Box Squats Video - I'm I doing them right?

[IronLion]

First, when lowering yourself with your hams, you add a stability and potential for reversal strength to the lift

Mike this is the key to a bigger better squat. This is how I learned to do it: I make a focused effort to flex (arch) my lower back hard. Once this is done you simply have to push your ass back, not down, and let biomechanics take over. The tension in your hamstrings is what allows you to balance on the way down and stabilize.

My advice is to work with that pipe at the just below parallel box. You should try to flex your back and hams like I talked about and then make an effort to SLOWLY decend until you barely touch the box.

1 more thing the problem most have when they first start squatting like this is that when they start to get deeper they do not lean forward enough (with low back still arched hard) to keep from falling backward...think about it

 

[spatts]

Not to mention that the more you recruit your hamstrings, the better protected your knee is as it passes through the planes of depth. In fact, the lower you go, the more hamstring muscle is recruited, and the safer your knee is. It's right there at parallel that it's important to know you're making use of those hamstrings.

 

[the People's Champ]

I think a really simple thing that will help you indefinitely is to keep your head up. look up at a 45 deg. angle. that will keep your back in its natural curvature, and prevent from rounding your lower back.

 

[Mike_Rojas]

I think a really simple thing that will help you indefinitely is to keep your head up. look up at a 45 deg. angle. that will keep your back in its natural curvature, and prevent from rounding your lower back.

thanks. Sometimes the simplest things will make things "click". Just gotta remember head up, ass back, keep back tight, push feet out, control the weight.