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RW, She can squat on my face any day!

I'll send an email telling her to get in line.

she stops for 6 months and that ass goes pickle barrel

You want the shins to remain behind the toes and as close to perpendicular to the floor as possible. Westside is big on setting back when you squat not sitting down.


Overhead Squats are the real deal. Nothing like being a good squatter and having to start with a broom stick to make you feel like a panzy. I managed to workup to 225x3 and 300x1 but the 300x1 was on the pins of a power rack in the bottom position so I didn't have to pop it overhead first.

And now you know why her azz is super-sized!

Not everyone has the same proportions of lower leg length, femur length, or torso length. All of these affect body position in the squat. Folks like me with long femurs will always look wrong to benchman for knees too far forward of feet and wrong to everyone else for flattening back angle. So, I have the choice of either not squatting because I can't "do it right" in their collective opinions, or just doing it.

Points of emphasis:
1. feet flat on floor, weight centered between heels and arches.
2. Torso straight (not arched, not bowed), deep breath, build abdomen pressure by tightening abs and attempting to exhale against your closed glottis (throat). This unitizes your torso and keeps it straight.
3. Depth to hips below knees, with top of thighs parallel or deeper. Don't use the squish in your knee joint to bounce against - that's too deep for most (exception for elite olympic lifters). Your glutes and hams have a contraction reflex at or below that depth, which you can train to trigger getting out of the hole.

btt

My squats involve TP. Form is important!

I choose door #1

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I see what you did there..........