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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Squat and RDL form check
« on: June 06, 2010, 06:01:01 pm »Made a new vid, on TVS they asked to make one with heels elevated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26BhVPvLdk
The angle is very bad, but the batteries of my camera were low so I had to take the adapter and this was the only place I could put it... and I just squatted without bar so I don't know if you can compare it that well with yesterday's vid.. I'll make a better one tomorrow or so.
You can't see my feet but I mentioned it in the vid when my heels were elevated. I also tried to flex my ankles more (=> bringing knees more forward) and that alone was already an improvement, so it's not that I lack that much ankle mobility, it's just that I don't use it while squatting.. (Well I maybe need some more flexibility but it already got better when I just thought about flexing )
I also could tighten my glutes WAY better when flexing the ankles more. So maybe this was one of the bigger issues in my form.. I'll still keep on doing the hamstring stretching etc, I think that'd improve my form also.
instead of heel elevation i prefer oly weightlifting shoes, but the third set definitely looked nice as far as back rounding goes.. your form will get even better with some slight heel elevation, for sure.












