The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

you always want to drive from the middle of your foot, people only say drive through the heels for beginner to get use to ham and glute activation.

 

knees in front of your foot is better for lumbar, less likely to get hurt, knees inline with foot you have better hip and ham drive, and you feel stronger because your lower back is helping on the way up, hence why most elite powerlifters are low bar squatters.

 

Driving through your heals insures they wont come up, cause it they do, youll have 2 opposite twisting forces on your knee ligaments with your tibia going on way and your femur going the other.

What advantage does the mid foot give?

 

Agreed. If you weren't sure though. You would want to at the very least make sure you don't lean forward.

Sorry it very hard to explain form by words but if you look like the guy in my pic above your doing good. Your quads should feel it more then anything else and make sure to keep your back straight

 

Wow

 

Knees should never go past toes.

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When you squat no matter what style you do, bar is always over the middle of your foot, from start to finish, as the weights get heavy, the importance of balance is crucial, favoring one side will make the lifter tilt forward or back. also when you drive through your midfoot, you balancing the activation between your ham and glutes and your quads. If the lifter is having issues with heel coming up, have them do ankle and hip mobility.

 

can't take you seriously, i know girls that lift more than you.

come at me bro

 

don't you have a suit to be wearing?

Front of heel...middle of foot....whats the difference?

 

What weight are those plates. No way there 45

 

Not to brag but i can squat more than that, and im a nobody that man is a olympian, that's prbly only his warm up.

http://youtu.be/VcEsmhVag1c?t=1m44s

 

That's what I'm saying that seems really light for someone like him. But I know that they have plates that are up to 100 lb each so I was thinking that's what it was

 

he's just warming up. keep in mind most athletes in the olympics are heavily doped.

 

Growth hormone is the new steroid because "normal levels vary" for everyone

And in low dosage therapy, it delays aging.

 

If you can squat enough to bend the bar I wouldn't say you are nobody-at least not in the gym; I think they are 100s

x2

 

And people wonder why dudes in hollywood never age and can put on mass like mad.

 

I need to fucking learn how to lobar


been working on my DL form, think I'm starting to get it dialed in

eric saw me on a real shit day , been working on hip drive and the initial pull
I think I should buy a belt...

 

when someone looks at you from the side, they should see the bar moving in a linear motion

 

fuck, I can't make the same joke I said when you sent me that. hahaha

 

Back straight and upright is fine, you just have to have really flexible hip flexors and ankles, other wise your back is gonna curve when you hit full depth, aka excessive buttwink.