+1. I’ve been trying to do a low bar squat for about a month now and kept on wondering how to drive the knees out. Also, I’ve never pulled sumo, so it’s understandable. 🤷🏻♂️
@@Artaxerxes. , I’ve got extremely poor ankle mobility due to having really dominant calves, so I’ve been trying heavy squats since recently. I also do 300kg for 20 reps standing machine calf raises at 79kg bw. Do you?
Maaaan, that is such a simple cue. I've been so focused on my knees turning out properly and completely not think about my hips coming into play. Thank you!
This advice is gold. I start every squat rep this way as a part of my bracing. It's a fantastic way to simplify and stabilize the movement by preloading the movers.
I can report that ive been a very tight hipped poor squatter for a life time. This was the first mental key that made sense to me and boom. Low controlled squat. Awesome. Ive been working on my knees hips n toes for a year now thanks to your video and book
@@marabunta1980 good actually. Funny topic. But yes Ive been in different shoes and find myself stretching my hips knees ankles n toes throughout the day. Im pretty convinced theres whole new layers of strength balance and coordination along the path. Side note, I think theres even emotional and spiritual things shifting as I clear things out.
@@jackmeehov8917 you named a few guys that are heavy benchers but not deadlift/squat, and Coan has higher total scores despite weighing significantly less. Coan is my pick.
The squat becomes a hip movement when you do this, taking tension off quads. Try it but try and make sure you’re always feeling that pressure in the quads
@@willostrand6555 The squat is a compound lift that works all the leg muscles, from your glutes down to the muscles in your feet. It’s impossible for a squat to “take the tension off your quads” since they’re required to get you low and back up again; especially a squat done with proper form like this. Going ass to grass gives you a fuller range of motion and has all your leg muscles more time under tension. Performing a squat any other way is just doing half, or 3/4, reps. Watch any clip of Tom Platz doing a squat, then come back here and tell us again how this isn’t the optimal way to do a squat…
I have been suffering from a grinding knee for almost 4 weeks now and have avoided squatting because it’s grinds every time. I follow thèse tips and no knee grinding at all.
@@dannyrios2004 don’t think so? Just did some self examinations for it and I experience none of the symptom pain. I think it’s from tight hip flexors and weak glutes pulling the knee and compensating. I have never felt the flute activation like this video showed before in a squat
Maybe knee tracking issue. I was able to pop my knee back into place and later on squat again. I did think i was losing cartilage or or tore something. Obviously not.
Everyone’s squat is slightly different if they’re doing it correctly because everyone’s joints have a different range of motion your perfect squat might hurt my back or my knees and vice versa I get down there when I squat but they’re ours different foot positions I wouldn’t even try less I want to pinch a nerve
Hugely embarrassing to see people not realising that this is essentially the perfect human physique for strength. Time to step away from IG people smfh
Come on guys, this is getting silly now; all the sycophancy combined with insisting that being a fat ba*tard is an ideal. I get it, people think this guy is some kind-of God, and he's probably strong (like lots of normal overweight guys are without being powerlifting deities), but if I saw him in my local gym and he tried to advise me, I would likely ignore him. Like the *vast majority* of gym-goers, I'm not striving to look like that quite frankly, and I rarely have to lift a car off someone and require superhuman strength, so I shall stick with trying to look more aesthetic thanks, even if I'm not 'bodybuilding' as such. I don't think it is in any way embarassing to not want to carry around so much fat.
If you try what he’s doing in the video a few times you might understand. “Breaking” the hips back is just unlocking your hips and pushing your waist down (and ass backward) and into your hip/upper thigh crease where they meet. If you practice this (without bending your knees any further down than a soft unlocked knee) you’ll feel that there is a point where the hips can’t move back any further and your waist and hip crease can’t touch anymore without you allowing yours knees to bend. I hope that kind of explains it. Just search more videos of Ed coan teaching squat.
Brace the core. Head and hips rise the same time. Don’t open to much some don’t have the same physiological make up as others. Long femur short femur. Get into a rested squat as your just sitting then chest back rise and fall naturally just brace the core. Also repent Confess Believe Love and obey 1Corinthians 15:1-4 Romans 10:9-11 Exodus 20:2-17 Revelation 22:14
Greatest powerlifter of all time. His 2400+ numbers at 220 is epic. That was practically raw. He did it back when gear was ace bandages and stretchy squat suits and shirts. Oh no, will I be banned by the WADA for watching this video? Rock on Ed.
