Fitness thread

I appreciate the help on the deadlifts, but:

Your squats you're swaying a lot and from what I can tell just briefly watching it one time (I'll rematch again later), [1] you pause at the bottom of your squat. You should really try and keep it all one fluent movement so that way you get the full extension of your hamstring and the lift back up. [2] It looks like your stance might also be a little too close together and that's causing some of your balance issue. Either widen up a bit or go do the vagina stretcher machine to strengthen your inner thighs a bit. [3] Also you're just barely going past parallel from what I can see.

1. I don't. The bar certainly slows down towards the end of the negative (Decelerating to prepare for change in direction of velocity) and at the start of the upward motion (Applying upward force to the bar from zero velocity/acceleration), but at no point do I just pause at the bottom of the squat. I did this a few months ago and it used to make me fail sets, but I've actively stopped.

2. My feet are past shoulder width in that video and my knees flare slightly. It might be the camera angle. I see what you mean by the balance issue/swaying; I think it's because I exaggerate the loading of my posterior chain on the way up. I notice my toes come off the floor as that happens. Not sure how to fix it if it's an issue.

3. That's the bottom of my range of motion, or the lowest I can go without starting to round my back. If I'm not hitting below parallel now then I'm not sure if I can ever do it.