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Daily Mobility Exercises by Dr. Kelly Starrett › Forums › General › Shoulder Position in the Front Squat
Brand spanking new user here, currently working my way through Supple Leopard as well as the massive amount of info on this site, so if my question has already been answered in either the book or in any of the videos of the site I´m sorry, just slap me with a link or referance….. =)
Here are episodes that hit on the front rack archetype
Pro Episode # 41 – The Front Rack Archetype, Torque Demands, and Principled Movement
Building a Better Front Rack: Shoulder and Trunk Stability Relationship
Episode 41: Improving Shoulder Organization & 3 min Challenge
Episode 304: Improving the Front Rack
Thanks alot for the video links!
I´m with you on creating torque first and external rotation… I think.. =)
However, I´m still a bit unsure about the shoulders protracting or retracting. As I said when i retract even though the torque and rotation stuff is taken care of, I still seem to be unable to hold the bar up.
The only way is if I protract, but if I understand it right, this seems to be a bad idea. It kind of looks like the position Kelly talks about in Episode 41 at 2:29
Peter,
When you say yo can’t hold the bar in place when you set your shoulder, what exactly do you mean?
Where does the bar go when you try to squat?
How are you holding it? Fingers or with arms crossed?
Arms straight out like one of the front rack progressions or fingers (clean grip). Again if I protract my shoulders I can hold it but retracting I feel i loose the base on which the bar rests so it falls out in front of me.
Do you understand what needs to happen for a stable front rack position?
Are you able to replicate what is needed for a stable front rack position?
It sounds more like a motor learning problem.
There is a section in Becoming A Supple Leopard about the front rack archetype.
This is the stable position.
What restrictions do you have that aren’t allowing you to hold the bar when retracting?
play around with grip width. It might be that your grip is too narrow??? this makes it ‘more difficult’ to ‘keep the elbows up’ as your elbow isn’t in a stable position. It will also allow you to get full lateral rotation of the shoulder and keep the wrist in a comfortable position (by the way – how is your wrist / finger mobility?)
Once in this position it’s actually difficult to ‘drop’ the elbows performing a front rack squat.
It´s not really an issue of elbows dropping. It´s more that if i retract my shoulders, I lose “the shelf” upon which the bar rests. When retracting my shoulder the bar will be resting on the upper part of my humerus instead of the deltoid and thus, I can´t support the bar.
I can however, when I protract my shoulders. But from what I understand this is an unstable shoulder position for front squatting?
Wrist/finger mobility is good, I tried both wide and narrow grip.
Thanks!
Hey Peter,
Everyone did in fact provide great advice on the front rack, but this was exactly what I meant! I´ll look into the posterior delt issue. I have also been wondering if it´s because I have long forearms in relation to the upper arm? Protracting kind of “artificially lenghtens” my upper arm, if that makes any sense? But then again, I´ll look into the posterior delts first and see if some work there might make things easier. And mind the torque first…… =)
Thanks!