Unlike the hulk I don't like mirrors. When it comes to form they give visual feedback that is incorrect because they only show one plane of a movement.
Mark Rippetoe said:Squatting in front of a mirror is a really bad idea. Many weight rooms have mirrors on all the walls, making it impossible to squat without a mirror there, within eyesight, giving you its bad feedback. A mirror is a bad tool because it provides information about only one plane, the frontal, and depth cannot be judged by looking in the mirror from the front. Some obliqueness of angle is required to see the relationship between patella and hip crease, but a mirror set at an oblique angle would produce a twisting of the neck. Cervical rotation under a heavy bar is just as bad an idea as cervical hyperextension under a heavy bar. But the best reason not to use a mirror in front of any multijoint exercise is that you should be developing kinesthetic sense of movement by paying attention to all the sensory input provided by proprioception, rather than focusing merely on visual input from a mirror. "Learn to feel it, not just see it," is excellent advice.
Does anyone have any studies showing whether mirrors are good or bad for you?
Just sayn
There.
There have been a few studies done on training with & without the use of a mirror.
From memory, I think they found that the feedback from the mirror was distorted, similar to when people train wearing glasses. The focal point is lost. I'll try to find the podcast I heard about it and get some some decent data..
I don't have a prOblem with antidotal evidence
does that mean i should stop squatting in my white kanye west glasses?
Mirror fucks up your form.
My forms in squat, deadlift and clean improved heaps when I started training at a place with no mirror.
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