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When you are descending, spread your buttcheeks apart. This will reduce tension in your lower back, any maybe allow you to utilize the glutes more as you are rising.
I can across this technique the other day when I noticed that there is some tension in my lower back as I descend for the squat. I know that most of the time, tension that occurs in the lower back is actually supposed to be in the glutes. So, for my next set, I imagined letting the tension build up in my glutes instead of my lower back, and my butt cheeks spread apart.
I also feel that this technique allows you to come up with more force. As most of you know from this thread:
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=635238&highlight=squeeze+glutes
squeezing the glutes is very important for the squat. I feel that spreading the butt cheeks during the descend allows you to have much more span to squeeze the glutes together for the rise, allowing more force to be generated by the glutes. Its like how an increase in the pull a bow string will result in greater force applied to the arrow. Or, how an increase in the stretch of a spring will result in that spring compressing with more force. It feels this way to me, but, I also acknowledge that this might be a placebo affect. It will take a few more squat sessions for me to figure this out. The reduction in lower back tenseness I know for sure.
This also makes sense. Your spread your knees out, so why not the butt cheeks? Get me some feed back guys, try this technique out and let me know how it goes for both the lower back tension and the glute force.
-Styles
I can across this technique the other day when I noticed that there is some tension in my lower back as I descend for the squat. I know that most of the time, tension that occurs in the lower back is actually supposed to be in the glutes. So, for my next set, I imagined letting the tension build up in my glutes instead of my lower back, and my butt cheeks spread apart.
I also feel that this technique allows you to come up with more force. As most of you know from this thread:
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/showthread.php?t=635238&highlight=squeeze+glutes
squeezing the glutes is very important for the squat. I feel that spreading the butt cheeks during the descend allows you to have much more span to squeeze the glutes together for the rise, allowing more force to be generated by the glutes. Its like how an increase in the pull a bow string will result in greater force applied to the arrow. Or, how an increase in the stretch of a spring will result in that spring compressing with more force. It feels this way to me, but, I also acknowledge that this might be a placebo affect. It will take a few more squat sessions for me to figure this out. The reduction in lower back tenseness I know for sure.
This also makes sense. Your spread your knees out, so why not the butt cheeks? Get me some feed back guys, try this technique out and let me know how it goes for both the lower back tension and the glute force.
-Styles