Injury robbed my of Squat depth
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:16 am
About a month ago I hurt my low back and progress for squats and deadlift have stopped. Training for them has been mostly whatever I can do. For squats this was the second time I've done any sort of freeweight squat in the past 3 weeks. Before this I did 100kg x 10 which was even higher than this (110kg x 5). I don't feel like my much has changed from before, I just can't get as deep.
This is me working with 40kg trying stances. The first is normal, but I really tried pushing my knees out as much as possible. Second was a very wide stance and third was very narrow.
And this was a 130kg x 1 I hit nearly a week ago
The only major difference, aside from not squatting and getting hurt, is my belt. Before I was using a thin leather bodybuilding style belt. Now I'm using a proper 10mm belt and while I like it for bench, squatting and deadlifting positioning with it is still something I'm getting used to
This is me working with 40kg trying stances. The first is normal, but I really tried pushing my knees out as much as possible. Second was a very wide stance and third was very narrow.
And this was a 130kg x 1 I hit nearly a week ago
The only major difference, aside from not squatting and getting hurt, is my belt. Before I was using a thin leather bodybuilding style belt. Now I'm using a proper 10mm belt and while I like it for bench, squatting and deadlifting positioning with it is still something I'm getting used to