{"id":10525,"date":"2016-08-24T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/squat-form-critique-detailed-exercise-technique-breakdown\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T17:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:52:24","slug":"squat-form-critique-detailed-exercise-technique-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/squat-form-critique-detailed-exercise-technique-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Squat Form Critique &#8211; detailed exercise technique breakdown&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to break down proper squat form &#038; learn how to correct some common squatting technique mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Most people classify the squat as a &#8220;leg&#8221; exercise, but it&#8217;s really a full body exercise that works every major muscle group to some degree &#8211; especially the legs, hips, back, and mid-section.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to building muscle and strength, squats will help increase your flexibility, mobility, and it&#8217;s a movement pattern that will carry over into improving your functional strength.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never received proper coaching with the squat, than you might be making some very common beginner squatting mistakes. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to cover in the video below. You&#8217;re going to learn everything you need to know to improve your squatting technique so that you can squat more comfortably, lift heavier weights, and reduce your risk of injury.<\/p>\n<p>Even experienced lifters who have been going to the gym for years can still make some of these common squat technique mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below to find out the RIGHT and WRONG way to perform the barbell squat&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSZ25oVegQk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VSZ25oVegQk\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> To Watch The Full Video On YouTube.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Fixing exercise mistakes and adapting to a new technique isn&#8217;t going to happen instantly in just one workout. So be patient, take your time, and focus learning proper squatting form over the course of several squat workouts. But once you do master proper squat form you will notice better overall muscle &#038; strength gains in the gym!<\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<B><U>NOTE:<\/b><\/u><br \/>\nIf you would like more info about proper squatting technique, I recommend that you check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/how-to-do-full-squats\"><U>How To Squat Blog Post<\/u><\/a>. This covers several tutorial videos that dive into different aspects of squatting.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently one of my subscribers sent me a video of himself doing the squat and he asked for my opinion, insights, and some constructive criticism of his lifting form. So that&#8217;s exactly what we\u2019re going to cover in this squat technique video breakdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leg-workouts","category-squat-workouts","category-workout-exercise-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-2JL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10525"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10536,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions\/10536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}