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I don't get how other ppl can work their way easily to squatting 3 plates and some while i'm struggling around 2. I feel as though I should at least work up to 2x6x115 but how??
eat strong. squat strong.
your diet sucks. your back squat form is pretty good. i've seen 6'2 / 220lb gym rats who can barely quarter squat 225lb. your poundage is not so bad for a twig. lol
if you are not inflexible, maybe you just need to focus on keeping your whole torso / spine as one solid unit while breaking the knees/hips. point top of the head straight up and let everything else follow it through the range of motion.
Do you think I need more muscle mass to squat say 5x115kg? I can front squat over 120kg, I should be able to backsquat more than that even at my twig-weight .. right? That's what's bothering me because fine I don't have the muscle mass to squat 400, but i have enough muscle to front squat >120kg, shouldn't I be able to backsquat say ~135kg/300lb (to take 90% of backsquat). But if I was a 135kg backsquatter I wouldn't be struggling with backsquatting low 100kgs..?
I might have a flexibility issue. But i can post a video of me front squatting ATG with decent form. So you'd think I have the flexibility for backsquat, esp since the depth is higher on the backsquat.
Post a video back squat video from the side. I imagine you lack a bit of ankle flexibility (or don't own good oly shoes) but are religious about hitting good depth which causes you to round your low back hard to keep from falling backwards on your backsquat. WIth the bar in front you can hit that really deep without rounding your back.
Added the video back to my earlier post, please have a look. I don't ATG on backsquat, not militant about depth on backsquat as long as it's below parallel i'm happy. I save my deep squatting for the front squat which comes naturally to me. I do use oly shoes, and I think i have the ankle mobility because I can front squat deep fine.
But having said that I might still have a problem with mobility all the same because my backsquat looks very assymetric, i favour my strong left side a lot. I just don't know what, or how to fix it.
I think your form is fine it's just that you're really skinny. At 6'3 165 you're not going to be putting up good numbers. I'm actually surprised that you can front squat as much as you can- good neural efficiency. Even if you were heavy though most tall people aren't made to squat in the first place. Of course there are some massive squatters that are tall but pretty much all of them are 265+lbs or have a squat build (short limbs, long torso), or usually both. So really it's just a mixture of all those reasons. If you put on 60lbs you'd probs be squatting 350-400lbs but like you said there would be no point in that because it'd be detrimental for your athleticism.
At the end of the day I wouldn't even worry about it too much. Like you said you're increasing your athleticism without the back squat. The back squat is just a tool it's not the be all end all. Everybody would like a high squat to brag about but if you can get the results without it than fuk it.
I accept that I wont be squatting shitloads at my bodyweight. No argument there. My problem is with my BS/FS ratio. It should be >1 and i must be the only person where it's less. I find it perplexing that my backsquat is lighter than my front squat. That's unheard of, because universally backsquat should be a lot stronger. Add to the fact that I go deeper on front squats than I do on backsquat and it becomes even harder to understand.
