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you initiate the squat by breaking at the knees, starting with the hips will usually result in lower back rounding when squatting deep.
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you initiate the squat by breaking at the knees, starting with the hips will usually result in lower back rounding when squatting deep.
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Yes. But i
Not only "no" (as witnessed by his fallacious reasoning and by just about any squat vid you will find online by a competent squatter), but if you take a look at the actual squat vids from that same dude's channel, he breaks at the hips and knees concurrently.
Example: at 0:22 of this vid he breaks concurrently and the hips and knees (exaggerating hip flexion over knee flexion):
Please provide a video of yourself squatting.
Example: at 0:22 of this vid he breaks concurrently and the hips and knees (exaggerating hip flexion over knee flexion):
why?
You mentioned to break concurrently in a high bar and hips first in a low bar squat before. But Candito is squatting low bar there I think.
Thats also what always was my impression (low bar at least). Youre supposed to break concurrently but for some people "break at the hips first" is a cue to make them sit back more when in reality they still dont break at the hips first.
This thread is confusing me lol.
Because if you are going to make the "that guy is an expert, therefore everything he says about squat form must be correct" argument, then your own level of squatting expertise matters when it comes to how competent you are at assessing the validity of his position.
On that same note, if you are making the argument "this guy squats more, therefore he must be correct", your own numbers also matter for the validity of your own opinion. So what is your height and bodyweight and how much do you squat?
5.10, 162 lbs, do sets with 235, PR is 265. But I have a lot of back problems from a car crash, so not really important numbers... That does however not exclude me from studying the subject... I don
Candito says:
- "by leading with the hips it forces them into an awkward bottom position where their lower-back is rounded"
- "[initiating the squat by breaking at the knees] is simply the only way to avoid your lower back from rounding"
- At 1:20 he shows the (presumably) different bottom positions when breaking at the hips and knees.
Here is the problem with these assertions: they are wrong. I can find you tons videos of squatters who don't break at the knees first, and who reach good depth with zero lower-back rounding.
As a matter of fact, breaking at the knees first is one of the most common mistakes beginners tend make when squatting and can lead to knee health issues.
TL;DR: If you want to educate yourself on proper squatting form, watch a lot of vids from a lot of different competent squatters.
Lol.
SD, you just don't get it.
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The tons of vids you can find are usually of more or less experienced squatters. For beginners his advice is certainly solid and will help prevent buttwink when going ATG. I have certainly seen many people starting a squat like an ugly good morning because sitting back with a bar on your back doesn
... Why should a beginner squat any differently than an experienced squatter? Shouldn't they instead be squatting depending on their body shape and the position of the bar on their back?
I wasn't aware that the whole "break at knees first" is a controversial opinion. Afaik, the whole break at both the knees and hips is the new and "controversial" opinion.