Please critique my form - squat

[Bitt]

Recorded one of my warm up sets.

[JakeAus]

Looks like you have a partial curve developing in your lower back at the bottom of the rep.

Work on Hamstring and hip flexability and try to eliminate that issue. It should allow you to squat a little deeper and without that rounding developing.

Otherwise not too terrible but I think a little work on flexability, and maybe hamstring and glute strength could improve your form.

[sciup]

If you can I'd use a normal squat rack as opposed to the smith machine. You work all kinds of stabilizer muscles that way and it would eliminate the partial rounding the person above mentioned. The reason being is that it looks like if you did that with free weights then you would fall forward. Other than that just try to go a little lower. Looks like you're barely hitting 90 and are above it sometimes. Also your feet seem to be pointing out a bit too much but it may just be the angle it was recorded at too. Just make sure your feet aren't pointing out like people who walk like penguins.

[PeterGibbons316]

- NEVER RACK THE WEIGHT BEHIND YOU. Turn around and rack that **** in front of you. Every time.
- Form check vids should be with your worksets - not warmups. Your form tends to break down when the weight gets heavy, and this is where it is easiest to diagnose your issues.
- That machine is weird, can you do them in a squat rack?
- You aren't going deep enough, which is especially bad for warmups.

[supbrew]

Not a professional by any means but:

-Use a proper squat rack if you have access to one.
-Gotta get parrallel or breaking parrallel (Quads parrallel to the ground, NOT hamstrings)
- And yeah Always try un-rack and rack the weights infront of you, not behind

Hope this helped.

[randyyle]

sit down lower
rack properly
go lower

[matjusm]

I can see a perfectly good (and empty) half rack right behind that Smith machine in your video which leads me to question: what the hell are you doing in that Smith machine?

[DPNZ]

• Feet need to be much further forward if you're squatting on the Smith machine

• That's not your warm-up set at all. Not sure why you said it was... it was clearly difficult

• As others have said, if you're going to request form crits on a movement like Squats, actually DO Squats with a free bar

• Lastly, your back is curving too much as you come up. Drop the weight. Lead with your a$$ as if you were going into a sitting position then push through your heals as you come up while keeping as upright as your body will allow without hurting

[Bitt]

The only reason I don't use the squat rack is because the finish position on the rack is too high or too low for a comfortable position.

And just out of curiosity, why should you squat with the rack in front of you? Safer?