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Old 09-12-2008, 10:20 AM
Darkhorse Darkhorse is offline
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Absolutely.. There's one I think a page back, but you're right. It bothers me to see that and my stellar 90 lb hammer curls on there LOL!

I was going to vid my buffalo squats. But I wanted to only record my top set, and thought I had much more left. The 405 went up at the speed of light, so I was like, "cool", I'll throw on 445 for a single, then probably record a new PR after that for everyone.

Fortunately for me, the guys at OCSC showed me what I was doing wrong and totally fixed a lot of my mistakes. Due to me rocking back sitting on the box, it severly tips me forward when I start coming up.. That's what happened with the 445. So I got some great GM work done yesterday LOL.

So after that set, instead of doing another, I decided to drop down to 70% and do some rep work (aka practice) with the critique they gave. As far as setup, chest out, back arched, spreading the floor they said I'm a champ. But I'm NOT staying tight on the box, and combined with rocking back, I'm doing more work than I need to. That's also why I don't bother wearing knee wraps. It'll just make it worse IMHO.

So I've come to the point box squatting where I need to think to myself, "Ass down, ass up." That means sit back and down on the box, stay tight, then try and flex my pelvis forward (this part's hard to describe lol).

To get what I'm saying for everyone reading: Sit down while pushing your knees out. From there, as you're standing up, I want you to pretend there's a hot chick trying to tie her shoes in front of you. Go for it! Sounds stupid, but I couldn't believe just how much it reduced my ROM and kept my back erect (no pun intended).

So I'm looking forward to dropping my bands for the next speed squat microcycle and working on this bigtime for 12 sets. I've got around 3 or so weeks before another squat variation comes around again (SSB off a high box).
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