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Originally Posted by TomHimself
I have nAturally wide hips pretty sure. Not sure how that affects things?
I filmed my Friday squat session @272.5 with a slightly narrower stance and there was some significant knee cave. Then today I squatted 275 a little more wide (still think not as wide as original video) and I felt less knee cave.
My right knee still does cave a bit and I do think it's a mechanism that helps my strength (almost like a slingshot? Or something idk). But I plan to just keep adding weight while I can
I'll post the embarrassing knee cave video later
You have to accept that knee cave is:
1. inefficient and will limit the ceiling of what you can squat
2. high risk of injury (especially with prior acl injuries)
3. symptomatic of strength imbalances
Additionally, the lack of depth of your squats is further developing the strength imbalances.
Bringing your stance in wasnt ever going to cure your knee cave. But it will allow you to learn to squat correctly AND develop the appropriate muscle balance to do so over time. There isn't a quick fix here.
Do you deadlift? Why are you attached to lifting more weight?