Great job on the video coach! I really like your videos… I like all starting strength coach videos. You can definitely tell that SS coaches know there stuff
The top of the ss squat is not normal anatomical position. You HAVE to lean over a bit at the top in a low bar back squat. You can’t stand up perfectly straight or the weight will be behind your center of gravity and pull you backwards.
he specifically says “it looks like it would normally (stand all the way up) if she’s just standing there normally” No. No it does not. Standing up perfectly straight is NOT what the top of a low bar back squat should or even CAN look like. You have to bend over slightly to keep the weight over your center of gravity to compensate for the lower bar position. So telling people they should look like they were standing normally at the top could cause people to unnecessarily shift their hips forward, losing balance, and injuring themselves.
@@jamesembrey3100 The spinal position (Flexed/extended thoracic and lumbar) is what he means. Normal spinal position. You will be bent forward at the hips, but the spine itself doesn't bend.
@@jabberwock14 I understand what he’s getting at, but he SAYS the words “like you would stand normally” which is just incorrect. You don’t stand normally with your hips unlocked and a slight forward lean. Unless you’re trump.
Absolute terrible squat form you people teach. Look at that arched back, butt wink, upper body moving all over the place. Lmao - your setting these people up to never be able lift heavy or to get so ingrained in doing it wrong that that hurt themselves over and over trying. Do you guys even lift?
It's not terrible squat form at all. It's very efficient and posterior chain dominant. But it is very technique heavy and very demanding on flexibility, especially for novices, and most especially for older novices who have been sedentary for an extended period. In the years I've loosely followed Starting Strength and researched this form of squatting, it's staggering the number of people online whose bodies get absolutely wrecked from trying to force their bodies to squat like this. Shoulder issues, elbow issues, hip issues (and then stubbornly adding 5 lbs. per workout only exacerbates these issues). Most of these people would be much better served by just doing high bar, which immediately fixes the shoulder and elbow issues, and which is the most "natural," instinctual way to squat; i.e. it most closely mirrors how people do an unweighted squat. This rigid adherence to this form of squatting is baffling to me if it's targeted at the general populace. Same goes for power cleans (even more so, in fact), which I won't get into here. As a program, SS seems like it should only be targeted at young athletes.
