Squat Mechanics 101
When Squatting, a few important things you should keep in the back of your head!
- Your feet
- Your feet are key – keep the arch of your foot active.
- Try to spread the floor, as in try to tear the floor inhalf under you by pushing outwards.
- Your knees
- Keep your knees out! We are looking at making them go over our ring ‘finger’ toe.
- It is OKAY for your knees to go over your toes AS LONG as your heels are flat!
- Your torso
- Keep it as vertical as possible! This will minimize stress on your lower back.
- There is such thing as low-bar squatting – this is for anything to do with a front loading. We 99/100 times here at BSP will be in this position – your coaches will notify you if the one variation comes into play where the rules bend slightly!
- Your eyes
- Keep them looking forward – your chest follows your eyes, meaning if you look down, you are going to lean over!