🔥 How to Take Your Squat From Average to Great!

3 Technique Keys in the Squat:

1) If you’re not hitting depth: the weight is too heavy; or your hips are too weak; or you’re not spreading the floor enough on the way down-or a combination thereof

2) Over-speed eccentrics is only effective in practice to a point. If you descend too fast, it takes immense force to be able to stop the bar and then reverse it, so much in fact you’ll be weaker out of the hole. Therefore, a not too fast, but not slow descent is optimal. Find the happy medium: the best description of the correct speed on the descent is “controlled”

3) Much of your squat success happens prior to the actual lift. A proper setup, aligned correctly, tight, upper back locked in, quiet walk, correct brace, will keep you in the right position in the descent and lead to a powerful, strong squat

-Fenske