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I was wondering why I had never heard of this advice, and it's because I started lifting in a powerlifting focused circle so the advice was always hips back, we
by ehnto 4y ago
I was wondering why I had never heard of this advice, and it's because I started lifting in a powerlifting focused circle so the advice was always hips back, weight on the heel. We also only go past parallel in depth, we can get impressively deep but you don't tend to see that transitional moment where the body shape changes and weight shifts to get ATG. There is also no way I would want to be in that transitional phase with the amount of weight powerlifting asks of you, I think you'd be pretty compromised with the low bar squat.
I have never had trouble with my knees using powerlifting technique. My first injury was actually when I tried to transition into a general strength focus and started doing highbar squats, it was probably just my lack of experience with highbar and an overconfidence from my previous lifting lowbar, but I tweaked my back. It took over a year to recover fully.