Funny you mention that. I get crippling lower back soreness straight after my set. But after i go and do a couple of other exercises its gone away.
I'm smart, aren't I.
Those erectors, climb up the spine like power lines on a pole.
They work at trying to maintain the curve in the spine, movements like side bends are very good, the trick is using a very heavy weight spending about 120 seconds under tension, which is around ten rep's.
If you have severe buttwink you need to look to your hamstrings, hips and/or glutes and releasing tightness and increasing your mobility.Awesome thread! I just joined today and have already got heaps of useful info! Thanks
I have a question: I have trained for a little while and done quite a bit of squatting over the last couple of years. I've had a few injuries and essentially have chronic lower back pain. I have seen various people for this who all said similar things about flexibility etc. so I've obviously worked on my flexibility with no resultant improvement in my pain. I recently saw a new physio who was completely different and pointed to restricted range in my shoulders (!) and pointed out how my spine bends as it shouldn't. To eventually get to the point; he told me to only squat as low as I can without my spine rounding at the bottom - I have severe "butt-wink" I think it's called.
Now I've always squatted to below parallel so my question is whether there is any point in doing squats to quite noticeably above parallel. Now that the physio has pointed out the flawed movement it's pretty obvious to me so I won't be squatting to depth until I stop doing the butt-wink - if I can ever get rid of it. So should I squat to the depth I can, which is really nowhere near parallel, or not do squats at all?
Sorry for the lengthy question and thanks for any thoughts!
That bit is the problem. Depth is fine. Depth without pain is where things start to go wrong.without pain
The "hip tuck" is due to the structure of the hip, and not necessarily flexibility issues.
my thoughts are, if you are unable to squat arse to grass, then you need to supplement with other exercises that work those structures, half squatting (just below the hip line) is not an efficient exercise for the hip, and in time for most will cause problems.
No way those kunce broke parallel....with their monolift et al. ?
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