Full Squat Vs Parallel Squat

[hrdgain81]

however, do NOT force it. If your lower back rounds as you go down, then you probably have a weak posterior chain and abs, as well as tight hammies

do NOT hit A2G until you can do it WITHOUT rounding the back. Just keep going down as low as you can "comfortably" (hahhaa,...comfortable squats) go, and NO rounding of the back.

This is how i f'd up my back the other day. I have a problem with my hips (they wanted to break them and reset them at one point) so i cant get down that low without my back rounding out. So you will see me on the smith machine doing them the girlie way from now on.

[EricT]

Originally Posted by Hardgain

So you will see me on the smith machine doing them the girlie way from now on.

How is that going to help? You're forcing your body into an unnatural fixed plane of motion.

squatting in a Smith machine which does not allow proper shifts in weight through the movement, and results in shear on knee and spine

[hrdgain81]

I guess i should have specified, I'm not doing regular smith squats. I do smith squats with both feet out in front, dropping down into a deep sitting position, then back up.

Its almost like a hack, but i feel like it hits the quads harder.