What's up everybody? I'm Danny from The Lifting Fix. Today we've got a special guest, Zach Long, a doctor of physical therapy, helping me out a little bit. So I'm working with an athlete, his squad is very immature, really rough, and so there's a lot of things that need to be fixed, and so I reached out to an expert, and so I said, "Excuse me, can you help me out with this?
" And so he filmed the video, told me... what needs to happen and I'm going to go over that wiki now. So in the squat you can see there's a lot going on. There's a lot of things that he kind of needs some work on.
The heels come up a little bit, the shoulders a little bit rough, struggles to lock out overhead. There's kind of a lot of things here that can use tweaking. So what Dr. Physical Therapy, Zach Long suggested, you can see him.
Matt the barbell physio. Anyway, he suggested a few things. His biggest thing, biggest thing he wants to work on is anterior weight. So he said with this kind of a situation going on, these different things to go through, the one fix will make the biggest difference is actually break them all the way back down to a goblet squat by holding a or some sort of a weight, some object in front of him, that anterior weight will teach him to push his hips back a bit at the start which will allow him to drive through his full foot and keep those heels down.
That's the biggest bit there. I'm going to go ahead and send it over to again Zach Long from the Barbell Physio. He's going to demonstrate some of those. controlled descent and then actually he's going to hold the bottom just for a split second before coming.
An alternative to the plate hold is the goblet squat where we take a kettlebell or a dumbbell. hold it in front of the chest and squat down. Again, the anterior center of gravity movement that the kettlebell provides lets the athlete sit further back into the squat and reach better depth. Those are some golfing squats.
A good example of obviously holding that weight up, keeping the chest up and how it makes the hips come back just a touch and really has you push through your full foot. So sometimes the fit isn't what you want it to be. You would think a lot of times, especially in a barbell sport when someone is learning to snatch, you would want them to really kind of get in there and do something with the bar. But a lot of times the best way to fix somebody is actually break them all the way down to the one thing that makes the biggest difference and sometimes that means putting down the barbell and picking up the kettlebell.
Again, you can check out Zach Long, doctor of physical therapy at thebarbellphysio. com or on Instagram, thebarbellphysio.
