Ron, I need your help concerning my squat form please. Whenever I try to squat, by the time my quads are JUST about parallel with the floor, I feel REALLY tight in the whole hip region/area, and the only way for me to continue to go lower is if I lean my upper body too far forward to the point that I have sprained my low back because I'm now supporting so much weight with just my low back. I don't know what to do. I've tried widening my stance (helped a bit), and if I narow my stance, it's even worse. I see the powerlifters at my gym who squat a ton of weight be ably to squat down and keep their upper body really straight, so all the tension is pretty much on their legs as it should be. I also tried pusing my chest out and looking sort of upward, which also helped a bit, but it's still not perfect. I'm only 5'7 so I shouldn't have this issue. Is this a flexibility thing?? I'm fairly genetically gifted in the leg department, especially the quads, I have a good outer sweep and I can squat 315 for 6. I can do all this with only training my legs twice a year, but the problem is this makes me LAZY for training legs and I no longer want to be like this. I've been incorporating squats for the past several months religiously, but this problem is really putting a damper on my leg training.




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