Front squat technique help please. Hard as fook!
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Martin_Jones said:Not sure about the shruging bit though...
Really? Your shoulders will be slightly shrugged in the first place as a result of keeping your elbows up and to create a good shelf for the bar to rest on.
The bar shouldn't be up against your windpipe, unless you particularly want to black out.
Gubernatrix said:
Really? Your shoulders will be slightly shrugged in the first place as a result of keeping your elbows up and to create a good shelf for the bar to rest on.
The bar shouldn't be up against your windpipe, unless you particularly want to black out.
Really? Your shoulders will be slightly shrugged in the first place as a result of keeping your elbows up and to create a good shelf for the bar to rest on.
The bar shouldn't be up against your windpipe, unless you particularly want to black out.
I love Sugden. Ha ha ha.
Gubernatrix said:
Really? Your shoulders will be slightly shrugged in the first place as a result of keeping your elbows up and to create a good shelf for the bar to rest on.
The bar shouldn't be up against your windpipe, unless you particularly want to black out.
Really? Your shoulders will be slightly shrugged in the first place as a result of keeping your elbows up and to create a good shelf for the bar to rest on.
The bar shouldn't be up against your windpipe, unless you particularly want to black out.
There's a difference between up against your windpipe and restricting your airways, would you not agree?
I force the bar into my throat and have never once blacked out....or come remotely close too
JC said:
There's a difference between up against your windpipe and restricting your airways, would you not agree?
There's a difference between up against your windpipe and restricting your airways, would you not agree?
Yep!
Martin_Jones16/08/10 @ 13:49
You are all pussies, blacking out is the way forward.
To be honest I have very big front delts and this causes the bar to become very close and high to my wind pipe, I have to make a big effort to look up and move the wind pipe out of the way.
To be honest I have very big front delts and this causes the bar to become very close and high to my wind pipe, I have to make a big effort to look up and move the wind pipe out of the way.
Martin_Jones16/08/10 @ 13:53
Gubernatrix said:
Really? Your shoulders will be slightly shrugged in the first place as a result of keeping your elbows up and to create a good shelf for the bar to rest on.
The bar shouldn't be up against your windpipe, unless you particularly want to black out.
Really? Your shoulders will be slightly shrugged in the first place as a result of keeping your elbows up and to create a good shelf for the bar to rest on.
The bar shouldn't be up against your windpipe, unless you particularly want to black out.
Nope still don't get you mate. If I put weight on my delts they don't shrug up, they go down!! But saying that perhaps it's different for oly style. I don't have the flexibility.
use the clean grip.
90+% of the guys who say "i could never do it" actually can if they just want to work towards it step by step. Rest could too but it would take a bit longer.
90+% of the guys who say "i could never do it" actually can if they just want to work towards it step by step. Rest could too but it would take a bit longer.
Im trying to learn the clean grip. Its a nightmare to learn when you are so unflexible but its coming along. Had to endure a lot of pain just to do a 60kg frontie!
Martin_Jones said:
If I put weight on my delts they don't shrug up, they go down!! But saying that perhaps it's different for oly style.
If I put weight on my delts they don't shrug up, they go down!! But saying that perhaps it's different for oly style.
Not as far as I've ever seen
Martin_Jones16/08/10 @ 15:58
Oh well, there's a lack of support for the shrugging option. To the original person who had the issue (nick), basically when I first learned front squats a few years ago I had the same problem as you. Someone suggested this and I found it really helpful at the time. So I offer it to you as a suggestion - obviously you'll take it or leave it as you see fit. I don't really mind since it worked for me.
Ha! Went very dizzy the other day doing front squats....now I get it!
Still wouldn't recommend having the bar right up against the windpipe for someone just learning the movement though.
Also not convinced that falling over backwards with a heavy bar at my neck is the right move for me at this stage either.
Still wouldn't recommend having the bar right up against the windpipe for someone just learning the movement though.
Also not convinced that falling over backwards with a heavy bar at my neck is the right move for me at this stage either.