No but literally whats wrong with it, I feel so strong when I do them this way.
For starters, you're bent over WAY too much. You need to get a lot tighter arch, and keep the back angle at 45 degrees. you're barely breaking parallel, but i'm sure it feels like you're going deeper than you are because you're good morning it so much
I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong except maybe getting my gut out more.. Last rep was held on pins on purpose lol.
you might want to not lean foward quite so much. you might want to go a little lower. you might want to lower the weight a bit as that looks like a maximal load. you wouldnt check your form with your 2 or 3rm.
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those squats do look a bit like good mornings, do you allways do that with your back or does the heavier wieght slide down and force you into leaning forward like that.
id sugest holding the bar higher up and try get you back closer to 90degrees cos at the bottom of that last rep your almost at 180, good back strength tho, apart from that they good to me, also if you can read the box squats article or squating buy dave tait on t-nation that helped me alot with my squats and its usually that article i quote/reference when helping people out with their squats.
people ask me how to train, and i answer "i look at what you do and then i do the exact oposite"
if your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you'd start squatting every day
you have excessive forward lean, but, that's likely due to muscular imbalances. Likely, like me your back, overpowers your legs (probably due to leverages) To combat this, i'd try to hit my legs (specifically hamstrings) hard, ghr's, reverse hypers, rdl's, goodmornings by sticking your ass out REALLY far, box squats, even the blashpemous leg curl. Also work on flexibility, remove the pins, and try holding the bar a little bit higher on your back.
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you might want to not lean foward quite so much. you might want to go a little lower. you might want to lower the weight a bit as that looks like a maximal load. you wouldnt check your form with your 2 or 3rm.
That was my 5th set of 3 reps with that weight, I can do that weight for about 5-7 reps.
those squats do look a bit like good mornings, do you allways do that with your back or does the heavier wieght slide down and force you into leaning forward like that.
id sugest holding the bar higher up and try get you back closer to 90degrees cos at the bottom of that last rep your almost at 180, good back strength tho, apart from that they good to me, also if you can read the box squats article or squating buy dave tait on t-nation that helped me alot with my squats and its usually that article i quote/reference when helping people out with their squats.
I always tend to lean more forward as I feel much stronger this way. I keep the bar low on my back for better leverage, but it sometimes slips from my back as it did twice in that squat session.
No thanks on the box squats, I did westside barbell for months with no added poundage to my squat or bench.
I always tend to lean more forward as I feel much stronger this way. I keep the bar low on my back for better leverage, but it sometimes slips from my back as it did twice in that squat session.
No thanks on the box squats, I did westside barbell for months with no added poundage to my squat or bench.
box =/= Westside Barbell
They were doing box squats overseas before they started to do them at the original Westside in culver city in the 60's and 70's.
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Originally Posted by Edo
I always tend to lean more forward as I feel much stronger this way. I keep the bar low on my back for better leverage, but it sometimes slips from my back as it did twice in that squat session.
No thanks on the box squats, I did westside barbell for months with no added poundage to my squat or bench.
you don't have to do box squats but some of the form tips on it are good, like widening your stance to squat deeper, driving ur neck back into the bar, the breathing part all helped me. but i'm guessing that uve read it if you know it's about box squats.
people ask me how to train, and i answer "i look at what you do and then i do the exact oposite"
if your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you'd start squatting every day
you don't have to do box squats but some of the form tips on it are good, like widening your stance to squat deeper, driving ur neck back into the bar, the breathing part all helped me. but i'm guessing that uve read it if you know it's about box squats.
I always tend to lean more forward as I feel much stronger this way. I keep the bar low on my back for better leverage, but it sometimes slips from my back as it did twice in that squat session.
No thanks on the box squats, I did westside barbell for months with no added poundage to my squat or bench.
well...you're not stronger this way.
you don't "do westside barbell" unless you're at Westside in Columbus, Ohio.
box squatting is not the program as Jason said.
and if you utilized a program based off of Westside's principles for months and didn't add a single pound...you were DOING IT WRONG, and most likely are too inexperienced to gain on advanced programming.
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you don't "do westside barbell" unless you're at Westside in Columbus, Ohio.
box squatting is not the program as Jason said.
and if you utilized a program based off of Westside's principles for months and didn't add a single pound...you were DOING IT WRONG, and most likely are too inexperienced to gain on advanced programming.
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