I try to keep my knees in front of me every rep. I used to have my legs positioned like he does here, slightly pointed out, knees aligned with the toes. I can squat a lot more the second way, but have read that keeping the knees forward is important for correct load management. Any thoughts on this? Is it good to practice both?
do they call him that because hes the same height as a goat? this dudes so short he doesnt have to bend any body parts to do a squat. GOAT of leverage.
He’s got that bullfrog physique
Lmao bro put into words something I always wanted to say
Every successful powerlifter looks ridiculous. Maybe it just shows how ridiculous the whole "sport" is.
Helps a ton to have such proportionately short legs
@@139-b7jmany successful powerlifters have good physiques
@@139-b7j Let me guess you are a crossfitter or a bodybuilder who only uses machines?
"not pushing my knees out" is a phrase I will be replaying in my head
Good mental note
+1. I’ve been trying to do a low bar squat for about a month now and kept on wondering how to drive the knees out. Also, I’ve never pulled sumo, so it’s understandable. 🤷🏻♂️
Just think about a piece of paper between your legs and try to split that piece of paper.
@@shadyops3535 it's strange that you're so unfamiliar with your own body
@@Artaxerxes. , I’ve got extremely poor ankle mobility due to having really dominant calves, so I’ve been trying heavy squats since recently. I also do 300kg for 20 reps standing machine calf raises at 79kg bw. Do you?
He told me once at a meet in Omaha to open up my taint. Best advice I've gotten on my squat.😂
😂 they say that in wing Chun as well. It's quite an ice breaker.
Probably also says, "hang from shoulders". Natural movement is natural movement.
Just make sure there isnt a porno set behind you
Lmaooo the ol' open nifkin trick
100% Seth I was 50 when I heard this from Ed on one of his videos it is absolute GOLD!!
Yep. 100% the best way to explain it!
Maaaan, that is such a simple cue. I've been so focused on my knees turning out properly and completely not think about my hips coming into play. Thank you!
This is the best advise/cue I've ever get in regards of the squats.
Advice* I’ve ever gotten*
Do you English? Duh.
We can tell he is powerlifting goat by those non existing femurs,my mans knees attach to his hips.
😂
Born 2 Squat
Yes it is main point to squat big.
no quad gawd
Cotton Hill vibes
This advice is gold. I start every squat rep this way as a part of my bracing. It's a fantastic way to simplify and stabilize the movement by preloading the movers.
Explain
Crazy how this dude went his whole career without suffering an injury. He really was made for powerlifting.
He snapped his leg during a meet .
I spent a week with him in south Carolina at the 2001 uspf bench nationals he was wearing a leg brace
I can report that ive been a very tight hipped poor squatter for a life time. This was the first mental key that made sense to me and boom. Low controlled squat. Awesome. Ive been working on my knees hips n toes for a year now thanks to your video and book
Too be honest, same on my side.
How the toes?
@@marabunta1980 good actually. Funny topic. But yes Ive been in different shoes and find myself stretching my hips knees ankles n toes throughout the day. Im pretty convinced theres whole new layers of strength balance and coordination along the path. Side note, I think theres even emotional and spiritual things shifting as I clear things out.
This man right here is the best to ever do it. Greatest power lifter of all time Ed Coan !!
No.
@@jackmeehov8917if Ed isn’t the goat, who is??
@KCNYC Mark Henry, Julius Maddux, Eric Lillebridge, Scott Mendelson to name a few
@@jackmeehov8917 you named a few guys that are heavy benchers but not deadlift/squat, and Coan has higher total scores despite weighing significantly less. Coan is my pick.
I’m not bending my legs I’m folding them
Powerlifting Mike Wazowski!
