Finally decided to start working out. Turns out I can't do an atg squat. My ankle mobility is too limited to allow me to balance myself at the bottom. I end up looking like pic related if I don't want to fall on my ass.
How can I increase my ankle mobility? Are oly shoes a good idea to counter this issue in the meantime?
Ankle mobility
Jaxon Davis
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Gavin Wilson
Lacrosse ball and foam roll
Stretch
Every day
Dylan Gutierrez
This, buy a lacrosse ball and roll your heels on it for 5 mins before squatting
Colton Allen
Really? I'll give it a shot but I don't understand how this will help my mobility.
Eli Jackson
Put your foot an inch from a wall. Move your knee towards the wall.
Keep heel on ground.
Camden Morgan
Load up a barbell with some weight(less than 45lbs/20kg plates starting off). Deadlift the weight and bring it back down on your knees and rest with it in that position for a min for a few sets. Do this every time you go to the gym.
In the meantime use only shoes.
Jace Gomez
*oly shoes
Levi Butler
It might help a little to take a wider stance. Practice on goblet squats.
Benjamin Sanders
search fix your squat (part 1) on youtube
Mason Clark
But that is Norton's good form...
Xavier Morris
Watch these:
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Basically you need to find the squat and foot positioning which suits your body.
Samuel Allen
This.
I had the same problems with not being able to get full depth and figured it was due to ankle mobility. Turned out my stance was too narrow.
Brayden Brown
>ankle mobility for atg
How is it liinked to ankle mobility?
I can't do it weighted, I fall into the hole and my body won't get back up.
I just go to parallel. Fight me.
Noah Sanders
The idea is to move your hips as straight as possible down into the hole and back out. You need your legs to move out of the way to allow that to happen. You can't get your quads out of the way without hip mobility, and you can't get your calves out of the way without ankle mobility.
The reason you can't get back out of the hole is becuase you're moving off the line either forward or backwards because of, you guess it, low mobility.
Asher Jackson
Are you certain your ankles are the problem?
Do this test recommended by Greg Nuckols. Stand having a wall. Step forward with one foot so that your toes are touching the wall. Now, bend your knee forward to touch the wall without lifting your heel off the ground.
Move your foot backwards half an inch and touch the wall with your knee again. Use a ruler if you have one.
Continue making half inch steps back. If you can place 2 inches between the wall and your toes and touch the wall with your knee without raising your heel off the ground, then you have fully adequate ankle mobility for squatting.
Jonathan Price
Squat more
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Bentley Campbell
>how will working on mobility help my mobility
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Jace Campbell
I can't do it at 2"... barely got it at 1". How do I increase flexibility?
Isaiah Morales
You read the sticky.
Gabriel Watson
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Landon Adams
Oh fuck you and your dank quints