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Oni, I reckon you can afford to adopt a more knees forward position with your squats, which will result in a more upright position. It will allow you to utilised quad drive more. I am long femured person as well. Sitting back just didn't work for me.
Oni, I reckon you can afford to adopt a more knees forward position with your squats, which will result in a more upright position. It will allow you to utilised quad drive more. I am long femured person as well. Sitting back just didn't work for me.
Got any videos of you squatting?
I've looked at all the dudes with similar proportions to me and they all squat in a similar fashion. I'd like to be able to abduct my knees more, I think this would help- but it feels like my hips won't allow it as I can't really stretch into this position. I don't really feel like my hamstrings are loaded either
Maybe my stance needs to be wider. I don't sit back btw, I break at hips and aim to drop straight down
My high bar squatting is even worse
Plus I need to lift the most weight possible, lengthening my levers won't help things. Sure I'll be more upright but it would take a good 40kg off my squat
Plus I need to lift the most weight possible, lengthening my levers won't help things. Sure I'll be more upright but it would take a good 40kg off my squat
When I could squat my favorite was no handed SSB squats. If you lean forwards at all the bar dumps you. That sort of squatting got me stronger than any low bar squats ever did.
Do you really believe you are the only one ever with long arms and long legs to squat or bench.
Well I am going to ignore the people here that don't compete in powerlifting and can't squat due to medical reasons and sought after the advice of people that actually put up decent numbers like Scott, Dan America, Pritchard and Jamie Lewis
My squats are fine but I could do with slowly widening my stance over time
"i actually dont think your squat looks too bad. if i was coaching you in person there are a couple of little adjustments that i'd make but nothing essentially wrong with it. a little lean forward isn't that bad for raw squatting provided you dont lose your lower back posture" - Daniel America
"From the front, it doesn't look to bad, from the side would give a better idea." - Scott Wasson
"It's fine, stop worrying about stupid shit" - Jamie Lewis
"The squats look alright and the stance and movement good. Work on holding the knee drive out throughout." - Pritchard
Yeah I'm probably going to ignore the people that say I am not upright
A good peice of advice i got was to try and sit down directly between your knees, this will push your knees out and help keep you upright, rather then pushing back or dropping forward.
What you really think if you followed these top lifters advise you would have seriously maxed out at a natural 80kg bench. Lol. Don't give me the levers shit.
Maxed out at 80kg on bench press as a natural? So he jumped on AAS to break through this "plateau"? My recovery ability is crap due to a nervous system disorder, and I still hit 80kg on bench after a couple of months, training by myself as well.
Should I jump on the gear to get passed 100kg? It's starting to feel really heavy.