Compared to keeping them more "straight on"?
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02-03-2012, 10:13 AM #2
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Nothing. It is just a more natural way to point your toes during a squat, so your knees can track over your toes. Especially during a wider stance.
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02-03-2012, 10:15 AM #3
If your knees aren't tracking over your toes they are twisting. You don't want to load a twisted knee. If your knees don't track out, then it is virtually impossible to get to parallel. So to get to parallel your knees have to track out, and to do it without twisting your kness, your toes have to point out too.
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02-03-2012, 10:17 AM #4
Not an expert on this by a long shot, but my understanding is having them pointed out gives you more stability, also noticed that when I do that, I am working on strengthening the under active muscles. On the flip side, I personally like to have my knees point the same direction as my toes. It's hard to squat when your knees are pointed out.. ( A lot of weight that is )
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02-03-2012, 10:19 AM #5
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02-03-2012, 10:20 AM #6
Makes it feel a little more comfortable at the knees. And I can actually feel my hamstrings getting hit more so than with straight position.
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02-03-2012, 11:52 AM #11
Since the knee probably doesn't like twisting, pointing the toes out probably has a tendency to encourage the hip joint to abduct and externally rotate, right?
So, related Q: what sort of diffs might exist between narrow stance pushing with knees/toes forward (probably could do this more dramatically on a leg press machine since you don't need to balance) and wider-stance pushing with knees/toes outward (variations of this get called 'sumo'/'plie' squats, right?)
Usually people say something like "adductors", but it doesn't seem to get a lot of analysis.
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02-03-2012, 02:31 PM #12
Probably doesn't get a lot of analysis because pebbles be busy actually squatting in place of theorizing potential theoretical possibilities of what might be if they try it through subjective floating clouds of wonderment.
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Empirical data > postdeconstructivist barbell paradigms denoting consciousness of neonarrative back squat dialecticism.
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Nope, I've been holding off. Knowing i wanted to and probably should, but waiting to see if he posted something worthwhile so I wouldn't.
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