Over head squats
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yes mate im usiing them to help my squat tech. Its really hard to round your lower back at the bottom in the overhead position. It took me a week or two to learn to keep the bar over my heels as I went down. The bar was coming forward due to lack of shoulder flexabilty. Give a blast mate, you could also try an exercise called snatch balance which is quite similar.
I don't see the point of these for squat and deadlift as they are down alot to shoulder flexibility.
Front squats and Power cleans/snatchs would be better
Front squats and Power cleans/snatchs would be better
moz said:yes mate im usiing them to help my squat tech. Its really hard to round your lower back at the bottom in the overhead position. It took me a week or two to learn to keep the bar over my heels as I went down. The bar was coming forward due to lack of shoulder flexabilty. Give a blast mate, you could also try an exercise called snatch balance which is quite similar.
bloody good idea that i shall try them as a warm up on monday ,tried them before and found them unbeleivably difficult even with just the bar!
cheers Moz, i will add them in tomorrow at the next session
Griff i was thinking that is i can get the over head squats to force me to get the rounding of the lower back stopped that it will help my tech on the deads and back squats
Griff i was thinking that is i can get the over head squats to force me to get the rounding of the lower back stopped that it will help my tech on the deads and back squats
MattGriff said:I don't see the point of these for squat and deadlift as they are down alot to shoulder flexibility.
Front squats and Power cleans/snatchs would be better
Front squats and Power cleans/snatchs would be better
I agree with Matt mate. Definetly restricted to shoulder flexability and I also think that when you go to normal squat and deads the tech will be thrown off and not perfect like you're hoping it will be.
trust me when it came to shoulder flexability i was the worlds worse. Years of benching and no shoulder work. If your struggling use a broom handle instead of an oly bar. As you squat down push your hands back and try pulling the bar apart without actually moving your hands. It'll take a week or for flexability to come 
Steve09/01/10 @ 20:57
Does the fact that top weightlifters don't, at least in my experience, usually do overhead squats says something about their value?
Certainly all the weightlifters I know see them as a stepping stone to snatch balances, nothing more.
That said, for the remedial back-position-correcting purposes Thing and Moz posted about it does seem to make sense...
That said, for the remedial back-position-correcting purposes Thing and Moz posted about it does seem to make sense...
Steve09/01/10 @ 21:20
Rick said:Certainly all the weightlifters I know see them as a stepping stone to snatch balances, nothing more.
That said, for the remedial back-position-correcting purposes Thing and Moz posted about it does seem to make sense...
That said, for the remedial back-position-correcting purposes Thing and Moz posted about it does seem to make sense...
And all the weightlifters I've know have also dropped snatch balances once they got to a more advanced level.
As a general conditioning exercise overhead squats are a great exercise but there are better exercises for improving squat and deadlift technique.
Steve said:
And all the weightlifters I've know have also dropped snatch balances once they got to a more advanced level.
As a general conditioning exercise overhead squats are a great exercise but there are better exercises for improving squat and deadlift technique.
And all the weightlifters I've know have also dropped snatch balances once they got to a more advanced level.
As a general conditioning exercise overhead squats are a great exercise but there are better exercises for improving squat and deadlift technique.
please elaborate steve