Alright, everybody welcome back. I'm here with Aaron, who is the camera man back there at CrossFit Excel. Last week we talked about overhead squats and how a lot of times it's a positioning error in your midline, alright? So it's not a shoulder thing, but if they're not strong enough, then I suggest if it crunched blocks would be a good way to kind of get that midline stability and that strength.
through your midsection. So today we're going to talk about front squats and a good thing you can kind of do to establish and maintain that throughout this squat. So a lot of times in the front squat I'm just gonna do a couple of crown squats. One good key for that, people talking about elbows up in the bottom, right?
So go to the bottom and start. So if you're at the bottom to help your way out, pretend like there's ropes around your elbows, and it's pulling those up, that's a good way to lead your soft gun. You want to lead yourself out of the squat so you don't get bent over. So to keep that nice upright posture, elbows high.
Well I think even better way to do it, why wait for him to drop and then reestablish it right from the start. So when he's ready, before he squats, he can take a deep breath and then as he starts to descend, he's gonna crank those elbows just a touch. There we go. And he comes up.
So you see right before the ref starts, he just gives a little, little rise those elbows as he squats. And then he established that good position. Don't wait for it to crush you for a preemptive strike. Fight those elbows up before you start.
If you kind of struggle with this, one way to think about it is if there's a shelf here or if someone's standing with my hands here, if he started a squat, of course his elbow would come up, so his body's rising down, right? So he's establishing that good elbow positioning. One more. and elbows up as he starts his squat.
Get strong, stay strong. Thanks.
