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A side angle would be very useful. Other then the one side bias being seen on a few of the reps its hard to see to much more to critique.
 
Cheers Syla - will do side angle tonight.... just wondering if bar position is okay (low enough on back), squat depth ok (or is it hard to tell?), feet width and angle ok.., speed (giraffe says too fast)
 
I'm on exactly the same weight as you, 92.5kg, coincidentally. I find the bar quite uncomfortable to hold sometimes, so I occasionally spread my arms and hold the bar near to the weights. It doesn't make much difference to the squat. The way you place the weight on your shoulders seems to be critical, and if I found it to be wonky on my first squat, I'd immediately re-rack and start again.

This video helped me a lot with bar placement:

 
spluff said:
Would appreciate any advice/comments on my squat form @ 92.5kg

Thanks
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Brace your core properly (imagine you're squeezing out the biggest battler ever), slower and don't drop so low.

Your lean is probably caused by going too low, which is causing your core bracing to screw up (as your hips tuck under) because you aren't controlling the squat properly. ;)

Drop the weight down by around 20kg and try some squats there so we can see what goes on at lower weights...
 
This is entirely down to if you are trying to squat low bar or high bar, and a side angle will help understand this more clearly.

Going from what I can see it appears you are high bar squatting but based on your comments you mean to be low bar squatting.
 
spluff said:
Would appreciate any advice/comments on my squat form @ 92.5kg

Thanks
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Looks like you are placing too much of the push on the front which looks as though the lift is predominately through your knees, hard to explain but I push up via the heel. Best way I learnt to squat was by placing a bench behind you and get the action of sitting down right. Don't immediately go heavy, build yourself up with correct technique.
 
Cheers guys will lower weight and do a video front and side at same time..... want to get technique right as its getting very heavy for me now and I don't want to cause any damage :)

I thought I was low bar squatting as the bar seems very low at my shoulders...

I didn't realise I was going too low - I thought maybe I was about right or not low enough - as my hip crease is just about on my knee height....

Yes I feel that my knees / legs are where a lot of the power is coming from

Nice one Giraffe - you wont regret it :)
 
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DarkShadow said:
When did you stop and how come bruh?
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Injured my left shoulder and both knees back in 2013. They still aren't 100% but I'm at least able to lift with them now. Currently sitting at 80kg but focusing on gaining some size and correcting some imbalances.
 
Deadlifts I place the weights on 2 blankets - I need it a little higher anyway because of my physique and it deadens the sound... The main noise is when I bench, it sometimes clatters back onto the hooks...
 
LiE said:
Injured my left shoulder and both knees back in 2013. They still aren't 100% but I'm at least able to lift with them now. Currently sitting at 80kg but focusing on gaining some size and correcting some imbalances.
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Woah had no idea. Hope you're feeling better man. What happened with the shoulder and both knees?
 
DarkShadow said:
Woah had no idea. Hope you're feeling better man. What happened with the shoulder and both knees?
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Shoulder I'm not sure, but it got to the point when I was at the top of of a press I would get a nasty twinge. I went to see @icecold 's physio who did some great work in restoring it to the point where I could use it again. It's not 100% but I can happily bench press over 100-120 without pain.

Knees, well that was likely due to a build up of tightness due to my job - lots of driving and sitting at a desk isn't compatible with heavy squatting twice a week. I've had a MRI since and both knees are slightly off centre and my left knee which is the worst has a mild ACL strain.

Doing 30 minutes of mobility before squatting now and worked on my form a little more and I'm now squatting 100-130.

Focus now is to keep in shape and improve my knees and shoulder.

2015 I was as low as 75kg, I'm now 80kg.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Benching as much as you're squatting is seriously impressive, though!
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Ha not really, it just highlights the weakness of my squat. It's understandable though, my shoulder was getting better long before my knees. I had to start again with 20kg DB press. I usually do 80x10x3 for working sets on bench and 100x8x3 on squat.

Nothing like back in 2013 when I was doing 140x10 on bench and 180x10 on squat QQ.
 
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