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Originally Posted by Arnie591
As far as learning proper squat/deadlifting/press techniques - Help from a solid trainer/coach at the gym is often the best way to go.
Pretty sure my form is already better than anything the trainers at my gym would do or teach.
Cha is the closest thing I have to a coach. So blame him
. Although I haven't lifted with him in many weeks as he's been out of commission.
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Originally Posted by cha59
Its not just you.
Hmmm, what do I fix my lower back rounding? Do those back setting mobility things Ripp had that video on right beforehand? Concentrate more on keeping that area tight?
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Originally Posted by milesdyson
the warm ups are parallel or just below. everything else looks high, getting worse as you go on mostly. maybe first rep of first work set is to parallel but it's hard to tell from that angle. it almost looks like you are trying to get your body to do something it doesn't want to do. can't exactly pin it down, but you could start by fully extending at the knee and hip (well as much as you can extend at the hip for low bar squats) between reps. i find it weird how common this is btw.
This is extremely helpful. When you say do something it doesn't want to do, you mean stopping too high? Or at some other point during the squat I'm doing weird stuff?
And for full extension do you mean just locking my knees out at the top of the squat rather than keeping them bent?
I guess my form isn't awful based on the comments. I realized while lifting I probably wasn't going down below parallel, I've had some past issues with going down far and then just failing reps so I'm trying to not go too far below parallel.