squat problem?!?!?

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jewfro18

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Ok I have been doing squats over a year now...I spend a lot of time on every lift I do with little weight until my form is really good. For squats, I have always been told I get really low (so my legs form a 90 degree angle), however, not too low...

At school last year we had this thing called the manta ray, which you clipped onto the bar and it just made it easier to put on your back

We dont have that at the gym I am at now, but I still feel liek my form is perfect, however my lower back hurts after

I dont know if I hurt it doing another lifta and it just aggravates when I squat or it is something else..

Any ideas?? thanks for any help
 
Hmmm that's tough to say.
You could easily have done it with another lift executed poorly or with too much weight.
You could have done it squatting...not sure.

Try mixing your workout up a bit and drop one thing here and there. Like if you do deadlifts, don't do them on the next workout. See if your back bothers you. If it does, then it's bad form on deadlifts. I once threw my back doing bicep curls...lol....yeah, talk about lousy form!!!
 
About the squat; here is some suggestions on your form:

1.) Keep back straight
2.) Lower down with your hips; not your knees
3.) Make sure your knees don't go past your toes (if you can't go all the way down without your knees passing your toes; you have to increase your range of motion by strecthing out our hip flexors and your legs.)
 
jmanj, do you also think that you should look UP when squatting, like almost up at the ceiling? I have been told this helps keep your back straighter.
 
dougp25 said:
jmanj, do you also think that you should look UP when squatting, like almost up at the ceiling? I have been told this helps keep your back straighter.
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You never look up. You always look straight forward. Looking down will round your back, looking up will overextend the spine. Doing either can also affect your stability.

Straight forward and with focus.
 
its one of those protecting pads isent it? Thing is, this keeps the bar further away from you're body, causing you to have to lean more forward than if you just put put the bar directly on you're back. which could cause you to more easily bend you're back. and it would put more weight on the lower back anyways.
 
nah its not that type of pad...this is like hard plastic that curves to your back..

I had no problem when I used that one though, and now at my new gym they dont have it, but my form is still fine, but my back hurts when I am done...

Which is why I think its from something else
 
We have one in our weight room, but nobody uses it. It is the same thing, it raises the bar higher, which in turn makes you lean forward more. I say don't use it.
 
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