Ok so, recently I found out that, if I squat with plates under my heels like pic related, I can go waaaayy deeper, like, almost ass to the ground deep. It also makes my body feel like its in a more natural position. Whereas when squatting normally I sometimes even have trouble reaching parallel and I generally feel uncomfortable in my hips and knees.
Can I keep squatting with plates under my heels so I can go way deeper and not have discomfort in my joints, or is doing this not good and should I return to regular squats with less ROM
It means you have shit ankle mobility nigger. Work on that.
Joshua Phillips
This. Stretch more.
Lucas King
Just buy weightlifting shoes dude. I wear adidas adipower in the gym, it’s got a 3/4 inch heel so you can hit squat depth
Cameron Cruz
Stop being poor and buy some weightlifting shoes.
Logan Phillips
So plates under heels just mimics weightlifting shoes' heel elevation? So its no problem to do it? Yeah Im too poor to buy them, theyre expensive
I do stretch my legs/hip flexors etc quite a bit. Never thought of trying to increase ankle mobility, Ill try that
Jonathan Mitchell
Enjoy fucking your knees up.
Bentley Perry
Buy weightlifting shoes, they are cheap.
Ian Ortiz
yeah its fine, but as user said, while you use the plates, try and work on ankle mobility. if you can do it without the plates, its better
Juan Rivera
100-200 dollars aint cheap... I live alone in my own appartment while paying for my own college. I have no money to spare feelsbadman
Austin Hall
Do what l did Go to your local army surplus store and buy some used boots for 25$
Zachary Ramirez
Yeah maybe 2nd hand is an option... Ill check it out
Benjamin Howard
Bullshit how would using plates fuck your knees up?
Joshua Butler
Ass to grass is not as good as people think. Using plates will make you go deeper but with bad form, causing knee slide. Also, you're just partially covering a problem instead of working on fixing it. Learn proper form:
>ATG is bad >every single professional olympic weightlifter is doing it wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!
Samuel Kelly
>Ass to grass is not as good as people think.
>>ATG is bad Yeah, you should learn to read.
Jacob Long
>Plates under heels
used by weak pussies with shit ankles.
Kevin Flores
>not squatting barefoot quit cheating yourselves
Landon Robinson
are people using weightlifting shoes also weak pussies with shit ankles then? the concept of raising heels is the same
Jonathan Martin
it's ok if you keep yourself from rounding your lower back for me, i noticed that going too far below parallel makes me buttwink (round my lower back) so i need to stretch my hamstrings out before i try them.
Jaxson Mitchell
You can buy appropriately high heel risers/ heel lifts from amazon for like nothing, and it's practically a lifting shoe
Brayden Robinson
Those have compressible soles and are absolutely shit because of that. Weightlifting shoes are so valuable because the soles/heels are hard and incompressible and the stable platform they give you.
Eli Cox
how the fuck do you spread the floor when you lift with plates?
Henry Fisher
I have shit ankles and long femurs
Mason Bailey
>I feel way natural and comfortable doing the movement like X Yes, this shouldn't be a question.
Just do it with the plates under your feet and work on your ankle mobility int he meantime
Joshua Reed
God just saw a lanklet do this while quarter squatting lmao1pl8.
He had squat shoes too...
Robert Sanchez
rubberized plates
Jordan Turner
If I tried doing squats I'm afraid the brown devil will appear
Grayson Martinez
>low bar Into the trash
Dylan Flores
desu you don't need femurs to run
Austin Walker
>Atg is bad when you dont do it right Wow
Jaxson Green
I have some fuckedup feet and used olatea to go atg for a while. Then I worked on my mobility and although I don't go atg my liftst feel alot better. It was mainly my hamstrings which where tight AF
Blake Miller
Jesus fucking Christ when the LBTQ crowds are out of outlines for their flags do they use your feet?
Carter Cruz
Holy shit, haven’t laughed this hard in years
Aaron Stewart
Fuck it, I'm for the bodypositive movement now. HAES!
Carter Morris
>Alan "pube beard" Thrall
Colton Lewis
>linking an allan thrall video unironically
Jacob Howard
Holy rainbow feet wtf
Anthony Murphy
i wear weightlifting shoes because i compete in weightlifting and i cant just ask three judges and the event organiser to seat up plates next to the bar every time i lift.