Setting the Knees Early During the Squat with Steve Ross
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Starting Strength Coach Steve Ross helps you with fixing your knee position during the squat.
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Excellent demo. Definite communication skills from Steve. I can see him becoming a larger face of SS
He seems cool.
Rip will make him gain more weight first
Of all the SS videos on the squat this might be one of the very best at explaining an issue several people including myself deal with.
I sent Steve an e-mail asking about Europe and the possibility of work there as a SSC, and he was kind enough to reply and make himself available when he didn't (and still doesn't) know me personally. Great impression. Nice to see him here.
Thank you! All the other videos on this didn’t explain it as clearly!
Very helpful! I have been doing it wrong all along. This is a game changer. Thank you!!!
From personal experience, a third thing the knees moving forward at the bottom does is cause patellar tendonitis. Great video with good explanations!
This is by far the best instructional vid on setting the knees and what it should look like.
The verbiage and the optics could not have been any clearer....Bravo!
We need more Steve videos.
Good demo of a problem I struggled with. Appreciate the animations. Quality work.
Slowing down my range of motion on the squat helped me with setting my knees at the right time
The one video that really helped my squat. Thank you.
Thank you for the demonstration! I've been struggling with knee slide terribly and couldn't figure out how to set them. They're popping all the time, and I knew knee slide was the reason. This helps!
Quality video. Appreciate the animation that goes along with the explanation
Awesome video. Thanks a lot for generating and sharing this content. It's amazing how important it is to get form right instead of falling for the temptation of increasing weight without nailing down the right form first.
Very clear and helpful demonstration! Thank you
This is so great man. Love these videos. Squats are actually my favourite exercise now!😁💪
Awesome video. Thanks
Excellent video, well done!
Thank you, sir!
Haha, I was just watching myself squating on video and was doing this exact thing - to a lesser degree - and wondering why my knees hurt and I was losing rebound in the hole. Nicely done Steve Ross from Brussells Barbell!
Very helpful in keeping the hamstrings engaged. Good use of video as a coaching aid. Well done.
Rip's version:
"Push your ass back! Like you're about to sit!! Now knees out! Look at my hands, knees out! Good, good.
Now... I want you to drahhve this up, hhhhWhile keeping your knees out. We want to avoid the so called valgus collapse."
*slaps your lower back*
Steve's version:
"Hey there buddy :) Here's what you can do."
Texan vs Canadian
thanks for this great video demonstration.
excellent technique video and explanation of the cues.
this is excellent, excellent advice
Nice and clear explanation
Excellent!
Impeccable.. Thanks 🙂
Thank you!
Is focusing on "knees out" generally enough to get them set early?
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Hello! I got a question. At 2:30, Im currently worried about the low back at this point as Im used to not go below this - I probably stop at 2:28 as I previously had a low back injury. I'm no expert at this so how do you guys manage to be able to lift heavier and safer at that point?
Don't let your lower spine round over at the bottom. This might involve widening your stance or *gasp* making your back angle slightly more vertical. The coach in the video made a mistake at 2:20 and again at 2:30.
@@jamesschaffer5504 Normally I would have stopped at 2:18 and at 2:28. Not really comfortable at butt winks but I see a lot of people keep doing it yet squatting heavy weights with no downsides.
@@vorsillionx if you squat heavy with back rounding, you will eventually get hurt. Too much load on the spine. Even rippletits says this.
@@johnmadison4040 Thank you for the response and the sound advice. I try to avoid butt winks and squat very close to parallel as I used to.
Personally I would still do it even with a prior injury (assuming you didn’t hurt yourself, like, last week), because as long as you progress slowly and with good form you’ll strengthen the muscles that keep your lower back healthy and actually reduce your risk of injury. Another option you might consider is front squatting - it involves the hamstrings less so you’ll be slightly weaker, but it shifts stress from your lower back to your upper back
So if I do it right, I should feel it in my hamstrings? Like a stretch?
