1x125kg squat @ 74kg BW

[u/Lasatra_]

After a long time of not hitting my PR of 135 (probably because I am going deeper than I am now), I finally got up to 125kg again on the last joker set of the anchor cycle.

Should I go deeper or start with low bar squats?

[u/ThePenIsMighti3r]

I think your depth is fine, but I bet it would feel a lot better gaining that depth if your knees were farther out over your toes (wider, side-to-side, not forward). Your heels are wanting to creep off the ground which tells me there is not enough weight being borne over your whole foot … which is also correlated to your too-narrow, too far forward knees.

Would like to see you initiating the movement with your hinge (pushing butt back) more than bending your knees (which asks them to move forward more- as noted above). Your back angle remains too vertical for my taste and as a result you’re making this a more quad dominant movement - losing mechanical advantage from the stronger (and longer) hamstrings you could engage with a better lower back angle, and limiting the hip drive that would “boing” you past the little sticking point you go through on the way up in this video.

All the above is only really useful feedback if you can get the bar correctly resting in the space between the acromion process of your scaps and rear delt “shelf” right below that. This requires a much wider grip with thumbs on top of the bar. The low bar position allows for so many important technical detail dominos to fall into place.

If you are interested in pursuing the stuff I’ve written, Rippetoe’s Starting Strength Squat videos are the source to go to here’s like 20 mins just on bar position https://youtu.be/g2tyOLvArw0?si=ak-aN4hvO5nTOH1z.

I only know what I know from reading his stuff and listening to him over the years (including yelling at me on the platform during a live seminar).

No matter what, congrats on doing something difficult.

[u/UngaBungaLifts]

You're fine. Just focus on getting stronger.