In the video i attached i showed 1st front squat 2 ssb and 3rd back squats
The first two seem to have decent bar path, but my back squat with my heavier and lighter sets seem to have a bar path that starts in the wrong place.
So my questions are :
Is this horrible and needs to be fixed right away or is it not as bad as i feel it is ?
Also, my physio has told me i am a bit twisted and it seems to me some of the other squat variations aren’t as impacted due to bar placement .
I tried a bit lower bar squats, but i still can’t get my bar path to be corrected.
I think it’s certainly something you can work on improving, but I wouldn’t stop progressing my squats to do so. I don’t believe it is dangerous; maybe just a little inefficient.
I think we should all be working to refine these techniques as we continue to get stronger.
Looks good to me. From here, the more you squat, the more efficient it will get. It’s just fine tuning from here.
Also, viewing from the back is helpful if you might be pushing harder with one leg than the other. Coaching is most comprehensive when observed from all angles.
Well, I recently did an overhaul of my own squat during a workshop - and your squat looks biomechanically like a school example to me. As long as you feel alright, I wouldn’t change a thing.
If you feel you are twisted, or suffering from imbalance you may consider slow and light lunges for assistance work. Perhaps under the guidance of your physio?
I honestly appreciate you posting those videos, because they make me feel better about my form on squats. I think I’m falling into a decent groove on low bar, but it looks very similar to how Norton seems to do it, and I get in my head thinking it’s “wrong” even though it feels strong. If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me.
Hell yeah dude. We run into the issue that we take people with ideal proportions for lifts and then assume that the lift they do is the ideal form. Some dudes are built to squat, and when they squat, it looks beautiful. Tom Platz squats up and down like a sewing needle, to paraphrase Kaz. Meanwhile, dudes like Goggins are all limbs and no torso: natural born pullers that, when they squat, it looks like a circus act. But if we’re built like them: it’s how we squat.
This is how i feel!!! I’m only 5 foot zero, but it’s because i have no torso!!! Powerlifting belts take up my entire body lol.
My femurs are longer. I’ve seen a lot of short women squat so beautifully, and i never understood why i couldn’t make mine look like that, but now i realize it’s pretty much impossible and i mostly just get worried that is a “safe form” and not that it’s pretty
I’m of similar build. My wife and I have done a few distance races together, and I never have enough room on my torso to pin my bib to my shirt. I literally have no solar plexus, haha.
It’s not so much the whole bar moving forward as it is your upper body turning a bit. In reality, you’re probably rotating less than 5deg which is fine.
Your form is great, probably better than mine (particularly for front squats).
I also have the “twist” in my squat. From the back it looks like my hips are shifting to the right. When trying to fix it in the gym, it was pointless as I couldn’t diagnose the cause and when it came down to it I had no pain, it just looked odd.
Later on when working with a physio, she discovered that I actually was standing slightly staggered when I squatted due to my walkout. My right foot was an inch or two further forward than my left. This then led to me not being able to force my right knee out as far as it should which led to me shifting to the right during the squat. Once I took the time to make sure my feet were set right and I was keeping my knees tracking with my toes everything lined back up.
Long story short, it may not be something overly technical. I just took it for granted that my feet were set properly. Sometimes you just need to go back over your form to the very basic level to make sure you haven’t developed any glaring bad habits.
I took three screen shots. One of back squat, one of ssb and one of front squat.
Naturally, the bar is over mid foot during front and ssb, but no where near for back squat. And it starts from outter space. Ain’t no where near mid foot.
Why is my back squat so f-ed for path and over mid foot positioning? I feel like i should only do front and ssb squats from now on, but that’s less fun.
Ok sorry for my repeated obsessing over this, but for as long as I’m on this site ill dwell over my squat so buckle up for another 50 yrs.
Thx
Bye
