A lot of the time but not exclusive to all, your core and spine strength is very important to help you maintain your ideal position.
Rather than focusing on how your technique visually looks which a lot of lifters tend to fixate on, why not focus on the feeling and your strength instead?
Learning to understand & listen to your body is a very valuable tool to not only help you grow but also to find your groove in training.
This is where our core strength comes into play, some of us have longer torsos and some of us have longer femurs. It’s very apparent that we’re all built slightly different so it comes as no surprise that our squats can be a little bit different as well. Some can lean over more and some can squat wider, but what do we all have in common?
It’s rigidity. If there’s one thing we can all aim to emulate, it’s developing the confidence and control over the weight we’re lifting. So instead of focusing on how upright we need to be maybe we should focus on how confident we are.
Becoming stronger is one way to start understanding rigidity better but there’s also another factor that’s commonly overlooked and would help. This will be through the practice of the skill that you’re trying to get better at, start understanding how to develop rigidity with lighter weights by being a little bit more explosive and teaching the body to understand how to maintain position so it can be applied to higher intensities or when the weights get heavier.
Reminder: this isn’t something that you can fix within one session, it’s something you’ll have to start slowly developing the confidence in more and more so you truly believe you can break past your limits.
As always let me know if this helped and I’m always here to chat if you need it, see you all next week!
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