Sentences with phrase «rounding during squats»

Many people have trouble keeping their backs from rounding during squats, and unfortunately, this can easily lead to back injury.

Not exact matches

Point # 2: During a pistol squat, rounding the lower back is unavoidable.

But then we are told not to round our backs during squats or have any butt wink, so this is what confuses me.

This is no reason to not perform them, however, and the mistakes that make these lifts potentially dangerous are more often than not the result of imbalances (quad / hamstring imbalances leading to knees bowing in or forward during the squat), disproportionately weak muscles (lower back rounding during the deadlift), or balance issues that absolutely need to be addressed for the athlete.

However, there are some commonly - used movement tests using categorical measurements that are much less well - defined, such as for knee valgus or lumbar rounding during the back squat.

For example, tests are used for identifying the presence of knee valgus during drop landings (Nyman & Armstrong, 2015), knee valgus during the barbell back squat (Kushner et al. 2015; Snarr & McGinn, 2015), or lumbar rounding during the barbell back squat (Kushner et al. 2015; Snarr & McGinn, 2015).

Besides, if you primarily want to build a round booty without activating the quads or hamstrings too much (whichget plenty of activation during most of the lower body exercises such as deadlifts and squats), then we want to do whatever we can to balance the emphasis of the thighs with emphasis on the glutes.