Squats 3-3-08

[OGROKTEHUBER]

You deadlifted 500. Congratulations. However, your squat sucks. Here is how you can squat 405 in a month:

1. Take off these olympic lifting shoes and wear a flat shoe. If you want to move big weights you must learn to use your hamstrings.

2. Widen your stance and squat back instead of forward. This will engage the hips and hamstrings, reduce your ROM and build absolute power

3. Put the bar down low on your back to reduce the lever arm.

4. Learn how to box squat

[barutmt]

Thanks. This video is pretty old.

[CosmicOsmo]

Right, because no olympic lifters ever squatted big weights in their silly shoes with their high-bar, close-stance form.

[OGROKTEHUBER]

The powerlifting stance allows you to move bigger weights and produce greater overall strength gains than the olympic stance . Olympic lifters squat the way they do in order to become better at the olympic lifts. Also from what I remember, many olifters don't back squat at all b/c the front squat is what is most effective for their goals.

[CosmicOsmo]

I'll give you that a PL stance will let you move bigger weights, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to prove that a PL squat is more conducive to overall strength or athletic performance than a deep Oly squat. It's ridiculous to just drop a blanket statement like "your squat sucks" just because it's oly style, and imply that a PL squat is flat-out superior...especially when so many very ridiculously strong guys use the Oly style. Tell Koklyaev that his squat "sucks" because he squats Oly style.

[OGROKTEHUBER]

It doesn't suck because it's olympic style, it sucks because it's only 330 and he is deadlifting 500. It seems pretty simple to me that what he is doing with his squats is not making him as strong as possible.

[tweakyj]

Knees are going way too forward. Makes my patellon tendons hurt watching you. You need to strengthen your posterior chain and learn to sit back.

[jaseybiggs]

Seriously, if you are ever in the Pittsburgh area, come and hit a training session with me.

[TheAscendant]

feet apart about 2-3 inches. It looks like you're TRYING to drop in between your legs (which is awesome) but can't quite do it because your legs are a little too close together.

[TheAscendant]

Category and tags...

Observations:

-your core was wobbly at the start of the second set

-your 1st rep (and the second rep on the last set) on the second set was your best, your ass didn't raise before it was supposed to

-Nice job bracing/breathing

-You're just not throwing your hips enough. When you see oly lifters come out of the catch position and the bar *bounces* at the top of the squat, it's because once they COULD accelerate (via hip thrust) they DID.

-Last, I would honestly bring your