😂😂😂
Mr Ed Coan is legitimately built to be the optimal powelifter
Thank you, sir.
bro just solved my problem
Breaking down the movement into phases is such a good way to think about it
This is it. This right here this the one😱☝️
Simple yet effective trick and it should become a technique, not just a trick
I just tried a body weight squat doing what he said and man that feels good gonna try to do that my next leg day
The squat becomes a hip movement when you do this, taking tension off quads. Try it but try and make sure you’re always feeling that pressure in the quads
@@willostrand6555 The squat is a compound lift that works all the leg muscles, from your glutes down to the muscles in your feet. It’s impossible for a squat to “take the tension off your quads” since they’re required to get you low and back up again; especially a squat done with proper form like this. Going ass to grass gives you a fuller range of motion and has all your leg muscles more time under tension. Performing a squat any other way is just doing half, or 3/4, reps.
Watch any clip of Tom Platz doing a squat, then come back here and tell us again how this isn’t the optimal way to do a squat…
@@willostrand6555I do toes forward about shoulder width then toes at a 45 out and to where I can get good depth.
Perfect advice
Great cue! 👍
He's giving ques that great for his build.
Anyone else just try this and have their mind blown
Just did, squatted yesterday thinking knees out, so excited to try this cue, bodyweight was already great
Insane
Gotta try
@@jjamo1225 10/10 would recommend!
Spread your taint!
THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT. THAGOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAÀAATTT
THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! THAT’S WHY HE’S THE MVP!
Great Ed Coan !!!
Real 🐐 Power
Ed Coan is the man. Remember him from Quads in Calumet City. Straight beast !!! Good dude to.
i thought i had bad form when i wanted to do this instinctively
Good Instincts
Open up the taint
I still don't understand 😭😭
Once you do, you will reconsider who your true lord and saviour is
This tip is awesome. Just tried it and my form greatly improved
Man could lift a mountain with that technique 👌
Ed!!!!! Learned so much from him through Mark Bell!! Wow, great to see Ed Coan still out there helping us get better as lifters!!
I have been suffering from a grinding knee for almost 4 weeks now and have avoided squatting because it’s grinds every time. I follow thèse tips and no knee grinding at all.
Did you tear your meniscus or something? Your knee shouldn’t be grinding.
@@dannyrios2004 don’t think so? Just did some self examinations for it and I experience none of the symptom pain. I think it’s from tight hip flexors and weak glutes pulling the knee and compensating. I have never felt the flute activation like this video showed before in a squat
Maybe knee tracking issue. I was able to pop my knee back into place and later on squat again. I did think i was losing cartilage or or tore something. Obviously not.
@@RJ-is9ko
How did you fix your knee?
Im very grateful I have no idea what knee grinding is.
Instructions unclear, back is broken
I'm a 6'7 bean pole with long thighs. This cue actually felt good testing it with some air squats
Squat so much heavy weight that he is now in permanent squat position.😅
Unfortunately my ankle mobility is still restricting me , rip
Tell Ed Coan to trade those Clifton 8s in for some Topo Ultraflys or Altra Torins!!
I just squatted correctly
Oh geez I just did that and it popped my back on the way down. Let's go again
i get the feeling this guy can tip over an ambulance
The best around.
When i squat like this its more comfortable but im stronger with a feet forward shoulder width stance with a ton of knee travel
For elite squatting, i thought his stance was too wide??
Depends on how deep the hips are and how long the thigh is.
Ed Coan ....!!
🙏🙏
Anatoly style. I get it and I like it!!
This is how I do my heaviest squats
Who is this man exactly?
Super ……🥂
Oh Tks, help a lot
Sumo squat
Not sure everyone else's body proportions match his...
His feet are practically parallel with his body lol
Everyone’s squat is slightly different if they’re doing it correctly because everyone’s joints have a different range of motion your perfect squat might hurt my back or my knees and vice versa I get down there when I squat but they’re ours different foot positions I wouldn’t even try less I want to pinch a nerve
Hay ed don't forget about the taint😂
eddie did amazing things with and without drugs even for a little guy
GOAT powerlifter squat tip
Eddy Coan
How can one do a tom platz stance squat?
Get angled shoes
@@Raiden-pm2ip I do, but his stance seems close footed. He squats are just cool to look at. He made it look easy.
It depends your body structure. You have to find easiest technique for you. Most balanced, what feels natural.
