Squat PR

[Tagio]

hit 290x1 on full oly back squats today. in 2 months I will have trained for 1 year, I want to get 3 plates by then. (bodyweight about 185)

Also I failed on 300 today. I'd like to get people's input on what my 'weak link' is. I fail on squats by my legs and ass coming up and tipping me forwardso I'm in a GM position where I lose the weight and have to put it down. This is either weak erectors or hams, right? I have a feeling it's weak erectors from my emphasis on squat/oly movements without much RDL/SLDL/GM work. I'm planning to fix it with RDLs and GMs being emphasized in my next training cycles. sound good?

 

[coolcolj]

Nice!

People may disagree with me, but I say weak quads

 

[Tweakle]

getting near a major milestone there, good job.

 

[Tagio]

Interesting, CCJ! what makes you say that?

 

[Nonerz]

It's hard to tell without more description or a vid/pics.

I fail on squats by my legs and ass coming up and tipping me forwardso I'm in a GM position where I lose the weight and have to put it down.

Congrats on the PR...that's always a good thing!

 

[earl-o-bolic]

squat

Hey whats going on man,

I sounds like that when u fail you are tipping foward. I use to have that problem but I found by lowering the bar down your back a bit will help to pull u backward, so when or if u do fail its because your legs could not push u up, not because your torso was being pulled foward. Many of the olympic squaters place the bar very low on their back, u might not need to go this low, at least place the bar under your traps.

Warning: this might take time to get use to, the strength and conditioning coach as Arizona State told me it take an average of 1000 reps to correct form in lifts.

Good luck, keep working hard

 

[coolcolj]

Interesting, CCJ! what makes you say that?

well simple biomechanics. Notice when you frontsquat, when it gets hard you lean forward to get the glutes and lower back to help you lift the weight?

Well same thing applies here . Muscles determine the groove.
The body knows which muscles are stronger, so it tries to use them when things get tough, but your quads can't keep up and so you backside shoots up and you fall forward.

You just have to lean back and force the quads to do their work, but if they are weaker then you get stapled

off course weak posterior chain can also apply as well
But the posterior chain is stronger and has better leverage than the quads generally speaking.