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Since ive been back at lifting ive adopted a medium squat stance... With my feet pretty much in line with my shoulders or a little past. Which in retrospect is wide considering how I use to squat in my younger days. Since I tended to squat High bar Olympic style. I came across this article recently by Jamie Lewis of Chaos and Pain
http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2012/07/squatting-like-youre-ceo-of-paper.html
It made several good points in my opinion....To the point I actually tried going extra wide once on one of my heavier sets. It felt awkward , mainly due to the fact Ive never really gone wide..BUT I actually felt like my hips and glutes were actually getting more involved in the lift. Not to mention it seemed to take a few inches off of how far I traveled to hit parallela.
Stan Efferding squatting with a wide squat raw
At this point going into my next Meet I will pretty much stay with my current stance. After which I will spent some time and experiment with a wider stance.
If it isn't broke....... U just set a p/r in the squat at ur last meet I think u should keep going the way you are. Maybe do it as an assesory but don't change ur competion stance. Just my two cents
ReplyDeleteAnd again...I'm not changing anything at this point. After the next Meet when im more into a off season mode I plan on experimenting with it. Besides for awhile after the next Meet I don't see my base strength going up at any rate since im going to bite the bullet and pay more attention toward conditioning for a block of time. To drop some excess body fat along with improving my work capacity.
ReplyDeleteThat was a really interesting link, thanks for sharing, now I feel like playing with my squat stance a bunch.
ReplyDeleteYour welcomed, Hope you have luck with it.
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