin]

Primary I'm into Thaiboxing, so I need functional strength.

What other kind is there? Get weightlifting shoes, sort that depth, and get your knees to their spot earlier during the descent.

[HandPlaneSteve]

Stop thinking so much. You're worrying about where your ass needs to be and aren't getting even close. Your friend isn't helping you hit depth, that's plain to see.

You need to learn what a proper squat feels like. Break out the TUBOW. Think WIDE KNEES and keep going down until your friend says you break parallel by 1".

Then, go down a little quicker and learn the stretch reflex. Others call it the bounce. That'll make squats easy for a while (well into the mid 300lb range for you).

Seriously, barely meeting parallel will do you no favors when things get heavy. Better to exceed the standard now. You'll learn what your back needs to feel like for correct depth doing TUBOW and lift coach prompting for a few weeks.

[bhara]

I agree with everything above.

I'm the cunt that told him to squat higher as the knee slide was getting bad at the bottom (of course I also tried to fix the knee slide).

Shouldn't have cut so much depth off, and green lit depth, thats my bad.

The not-TUBOWing yet, programming and shoes are not.

Edit: can someone link the article?interview? where Rip...
Fuck it.

10:00 - 15:00.
https://youtu.be/neDNCoGy9Gs

Thanks.

[xTeax]

Hi guys,

I just wanna to share my progress with you, hopefully you can see some progress, too.



My main question is, what do you think about my back? When I squat it feels okay, but watching this vid makes me questioning if my back is to horizontal ?!

What I already know is, that I still have a little bit of knee slide. Im working on that, but an excuse could be, that it was my all time PR on this set.
Second one is, that i have to get more "flow" into the movement. I still have to focus on ever aspect of the movement and thats why I do it in two steps.
1st knees, than hips. I know it should go together, I'll try my best to fix it.

Please give me you opinion and feedback, thanks for reading and watching.

In the end just let me say, shoes make a big different!!!!

X

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Still looked high. hard to see much as the camera work is not very good.

[xTeax]

Thats true, I think the depth is okay but if you dont agree tell me.
Whats more important to me is my back. What do you think about that?

[wlangstroth]

Thats true, I think the depth is okay but if you dont agree tell me.
Whats more important to me is my back. What do you think about that?

Depth is easy to figure out. The crease of your shorts has to dip below the height of the top of your patellas.

Don't worry about your back, it's not too horizontal. Usually people think that when they move from a high bar squat to a low bar squat.