Need a form check, I try to get the best angle for what I have to work with. Any legit critique would be nice
BW: 162LB
SQUAT 5X5 275lb. Set 3 in video
My 2 cents:
- a touch high, an inch-ish
- bar seems a bit high on your back/shoulders, which leads on to the below
- it looks you are looking at your reflection rather than on the floor, which results in a more upright torso on the descent and knees sliding forward and then due to the weight are forced into a bit less upright on the ascent, which then puts the knees in a better position with less knee slide
In short, a bit high, descent too upright, ascent seems fair.
More or less agree with teddyd.
- Definitely look at the ground 3-5 ft in front of you–don’t squat in front of a mirror, if you can help it. It’s just a distraction.
- Bend over and reach your hips back. If you do that while staying balanced in the mid-foot, it should help w/ your back angle.
- Take a big breath and SQUEEZE as hard as you can from the top all the way through the movement. You might also consider getting a belt to you help you brace.
I’m not sure you’re high from this angle. Maybe take a video from the side to check that specifically.
I’m also not sure the bar is high on your back. Double check that it is just below the spine of the scapula, not on your traps.
Thanks to both of you. I have a side video recorded from today. I tried to impliment what both of you told me. I feel like i shove my knees out to much and not toward enough… you can see it alot in the first video. What do you guys think about that? Even when I do try to shove them toward and not out as much they just open at the bottom anyways.
These are certainly deep enough. You could probably cut them off a little earlier, actually.
As to the knee thing, you could try a slightly wider stance and turn the toes out slightly less. For comparison, look at Austin squatting. Austin Baraki, MD on Instagram: "610 x 1 (PR), followed by 515x4, 505x4 x 2 sets. • Fortunately was able to maintain positioning a bit better compared to last week’s 605, though I think I may have cut it a hair higher to do so. Regardless, things are moving along! • The cool thing is noticing how much the regular, weekly practice handling heavy singles helps at this point in a training cycle. Combined with the gradually increasing weight week to week, it makes these sorts of efforts feel less taxing from a physical and a psychological standpoint - after all, it’s not ✌️heavy✌️ compared to what you already did last week - and therefore is less fatiguing overall. • Onward! • Belt & Sleeves: SBD Shirt: @LFTbig Shorts: @roguefitness Shoes: @Adidas Power Perfect IIs Deadlift shoes (not shown, because this is a squat): @Nike Davinhos"
It seems like you are pretty flexible, and can shove your knees out past the edge of your foot. Focus on setting them early and in line with your feet, rather than just shoving them out as hard and far as you can.
The thing I notice most is the hips shooting back/rising faster than the chest which is common in the classic good morning squat as exaggerated in my avatar. However, you don’t seem to be doing a morning squat. I think you may actually be keeping too upright on the way down and then reverting to squatting correctly only on the second half.
It’s kind of like you are trying to do this squat but then thanks to low bar position you can’t actually lift it that way and it has to morph to more resemble a low bar squat:
Honestly man I’m just trying to go down in a way I feel balanced lol. And I tried to implement the more vertical back angle as they described in the second video, but obviously since it’s from the side angle you can’t see it… because i wanrwd to make sure I was parellel. So is this information coming from both videos or just one? Aswell how could I fix this issue. I don’t think I’m doing a sumo squat… As far as feet placement goes because I’m pretty narrow just toes point out. But I do feel I knee out like the sumo squat. So any suggestions to correct these issues? Thanks