Today my brother and I realised that our squatting form isnt perfect due to some lower back rounding at the bottom of the squat. I was told that it's mostly because I'm squatting too deep - we nearly go arse to grass because I thought parallel was bad. It turns out that you break parallel with your hamstrings but hit just below parallel with the ground with your quads.
I tried out doing some empty-bar box squats with a small chair set up to that height. Since we don't need to go so deep anymore, the rounding has mostly disappeared (hips slightly bob, but that can be fixed by increasing hamstring flexibility, which is continuously improving). Any experiences with box squats? Can I replace normal squats with them for a while to improve my technique? I hear they can be better than squats since they force you to use your hips/posterior chain more due to the dead start. I'm having problems getting the hip drive, mostly because I'm learning all this off a book and the net while also trying to teach my brother, so these box squats seem pretty useful.
I tried out doing some empty-bar box squats with a small chair set up to that height. Since we don't need to go so deep anymore, the rounding has mostly disappeared (hips slightly bob, but that can be fixed by increasing hamstring flexibility, which is continuously improving). Any experiences with box squats? Can I replace normal squats with them for a while to improve my technique? I hear they can be better than squats since they force you to use your hips/posterior chain more due to the dead start. I'm having problems getting the hip drive, mostly because I'm learning all this off a book and the net while also trying to teach my brother, so these box squats seem pretty useful.
