 Let's discuss when you have a tight neck while you're squatting. So generally what's happening is you're not relaxed in some accessory breathing musculature up in your neck. Your traps here are trying to breathe in for you and they're trying to support weight for you and you're not relying on your legs. Generally when someone is feeling a really tight neck while they're squatting they're not feeling their legs fatiguing so much or they're doing this to avoid loading them. Now I point right here it's in in more specifics it's all the quad and it's especially some hamstring too and even those glutes. So when I'm finishing a movement I need to be able to drive my hips forward without over shooting forward and without shrugging up at all. The big way that you'll see this is in a goblet squat when you're holding weight especially because the weight is too heavy. Let's say I can't squat my sweatshirt here and I start to curl forward a little bit. It collapses me and my shoulders shrug up because I don't have the strength to maintain good posture while I'm squatting down. So generally the back well-round the shoulders will shrug up and then you'll come back up. Now doing that afterwards after the squat is over you'll feel that tightness. If you're feeling this tightness again you need to look into the positions so you don't need to just cue your shoulders down sometimes that's enough sometimes it's because there's too much weight so you can cue or there's too much weight and you need to choose a more appropriate weight. Sometimes you just need to find the position of the lower body. Now that's kind of a good segue into one thing that I would caution you not to do. The fix here is not to shut your neck off. That never works. If I say don't think of a purple cow the only thing you can think of is a purple cow right? So instead of saying don't shut my neck off don't shut my neck off oh my god it's still on I want you to say okay let me find the right hip position that allows me to feel my legs moving and my muscles getting tired when I'm doing my squats. One cue that I'll give a lot of people is okay I want you to try to make your legs as tired as you can or if you feel some burning make them burn more or steer into it maybe lean into it. I want you to feel that embrace it get comfortable with it it'll be over soon okay so keep that in mind maybe you can cue yourself out of it maybe you're having too much weight or holding too much weight or trying to squat too much weight this can happen in a barbell squat as well it's the same principle it just really well illustrated with the goblet squat so cue too much weight and then hip position make the legs tired.