I know you guys aren’t SSCs anymore so maybe this is a loaded question, but I’m just a little curious about the cue to drive the hips. If you watch my squat I’d say I have decent hip drive. I bend over appropriately in the hole to get the bar over the midfoot and out of the hole my back angle stays pretty constant or becomes just slightly more horizontal exhibiting what I think is decent hip drive. However in my head I feel like I’m fighting with everything to drive my chest into the bar because there’s 400 pounds near my shoulders. It feels like if I were to truly think ‘drive hips’ I’d just immediately dump the bar forward. I’m just curious what this cue is actually supposed to mean. Maybe you guys don’t even use this cue, so apologies if it’s a misplaced question.
The phrase hip drive is something we often use to help a lifter understand the ascent, but I don’t think many of us actually cue with that phrase during a lift. And cues are cues-if you are driving with your hip, not raising your chest and/or shifting your weight forward, no one should be cueing you with hip drive since that wouldn’t be something you need to think about right at that moment, you know. A cue must be effective for THAT lifter and given at the appropriate time, otherwise it’s just words being yelled.
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Okay that makes sense. Thanks!