When barbell training a beginning youth, in the back squat, how deep should you let them go? Nathaniel has never squatted a barbell before. After months of body weight squats we decided it was time to put a barbell on his back and let him go as deep as his lower back and hamstrings would let him. One thing I look for is the butt wink in the bottom position of the squat. Can you spot the butt wink in the video?
The barbell load easily exposed the weak point. We see a slight rounding of the erector muscles in the essentric movement (at the very bottom of the squat) as well as the left hip rising first in the concentric movement.
https://youtu.be/FL9FsPI6s6U
It is the point just above the butt wink where I will now have the client squat. In time the hamstrings will allow for deeper squats without the risk to the low back.
