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Originally Posted by Cynic
I saw from your 7/7 post that you have trouble with your squats. I had a similar problem. The prescription was front squats. It shifts the weight forward, forcing you to maintain an upright posture more.
The strength to maintain posture with a back squat will come, but you should consider an alternate until that time comes.
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I'm still working on my back squat form, but old habits do die hard. I can get to parallel with a sumo stance and low bar position on my back, but I'm leaning too far forward at the bottom, so I end up putting the force of the weight on my back and knees to come out of the hole. Not good for my old rickety knees.
My front squats draw a crowd, they're so entertaining. I usually fall on my ass at the bottom, and lean too far forward, again, coming out of the hole, that I need to dump the bar onto the safety pins.
Balance and coordination are foreign to me. I'm ashamed to say that I never learned to ride a bike as a kid, probably for the same reason. The teasing and humiliation hurt far more than the scraped elbows and knees ever did. But I'll be damned if I can't get this squat movement down, or die trying!!!!!!!!
You should see me on a Swiss ball. Chevy Chase is jealous of my falls and tumbles.