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Hamstrings – the most over-rated muscle group for squats

Oni, I reckon you can afford to adopt a more knees forward position with your squats, which will result in a more upright position. It will allow you to utilised quad drive more. I am long femured person as well. Sitting back just didn't work for me.
 
strong enough? said:
Oni, I reckon you can afford to adopt a more knees forward position with your squats, which will result in a more upright position. It will allow you to utilised quad drive more. I am long femured person as well. Sitting back just didn't work for me.
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Got any videos of you squatting?
I've looked at all the dudes with similar proportions to me and they all squat in a similar fashion. I'd like to be able to abduct my knees more, I think this would help- but it feels like my hips won't allow it as I can't really stretch into this position. I don't really feel like my hamstrings are loaded either

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Maybe my stance needs to be wider. I don't sit back btw, I break at hips and aim to drop straight down
 
Darkoz said:
Ditching low bar squats would be a good start
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My high bar squatting is even worse
Plus I need to lift the most weight possible, lengthening my levers won't help things. Sure I'll be more upright but it would take a good 40kg off my squat
 
0ni said:
My high bar squatting is even worse

Plus I need to lift the most weight possible, lengthening my levers won't help things. Sure I'll be more upright but it would take a good 40kg off my squat
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Probably a good reason to do more of them.
 
0ni said:
I do plenty of high bar and front squatting
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Do more then.

When I could squat my favorite was no handed SSB squats. If you lean forwards at all the bar dumps you. That sort of squatting got me stronger than any low bar squats ever did.

Do you really believe you are the only one ever with long arms and long legs to squat or bench.
 
Well I am going to ignore the people here that don't compete in powerlifting and can't squat due to medical reasons and sought after the advice of people that actually put up decent numbers like Scott, Dan America, Pritchard and Jamie Lewis

My squats are fine but I could do with slowly widening my stance over time
 
"i actually dont think your squat looks too bad. if i was coaching you in person there are a couple of little adjustments that i'd make but nothing essentially wrong with it. a little lean forward isn't that bad for raw squatting provided you dont lose your lower back posture" - Daniel America

"From the front, it doesn't look to bad, from the side would give a better idea." - Scott Wasson

"It's fine, stop worrying about stupid shit" - Jamie Lewis

"The squats look alright and the stance and movement good. Work on holding the knee drive out throughout." - Pritchard

Yeah I'm probably going to ignore the people that say I am not upright
 
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you're folded up like a deckchair... :D

oh.. what was the point of thread again?
 
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0ni said:
Yeah I just need to find a way to magically shorten my femurs :rolleyes:
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Yeah that sucks. My femur to tibia is 1:1. Long arms make deadlifting a breeze but sitting back shoots my hips too far back and torso way foward.

Still finding that sweet zone due to a fucked hip, but higher bar placement stops me folding over.
 
A good peice of advice i got was to try and sit down directly between your knees, this will push your knees out and help keep you upright, rather then pushing back or dropping forward.
 
Bazza20 said:
What you really think if you followed these top lifters advise you would have seriously maxed out at a natural 80kg bench. Lol. Don't give me the levers shit.
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Maxed out at 80kg on bench press as a natural? So he jumped on AAS to break through this "plateau"? My recovery ability is crap due to a nervous system disorder, and I still hit 80kg on bench after a couple of months, training by myself as well.

Should I jump on the gear to get passed 100kg? It's starting to feel really heavy.
 
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