Woefully weak squat! Serious help needed!

[Paradox]

Originally Posted by KD5NFW

Thanks big guy I appreciate your help today

No problem, dude. Feel free to PM if you have any questions.

[KD5NFW]

Hit a few sets of light squats tonight with what I would consider success! After deload deadlifts I did 135x8x3. I made quite a few adjustments to my setup and form:
1. took a little wider stance
2. took a wider grip
3. concentrated on sitting down instead of back
4. forced knees out all the way down into the hole and held them out as best I could

I typically cannot hit depth with this light of weight on the bar. I was consistently able to hit below parallel on every rep. And I felt like I was much more upright than normal! Friday is deload squat day so I will try to get some vids for critique

[jdmalm123]

Originally Posted by KD5NFW

Hit a few sets of light squats tonight with what I would consider success! After deload deadlifts I did 135x8x3. I made quite a few adjustments to my setup and form:
1. took a little wider stance
2. took a wider grip
3. concentrated on sitting down instead of back
4. forced knees out all the way down into the hole and held them out as best I could

I typically cannot hit depth with this light of weight on the bar. I was consistently able to hit below parallel on every rep. And I felt like I was much more upright than normal! Friday is deload squat day so I will try to get some vids for critique

Looks like you found the magic!

All those tips + OH squatting with a 10# bar did the same for me!

[KD5NFW]

Originally Posted by jdmalm123

Looks like you found the magic!

All those tips + OH squatting with a 10# bar did the same for me!

Thanks JD I've never been so happy about a set of 1pps squats in my life lol

[Paradox]

That's awesome news man! It's even easier to hit depth WITHOUT the wider stance, but if you can hit depth consistently wider, that's just fine.

I had that same problem, actually. I could never hit depth without a couple plates per side. Now it's not so bad. Good job.

[KD5NFW]

Originally Posted by Paradox

That's awesome news man! It's even easier to hit depth WITHOUT the wider stance, but if you can hit depth consistently wider, that's just fine.

I had that same problem, actually. I could never hit depth without a couple plates per side. Now it's not so bad. Good job.

Thanks! Yeah I made all those adjustments at one time, so I can still play around with stance width, grip width......

I had a relatively narrow stance anyway though I think. Widening it made it just a bit outside my shoulders, but will be experimenting to find optimum width.

[Paradox]

Oh jeez, that's quite alright. I'm about shoulder width, maybe a bit wider, as well.