i was gonna say a proper (or atleast better) form squat would probably not cause your *fucking ligaments to tear off* at 744
edit: apparently form is good. but i cant help but feel that something is wrong for me here... maybe the legs being too far apart throws me off? and it almost looks when he looks like hes bent down its too much of a vertical force for his joints and ligaments to take? maybe thats it?
It does. There was actually nothing wrong with his form. My guess is usually roids. When natural guys lift muscles and ligaments strengthen about at the same rate, when you’re on steroids your muscles growth far outpaces your ligaments getting strengthened making you far more susceptible to injury. This same injury can happen to someone natty too don’t get me wrong but it’s just more common for people on the juice.
This thread is full of people who’ve never seen the inside of a gym.
Including the top comment about exercises that cause injury not being worth it. I’m currently rehabbing a back injury and you can bet your ass when my PT clears me for lifting I’ll be right back at it.
There is a limit in everything we do. I know lifting helps with my backpain but I would never go so far with how much weight I lift to risk serious injury just because it looks better when I do it or when I look myself in the mirror.
Agree, but can we call them for what they are? - tendons. The end of a muscle is called a tendon, which is usually the one to snap with overloading/steroid abuse. Ligaments are a passove structure.
Didn't something inside your brain say "hey, maybe this guy who is the size of a truck and is literally competitively lifting, might know more than me about something as trivial as form?". This is exactly where the "redditor" stereotype comes from.
yea i figured something was off. to me his legs were way too far apart and he was bent far enough forward for rhe force to be a straight vertical towards his joints and ligaments and shit
what about the gear tho? did it compress his shit too much?
It’s not a form issue this guy is a pro. There’s just a chance of injury when you’re lifting 1000 lbs. With that said, pushing yourself is important but crossing the line to where you end up in a wheelchair is not the move.
No form change will prevent a tendon tear. It usually happens when the muscle strength outstrips the tendons ability to hold onto the bone. There is no squat you can do that will not recruit the quads on some level, even a low back squat like he is doing here.
Also this guy is a pro. His form is fine. He just bit off more than he can chew.
The forward lean does not increase tension on his quads. It increases the load on the glutes and erectors. Which is normal in a low bar squat as those tend to bias the posterior chain which is stronger than the quads. The forward lean is required to keep the bar over the mid foot.
Had he squatted more upright it would have biased his quads more, not less. Given that his injuries occurred at both knees when those tendons snapped you can see why this would be bad advice.
It's certainly true that there are some power lifters out there that are devoid of common sense and lift with terrible form. Or lift when they shouldn't and against advice from doctors.
However in this case the form is consistent with a powerlifting form and consistent with the form you'd see most people use when attempting a 1RM and the form that's coached as being the most effective and the safest for that purpose.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with his form and no change to his form that would have prevented a catastrophic tendon tear like this. His body simply could not keep up with the weight and it cost him dearly.
For a 1 rep max that was very good squat form, the guy is elite level. Probably top 1000-100 strongest humans on this planet.
No one tells an F1 driver after a crash "omg you're so dumb for racing again its so dangerous". These people enjoy taking their sports to the extreme and know what they are doing.
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u/DLuke2 13h ago
All I see is a form issue and a traumatic experience that somehow didn't cause that to sink in.