Honestly, I have no say in this . since I've never done this variation of squats before . Heck I didn't even know this exercise even exist lol

Hi guys, I've just recently started squatting regularly (before this just once in a while) since I began Stronglifts. However I'm not too sure about my form, please critique

P.S. I use the plates to make up for poor ankle mobility (learned that trick online and it does help reach greater depth so I stuck with it). Btw I'm 6'2" with long limbs

Any tips/suggestions are welcome

Try avoid wearing cushioned sport shoe to squat. It makes you so unstable and shaky during whole squat session. Wear hard sole shoe like converse or just squat barefoot if you can't afford squat shoe. Either improve your ankle mobility or just invest a squat shoe will be better option than squatting on weight plate. I did that before but as weight goes up, you are increasing your chance of injury due to accident.

Depth seems fine and just hit parallel.

But when you lowering your body, make it as a whole movement. Don't separate upper body and lower body. You are lowering your upper body and bend your knees after that. Do both at once and not doing it separately. You only did this correctly during your first and second reps.

For your first reps, always take a big breath and brace your core before you start squatting. Control the weight and don't rush.

Thanks bro, really appreciate your comments

Btw, where can I buy weightlifting/squat shoes?

Don't think you can get it from any local store. I bought mine from china. I think you had to search around the net.

Use the bench rack. Rack the bar on the highest point, facing the bench and bar, put your back under the bar. Lift the bar off the rack, step back and away from the bench. Do your squats, step forward towards the bench and rack the bar.

Dangerous if you've reached failure so a spotter is mandatory if you're squatting heavy.

Chuck taylor RM100++. I prefer barefoot.

Hey guys. Been facing this problem for the past two weeks. For some weird reason when I'm deadlifting and squatting, the heel of my right leg tends to go up and not stay firm on the floor. I tried forcing it down but it involuntarily still comes up for some unknown reason. Any idea why?

Additional info: I lift barefoot and have tried dropping weights but still the same. Also problem just began like 2-3 weeks back. Never faced this before. Problems oy on right leg.

Thank you!

This may sound stupid but I think you should wear shorts for squatting. Wearing unstrechable track bottom like the one you wear may hinder free movement of squatting. But that just me

squat down slowly, do you feel tightness on your right leg? Could be lack of mobility on that leg...

Dont feel any tightness what so ever. Mobility definitely is lacking as i had a groin injury + i was a fat fck, and im still working on mobility, but im sure thats not the problem. This thing has only plagued me for the past 2 odd weeks. Never had this problem prior, ruling out mobility...right?

Asked a doctr friend of mine, he said my calf's could be a little tensed, and he recommended stretching them out.

sorry may be a bit late for this reply but your squat is totally wrong

looking at the video, especially towards the last few reps, you are bending down your upper body first before you bend your knee, as if you are trying to do good morning. thats the problem with using plates under your feet as it pushed your body slight forward, throw that plate away and squat with your feet flat on the floor, also, dont do low bar.

and rule of thumb, your knee shouldnt be passing your toe when you squat

you are skinny so I dont think why you have mobility issue.

Guys I need some expert here. I always arch my back since young so now I have problem doing deadlift with straighten back. It will always bend no matter how much I try straightening it. Do you think if I get the weightlifting belt it will be helpful for me ?

You could try to do Superman Exercise. I have a friend who have "bongkok udang" and I fixed his back for deadlift using this exercises. Bear in mind, it's painful.

You could do bent over rows

stretch frequently during your off day

stretch before you perform the exercise

make sure your form is correct

if you are doing dead lift, make sure you reach the bar by bending your knees, not your back, then look forward, tighten your core, arms lock, tigthen your grip and drive your leg up as if you are doing leg press. keep looking forward and never look down, tighten your hips and drive it forward as if you are banging your chicks hard.

I dont want to open new tered but i am hoping u guys help me here. I have been doing training with Land Mine for the past few weeks. Now i am having mild lower back pain. I am afraid my technique was wrong but i had my instructor checking on me during the training and he said was all fine.
My question is how to get rid of this lower back pain. Somehow it is disturbing me. I did cobra post everymorning and it will go a way for a while and come back after wards.

Thanks sifu.

Most probably that you have weak lower back and the pain being triggered due to you need to brace and lock your lower back while doing the Landmine.

What I will suggest you to do is hyper-extension to strenghen the lower back area.

stretch before and after

what kind of land mine exercise you did?

thanks sifu, will try that.

I did various. but the pain started to develop after I did LM rowing.

like alien said, you might have a weak lower back then, if you are doing rowing, try to lower the weight down and work it way up to develop the lower back strength, and most importantly listen to your own body, your coach might see nothing wrong with the form but truth is not everyone is the same, some people have long torso, some have short, etc etc. just like doing deadlift, tall people do it differently than short people.

so get the general idea on how the correct form should be and adjust your body position correctly, as the lower back is the most easily miss positioned of all the other body parts.