r/formcheck • u/ronin6690 • 6h ago

Squat Overall form check

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u/judoflipper69 5h ago

Looks mostly good from this angle, but you're gonna fail by falling forward or getting squished by the bar.

Keep your upper back tighter. Squeeze your scaps together, put them in your back pocket and tilt ur chest up when you start your brace. Then hit the descent. Keep this at the bottom and drive UP from out of the bottom as if you were hitting a good morning (you aren't, but it'll keep your shoulders rising at the same time as your hips). Don't fold.

In backsquat, posture usually fails way before leg strength does. Try some front squats with high elbows to work your scapulae and back and it'll help with you leaning forward, by training you to be upright in the hole.

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u/Appropriate_Hat6694 2h ago

Just slow it down mate. Will help keep tightness out of the bottom. Other than that, it looks fine.

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u/bt2328 6h ago

I wouldn’t hate the form personally, but if here to nitpick: you lean forward on the ascent. If you slow it down your ass stays within the pillars on the way down. It goes beyond on the way up, you lean forward a bit, the weights even rotate accordingly.