Squat Form Check -- Please and thank you :-)

[syllogismejazz]

Brand new here. Been squatting for about 1.5 years (on and off with lower back issues).

A gym colleague/friend gave me really good advice on breathing and "neutral back" and such.

This set felt RIGHT in my body. Only 130lbs however. I hope this feeling stays when loads go higher.


Here's the video:
YouTube



Any comments/feedback welcome! :-)

Thanks x10,000

[CremaKing]

Looks good to me, no obvious errors. I would say keep adding weight.

[Brian Sloan]

^I concur! Go forth and do great things.

[syllogismejazz]

Thank you very much Brian and CremaKing.

I'm up to 145 today (from 130 when I posted the video) and everything still feels right :-)

[Satch12879]

Your back angle is changing through the entirety of the movement. Watch what it does from initiation of the movement down to the bottom. You keep leaning over as you get to depth in order to help you get depth. The back angle is to be set right away and shouldn't change until you've stood up again. Depth is achieved via sitting back with the hips/butt and is accomplished by shoving your knees out. This video is poor in that it doesn't show us you stance, bar position on your back, what your knees are doing, etc.

On the ascent, you have almost no hip drive. You are essentially just standing up out of the bottom and going in reverse from what you are doing on the descent. Drive your butt up into the air while maintaining the back angle. Don't raise your chest coming out of the bottom.

[samking7185]

Your back angle is changing through the entirety of the movement.

Agree with this... You need to get your back angle set quicker.

This is my favorite video

YouTube

This video is poor in that it doesn't show us you stance, bar position on your back, what your knees are doing, etc.

For squats, a rear quartering view is best. Here's some more detail

Posting to the Technique Forum

[Mark Rippetoe]

Is my back angle too high?

[syllogismejazz]

(Original poster here)

THANKS a lot for your criticism, I'm currently working on integrating everything you mentioned.

Namely:
-Keep back angle constant throughout the movement (it's set at the beginning)
-Drive up from the hips
-Don't raise the chest on the way up! (consequence of changing back angle). This is not a "good morning"
-Use the "Art of Manliness" tutorial on Youtube

--> NEXT TIME, use best practices for submitting videos (rear-quarter angle)




I will be practicing and posting again soon!

1000x Thanks


PS
If there's a Starting Strength seminar in Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal (Canada), I'm here!

[syllogismejazz]

Hello forum!

Here's a follow up video on my squat technique (150 lbs, 5 reps):

YouTube


Further comments welcomed! :-)

M-A