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Do This EVERY Time You Squat! (HUGE DIFFERENCE)

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t have the strength you think you should with this staple leg exercise, then you need to watch this video. I-m going to show you one thing you need to do before any squat that will instantly help you decrease knee discomfort and put more weight on the bar as you realize your true strength. The effectiveness of this relies on the dysfunctional recruitment of the posterior chain (namely the glutes and hamstrings) that most of us have from muscle imbalances we have developed over time. When you perform a squat you need to be able to load the muscles on the back side of our bodies to handle as much weight as we are capable of. All too often, we tend to shift the load too much to the anterior chain muscles which winds up hurting our knees and limiting the amount of weight we can lift. There are two major requirements of a properly performed squat biomechanically. You need to have proper amounts of knee flexion and hip flexion. One without the other can lead to one ugly looking squat. That said, if you can marry the two and optimize the contributions of each you are going to have a squat that is not only capable of handling maximal loads but is going to do so as safely as possible on your joints. That said, since we know the squat is a glute driven movement it makes sense that in order to neurologically wake up the posterior chain we would want to perform a quick warmup with an exercise that does so directly. In this case, it-s a weighted glute bridge or a barbell hip thrust depending on your available hip range of motion and level of training experience. I like to start everyone on the floor if they have not done this exercise prior to squats before. The key to the effectiveness of the movement is that it trains the glutes to be the primary driver of hip extension while working in concert with the hamstrings (which is their secondary function. With both the knees and hips in flexion, we are better mimicking the true function of the lower body during the squats. When you perform your weighted bridge you want to be sure that you are feeling the hinge take place in your hips. A lot of times, the proprioceptive awareness of what true hip hinging should feel like is lacking. This leads to an overreliance on the quads to try and take the brunt of the load on the squat. After performing the bridge however, the glutes are more prepared to allow the posterior loading of the body during the descent. Likewise, the hamstrings are more alert to their role as eccentric controllers of hip flexion during the down portion of the squat and are therefore more capable of giving you stability that you have not had. On the way up, the activation of the glutes provides you with keys to the ignition of the main driver of the ascent on the squat. While the quads are important for getting out of the hole, it-s the glutes that are primarily responsible (with their immense strength capacity) for getting you up and out with minimal disruption to your bar path. Those with weak glutes will demonstrate ugly looking squat form out of the whole. Often times, these guys and gals will lurch their bodies forward, raising the hips and shifting the load to their low backs to compromise for their weaknesses in the glutes. Over time, this will lead to chronic low back pain and is completely avoidable. A couple sets of 6-8 reps of the barbell glute bridge or barbell hip thrust with a 4 second hold at the top is enough to warm up the body to perform the squat to your maximum potential. Neurologically this will allow you to tap into strength reserves you never knew you had all while building up your volume over time through your other leg training on the glutes and posterior chain muscles. If you are looking for a step by step program that never overlooks the importance of the glutes when it comes to athletic performance and obtaining your most powerful physique, head to the link below and
Date: 2022-04-22

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Comments and reviews: 10

zln
Hi! I have started with 5x5 Stronlift where I am squatting 3 times/week. I usually do Barebell Hip Thrusts at the end of the program to further strengthen my glutes. I wonder if doing hip thrusts before squats is going to limit the weight to only -warm-up weghts- and if so, should I do a heavy set of hip thrusts at the end of the program again. Or is it okey to do heavier hip thrusts before squats without concern of how it affetcs the weight I can put on on squats to be able to follow the program
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Anisul
dear jeff,
hope you doing great, I have some difficulty doing hip thrust, whenever I am trying to do hip thrust. my hamstring muscle (semitendinosus) turn over. and that time I could not move because of pain. and its ruined my other workout, in another way I have knee ligament injury, please advice how to relax my ham sting muscle before started hip thrust, and before I start leg workout, what kind of excessive needed to the active knee and hamstring muscle.
thanks
ANis
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Moshavnik7272
I have been doing squats while holding a dumbbell against my chest. I currently use a 60lb dumbbell. Is there an advantage to doing squats with a barbell on my shoulders as you demonstrate in this video? I have always felt an oppressive pressure on my chest with the dumbbell pressing against me. I wonder if switching to the barbell behind the neck will relieve that pressure on my chest and perhaps allow me to increase the weight and reps. What do you suggest?
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Charmed
Oh my freaking god I had huge problems with my squat and my knees were killing me so I gave up squaring but recently decided to give it another try so I started watching ur videos on squatting and patellar problems and then followed this warm up today. I have never felt so good and strong on leg day. I went over 300 I-m working sets for the first time even hit 550 for 10 on the leg press. I-m 215 thank u thank u thank u
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Azvasa
This is actually the warmup i do for my yoga classes. no weights though. one thing i do add. is raising one foot just 1 inch off the ground. core activation is %100 needed to do this properly. hips cant sink or you have to start over; ). and the same awakening happens as you instructed. love this! thanks a ton brother. amazing vids as always
any other info or comments are welcomed
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Michelle
You probably won't read this because the Video is old. But you are teaching people butt out. It should be butt down. Butt makes peoples back go flat and the higher weight will hurt them. It should be like a base ball catcher. Butt down go past parallel and then back up. If it 's Butt down the back is at a more erect position and people can life heavier weight.
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Nosdi
As a young man just starting to do squats and deadlifts with my father spotting me we made the mistake of not realizing that to do this warmup you have to use much bigger weights to get your legs underneath. After constantly reiterating to me to lift with my legs, he ended up trying to lift it off me with his back and got hurt.
Feels bad.
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Panagiotis
Hi Jeff and greetings from Greece. just one question should my knees flex a bit over the knee than trying to keep them backward? i ask cause i think you mention it in another video. i always warm calf and achilion tendons to be more flexible so tibia can follow femur and decrease the pressure at knee joints. thank you in advance!
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Alex
Hip thrusts don't always have to be a warm-up. Spoiler alert. it's a major component of the AX-1 program. Also, if the bgoal is to warm-up the knee via a hip thrsuting movement in order to prep for squats, you can save your energy and just do body-weight versions of single-leg glute bridges.
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Mmm
3: 02 - awaken, love that.
Just got a flash of a swoll Gandalf with an Olympic bar for a staff Infront of the power rack.
Swoll Gandalf: -Did you awaken the glute elfs with the epic hip thrust? -
Me: -no sorry, I don't believe I did-
Swoll Gandalf: -YOU SHALL NOT PASS! -
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