Nik was kind enough to let me film his movement, and I've slowed it to three quarter speed in the video below.I wanted to add a brief Blog to the video just to highlight a couple of things that can be observed:
- Unrestricted movement at the knees - yes they can safely travel in front of the toes as outlined in this previous Blog.
- A wall ball is placed behind Nik to provide feedback on his depth. Nik uses the ball to help remind him of depth late in the sets when he gets tired - one less thing to think about. The wall ball is soft so it also allows contact without the jarring that we might see if we used a hard plyo box.
- Speaking of depth - what we see in the video is squatting to a very functional depth - deep enough to really test the glutes, quads, calf mobility and postural strength.
- Nik's spinal posture is (at least in my opinion) amazing to the depth he is squatting. Not a butt wink to be seen - and this should be our goal when squatting to any depth - a rigid neutral spine is your best protection from injury. Keeping that strong neutral spine is more important than squatting lower with poor posture.