@@Raiden-pm2ip hahaha chump. have better mobility and don't squat like a toad
Hugely embarrassing to see people not realising that this is essentially the perfect human physique for strength. Time to step away from IG people smfh
Come on guys, this is getting silly now; all the sycophancy combined with insisting that being a fat ba*tard is an ideal. I get it, people think this guy is some kind-of God, and he's probably strong (like lots of normal overweight guys are without being powerlifting deities), but if I saw him in my local gym and he tried to advise me, I would likely ignore him. Like the *vast majority* of gym-goers, I'm not striving to look like that quite frankly, and I rarely have to lift a car off someone and require superhuman strength, so I shall stick with trying to look more aesthetic thanks, even if I'm not 'bodybuilding' as such. I don't think it is in any way embarassing to not want to carry around so much fat.
And just like that, I ripped my shorts...
I tense my pelvic floor when I try this.
Bro built like the Buddha statue in chinese restaurants.
Amazing how Ed is so physically healthy and Ronnie Coleman isn’t yet Ed lifted more as a smaller guy
thank you for the advice. my knees already feel better trying it with no weights
Great knowledge right there
He looks like Gordon from dodgeball. “L is for love…”
The stance 😂
What does he mean by break hips back? If i push my hips back at all i hurt my lower back
What about narrow stance squats?
i have those shoes, runner shoe but it’s padded helps absorb the knee shock
fixed my squatting ig, goddamn awesome
I think this dude just changed my life
😂 Yeah, mine too
It works...no knee pressure! Thanks❤
Exactly how hack squats should be done. Always that bowed stance.
Why would the hips stop after "breaking" them back?
If you try what he’s doing in the video a few times you might understand. “Breaking” the hips back is just unlocking your hips and pushing your waist down (and ass backward) and into your hip/upper thigh crease where they meet. If you practice this (without bending your knees any further down than a soft unlocked knee) you’ll feel that there is a point where the hips can’t move back any further and your waist and hip crease can’t touch anymore without you allowing yours knees to bend. I hope that kind of explains it. Just search more videos of Ed coan teaching squat.
The GOAT. Ed is to power lifting what Michael Jordan is to basketball.
Brace the core. Head and hips rise the same time. Don’t open to much some don’t have the same physiological make up as others. Long femur short femur. Get into a rested squat as your just sitting then chest back rise and fall naturally just brace the core.
Also repent
Confess
Believe
Love and obey
1Corinthians 15:1-4
Romans 10:9-11
Exodus 20:2-17
Revelation 22:14
Everyone has different hip mobility. Everyone is going to have slightly different form.
Greatest powerlifter of all time. His 2400+ numbers at 220 is epic. That was practically raw. He did it back when gear was ace bandages and stretchy squat suits and shirts. Oh no, will I be banned by the WADA for watching this video? Rock on Ed.
The pushing knees out movement come from the hips so why wouldnt you focus on initiating from the hips instead of further down the chain
Great Advice
Think I misunderstood the “break back” instruction… I’m now in hospital with a back brace
Is that The Raven from Barry?
What is the difference in opening the hips vs pushing the knees? Is it related to the angle your knees make to your ankle?
Man would be nice if my femurs were that short in comparison to my body.
He must love squats. I do like being tall though
never squatted like that and never had an issue. not saying he's wrong tho. different things work for different body types
I try to keep my knees in front of me every rep. I used to have my legs positioned like he does here, slightly pointed out, knees aligned with the toes. I can squat a lot more the second way, but have read that keeping the knees forward is important for correct load management. Any thoughts on this? Is it good to practice both?
By open at the hips, do we mean externally rotating at the hip?
I was today years old when I realised it was Nimrat Kaur in the Tera Mera Pyaar video.
Her American accent is on point btw!
Break back? Wouldn't that hurt and be kind of dangerous and crippling?
The word you left out is very important
@@cornnellify There's one with and one without hips. Both cases seem very painful.
Great technique fr overall got buddy shaped like a Battle Toad
Looks/sounds like every middle school football coach in Texas
What does he mean when he says "break back"? I think it's the part I struggle with
do they call him that because hes the same height as a goat? this dudes so short he doesnt have to bend any body parts to do a squat. GOAT of leverage.
If knees fall automatically then how Is someone gonna have the support to lift up?
Okay, now how would you do it if you weren't proportioned like Gimli?
Wtf bruh people always saying knees out, this works way better
This always comes from people with squat genetics
when someone look at you like he did at the end is when you kno they are sayin-sumthin you need to be payin-attention to