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You bet I'm doing the same thing. I feel like I'm not using my leg strength/power at all in my jumps. I just raise the chest and "jump" which is as retarded as it gets. I know it doesn't look like that in my videos but living in my own body (weirdly enough) I can tell you that's true.

The thing is - how do you correct it? That's why I liked a lot what Rippetoe said about the low bar hip-driven squat. When I heard him say "don't drive the chest up, use your hips" for the first time, I was like "bingo, that's what I have been doing all along".

Now don't live under the impression that I was "manipulated" into thinking that - I know I have always "raised my chest" but it never occured to me how to put it into words.

The problem is - I have no idea how to cure it.

When I deadlift I raise the chest.
When I clean I raise the chest.
When I squat I don't though, weirdly enough. I put a lot of quad load instead (I don't really push my hips back because I'd just fall backwards)
When I KB swing I can use my hips pretty well.
When I RDL I raise the chest. I feel the same tendency to fall on the back when I RDL as in the squat (or even more really) - it's really, REALLY annoying.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Box squatting could be an answer but I don't have any boxes in the gym and using a bench that's very narrow I could easily miss it and just have a big accident happen. In fact, because of my fear of missing the bench, when I was doing "bench squats" I was even more quad dominant than in a free squat.

So as you can see, I'm a really weird kind of guy. But hey, you already knew that didn't you?

I'd do them but I have this terrible tendency of using the lowerback when doing cleans. I actually "raise the chest" when I pull in the clean instead of using the hips... I'm terribly flawed movement wise. At least this is what I feel. I do the same thing with deadlifts - raise the hips, bend the back, raise the chest up.

The only movement where I'm using my hips somewhat well is a one-leg jump.

I also wonder what would happen with a similar thread on Rippetoe's forum.

Yeah well I know about the low TUT for the hip thrusts, that's why I will do them with a 3-5 second hold at the top (at the glute bridge so to speak). Then I can pretty much say a 3x8 should be good.

In the rest days I plan to work with chinups/pullups (3x5 with weight if needed, and it will be), core (planks and some ab wheel/machine crunches + hip flexor stuff) and calves. Shouldn't take too much out of me, right?

By the way - I did 85x5x3 today in the squat and it was pretty difficult. Did the first two sets with 2.5kg plates under the heels and the last set without them... I don't know what to say...

I mean, I could stay more erect with my torso with the plates under the heels and could use a narrower stance, but...

As for the cleans, would you go with KB swings instead if I can't catch in the powerclean properly (I catch with the elbows down, on the chest/holding the bar with the hands, definitely not on the shoulders (I'm so far away from doing that))?

As you can see, USSR Dr. Emil has a few issues going... this USA Rippetoe style of training is pretty weird.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhY-21wjFg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhY-21wjFg</a>

Hey good job man. I went to play ball on a random court a few days ago and there were people asking me "hey, how is adarqui doing". I was like "where the heck do these people know about adarqui?" haha

I was wondering if I should replace the deadlifts with hip thrusts as I'm doing "Starting Strength". They should serve better for my purposes especially as my deadlift form isn't good in the first place and since I'm trying to focus more on my glutes.

The question remains - if I do hip thrusts instead of deadlifts - what volume? For the deadlifts I had 1x5, for the hip thrusts... 3x5? 3x8?