Hamstring length remains constant throughout the movement precisely because of the knee and hips simultaneous flexion.
My suggestion is stop thinking about what muscle groups you "feel", but focus on the movement pattern
How tall are you sir?
Is still also applicable to Front Squat?
Power clean please!
When I squat incorrectly, my knees hurt, that's because all the weight is on my knees and not on my hips, anyway good tip!
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One of the issues with squat technique is it is highly variable. Some talk about weight back, others over mid foot. Personally I find the horizontal position too much for how I teach a squat. If you want a straight bar path, the knees must travel forward a little bit and engage the quads. While the squat does impact a lot of posterior chain, it also should rely heavily on the quads. Also will depend on low bar, high bar, suited or not. As the weight increases the lack of a really strong chain can lead to a good morning type squat. But again, lots of variables in how a squat can or should be done.
This is a Starting Strength video, therefore if it is a low bar squat. Nobody here gives a shit how you teach the squat.
That makes it way easier to do your job, doesn't it?
I did squats as shown in this video and now i'm in a wheelchair. my wife left me and my children no longer respect me. every moment of my life is misery steve, MISERY
Turn up the music even louder because I can still almost hear the guy making unintelligible sounds
What does this mean?
The trainer has very tight ankles, which is preventing him from hitting depth without the bank rounding. You can also see the toes come off the platform. I cannot tell from the video, but having some good weightlifting shoes will help with that alongside some ankle work. Good luck!
The trainer does not have tight ankles. He is exaggerating depth for demonstration purposes.
@@brusselsbarbell924 Stop spreading lies. You have a shit ton of butt wink that one day will lead to injury. Your form is TRASH
Massive butt wink from 2:20 to 2:30
Not a big deal. They’ve talked about it
@@maxwilson3530 Novices are looking for paradigms. I'd be embarrassed to show them this.
@@jamesschaffer5504 Become an SSC. Be the change you wish to see.
@@WilsonPowerlifting Absurd. So you're agreeing the form in the video is bad and your organization needs reform. Then, why would I want to be an SSC?
@@jamesschaffer5504 One day, you’ll be a good enough coach to become an SSC. I believe in you!
awful video that poorly explains a niche aspect of the SS squat. sure you used your hamstrings but you were completely off balance. watch as he performs it "correctly" and you can see his toes coming off the platform meaning the weight was not centered over mid foot. balance and bar placement are much more important to a beginner than learning how "bounce" out of a squat. this guy has not watched all the SS videos like i have. lord rippletits would be ashamed.
Balance changes when the weight on the bar increases. Dude was using light weight and trying to go slow to illustrate when and where the knees move. Expecting a light lowbar squat to look good in slow motion is unrealistic and unnecessary for this particular video.
Here we go, the experts are in the house!
Ol rippletits
I’m not teaching bar placement in this video. I’m addressing a common problem that a lot of lifters have, which is not setting the knees early and with intention, that ends up causing knee slide.
I’m exaggerating the descent and depth for demonstration purposes and had just trained 30mins before, which may have had something to do with some residual fatigue popping up here.
@@brusselsbarbell924 excuses for your TRASH FORM
2:30 dude come on that’s a shit ton of butt wink. You’ll get people injured with that technique
Don't spread myths.
Dude, it’s a demonstration at a greatly reduced speed with an intentional exaggerated depth. I’m trying to show the knees holding their position, so I took this down lower than correct depth. That is the butt wink you’re referring to.
@@brusselsbarbell924 What does that have to do with anything moron. You can still prevent butt wink at a slow speed. This is a horrible video
Did you even have your audio on?
How is HIS buttwink gonna injure other people?
i perforned a squat as shown in this video and now i'm paralyzed from the neck down my life is a living nightmare its kind of like the song one by metallica
Its absurd and dangerous teach all people squating the same way. Sorry but it looks like you stuck 20 years ago with this dogma. Your deepth is funny and this type of squat will be very, very bad for lot of people.