An image by Tommy Kono, showing the core of power.
A common mantra when it comes to exercises such as the snatch, clean (and respective pulls & shrugs) as well as deadlifting (in my gym and hopefully yours too) is to drive with the hips. The idea is to drive the hips through the bar when lifting said weight.
At my gym I sometimes hear people encouraging lifters who are squatting with the same chant 'drive with hips'.
I'm perhaps not communicating what I want to say very well as per normal. What I want to know is when squatting, do you still drive the weight up with your hips in the same fashion as when doing a clean (for example).
Personally, I don't think you can get much drive with the hips when squatting with your feet close together like me. It's then mostly quad.
However, this is something I have been playing with of late.
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Your words hurt my eyes.
When I stand with my feet at shoulder width, I get no, or very little hip drive.
As soon as my feet go out further than shoulder width, I am able to thrust my hip forward to make me stand.
There is always hip drive, irrespective of foot placement; and the magnitude of hip drive would only slightly differ based on joint angles.
What are you basing this on?
Quantified levels of muscle activation responsible for hip extension during the squat, at different joint angles, using the most sophisticated assessment tools available at this current stage?
You only need to read several biomechanical studies of the back squat / front squat to notice this - not to mentioned I performed my own research into the squat at different hip and knee joint angles.
Even intuitively, you should be-able to recongise the differences of hip drive itself would be only slight. After all, the primary difference between squatting with a wide stance over close stance is your base of support / stability; so ofcourse it may feel different ... it has no bearing on the amount of hip extension; and hip drive...... Every single person has to extend at the hips to finalise their squat.
I noticed a MASSIVE difference in how I was able to use my hips to get the weight up when sitting back.
Squat AnalysisGenerally speaking, during a powerlift type squat (bar lower behind the shoulders and a wider stance) the knee does not travel forward as far as a bodybuilding type squat. The hips typically travel back further with the torso bent forward on a powerlift type squat. This emphasizes the stronger hip extensors and consequently reduces knee extensor involvement. Knee torque is further reduced by a wide stance.
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