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Anyone here have an exercise that they just don't do well?
I'm just awful at squatting. The weight feels awkward on my shoulders, when I'm descending I feel like the weight's going to topple me forward. My knees snap out, or in sometimes, when I'm trying to press back up. They shake like tree limbs in a violent storm. My legs are tilted when I come back up, kinda like this: / /, although sometimes they're tilted the other way: \ \ . My hips aren't even, and my waist juts out at the top. They even make my stomach hurt, even 135 lbs. Plus they hurt my lower back and I feel like it's almost like doing a good morning when i lock out at the top. Plus when I get to parallel or below I just don't feel like I have any power coming out of the hole, i feel like it's all knee ligament and spine doing the work. I watched some videos on hip drive, but the techniques didn't help one bit. I can deadlift 430 lbs, bench 285, and I can barely squat 275. I can actually bench 225 around 15 times, but can squat it only 6 lol. The thing is, I get all of those problems I just described even with 185 lbs, which is below my bodyweight of about 190 at 5 10
It's weird, because my ass & hamstrings are hugely disproportional due to the deadlifting. My lower back feels like it's made out of iron the muscles are so dense there...yet my squat is abominable.
What's your kryptonite exercise, if you have one?
I'm just awful at squatting. The weight feels awkward on my shoulders, when I'm descending I feel like the weight's going to topple me forward. My knees snap out, or in sometimes, when I'm trying to press back up. They shake like tree limbs in a violent storm. My legs are tilted when I come back up, kinda like this: / /, although sometimes they're tilted the other way: \ \ . My hips aren't even, and my waist juts out at the top. They even make my stomach hurt, even 135 lbs. Plus they hurt my lower back and I feel like it's almost like doing a good morning when i lock out at the top. Plus when I get to parallel or below I just don't feel like I have any power coming out of the hole, i feel like it's all knee ligament and spine doing the work. I watched some videos on hip drive, but the techniques didn't help one bit. I can deadlift 430 lbs, bench 285, and I can barely squat 275. I can actually bench 225 around 15 times, but can squat it only 6 lol. The thing is, I get all of those problems I just described even with 185 lbs, which is below my bodyweight of about 190 at 5 10
It's weird, because my ass & hamstrings are hugely disproportional due to the deadlifting. My lower back feels like it's made out of iron the muscles are so dense there...yet my squat is abominable.
What's your kryptonite exercise, if you have one?