#43 Postby asparagus » Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:18 pm
Vegan Aspirant - that's what I thought given your previous post about multiple reps. I should have asked directly - how many reps was it?
Jaakko - Don't try to look to your side into a mirror when doing squats. Your head position actually has a lot of bearing on your form, especially how you hold your back. A front mirror is OK, as long as you are not tilting your head down to look into it. Test your depth using only bodyweight and study the way it looks in a front mirror. Then when you squat in front of a mirror you can better judge your depth. This is how I measured my depth when I was doing parallel squats. You could also try a cushioned box squat. Find a rigid box, chair, bench - anything that's the right height so that your butt just barely touches it when you are a little lower than parallel (test it with bodyweight only) and then put a pillow on it. When you are squatting, as soon as you feel the pillow, you are at the bottom and should go up. This way you never feel support under your butt and won't release tension and risk injury. The final solution however, is to transition into doing full depth Olympic style squats, at which point you can't really go much lower!
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