Post by Greg Crook on Sept 20, 2006 11:31:19 GMT -5
While I encounter any technical problems in training whether its me or anyone in our group I'll write about them as some of you may be or have had the same problem or maybe it will help others avoid the problem all together.
I had a slight issue the other day with Sharon while she was squatting. She was squatting using multiple bands, although she was moving the weight fast and with no problem she just didn't look right.
This was very frustrating for me and her both trying to figure out what was going on, then we finally stumbled on to it. Her upper back was rounded over when she started descending down to the box and when she came back up it was forcing her to squat up and forward instead of straight up. What we found to be the problem her elbows were pointing back behind her instead of up under the bar. The problem that this creates is you can't get a good arch in your upper back. You can see what I mean by getting the bar on your back as if you were going to squat. Then take you elbows and point them back behind you. This leaves you with no option but to round your upper back over which is very bad. If your rounded from the start your going to have big problems coming out of the hole if you even can.
Now with the bar on your back try to pull your elbows up under the bar not literally but close as you can, this make you arch your upper back like your supposed to. A tight arch in your upper back will also help you to push back into your suit while going down to get all that carryover as well.
The gear that we wear now allows us to handle such heavy weight that when we make one wrong move most of the time its hard/impossible to recover and finish the lift. In training make sure that every set and every rep are perfect, it sucks missing a lift because of technique when you know that your strong enough to lift the weight to Begin with.
Once we fixed that she went on to have a great workout and set a PR in the rack pull after all the squatting. Hope this helps and please if your having any problems yourself I'd be glad to help if I can, just let me know.
I had a slight issue the other day with Sharon while she was squatting. She was squatting using multiple bands, although she was moving the weight fast and with no problem she just didn't look right.
This was very frustrating for me and her both trying to figure out what was going on, then we finally stumbled on to it. Her upper back was rounded over when she started descending down to the box and when she came back up it was forcing her to squat up and forward instead of straight up. What we found to be the problem her elbows were pointing back behind her instead of up under the bar. The problem that this creates is you can't get a good arch in your upper back. You can see what I mean by getting the bar on your back as if you were going to squat. Then take you elbows and point them back behind you. This leaves you with no option but to round your upper back over which is very bad. If your rounded from the start your going to have big problems coming out of the hole if you even can.
Now with the bar on your back try to pull your elbows up under the bar not literally but close as you can, this make you arch your upper back like your supposed to. A tight arch in your upper back will also help you to push back into your suit while going down to get all that carryover as well.
The gear that we wear now allows us to handle such heavy weight that when we make one wrong move most of the time its hard/impossible to recover and finish the lift. In training make sure that every set and every rep are perfect, it sucks missing a lift because of technique when you know that your strong enough to lift the weight to Begin with.
Once we fixed that she went on to have a great workout and set a PR in the rack pull after all the squatting. Hope this helps and please if your having any problems yourself I'd be glad to help if I can, just let me know.
