Squat University- How to fix knee cave during the squat

powerlifting squat_university In this first video Aaron sent me, he’s squatting 435 lbs for 6 reps. As you can see, he shows a good amount of hip shift and knee cave. I told him to work on solidifying a more stable foundation by focusing on his feet. I like to teach athletes to grab the ground by jamming their big toe down and screwing their feet into the floor. He combined this cue with a few hip stability exercises like banded lateral walks, clam shells and hip thrusts and as you can see he was able to make great progress (no longer showing the same hip shift or collapse as before). However, while he cleaned up this issue he now started to show some different technique faults. When we viewed his 475 lb squat from the side you can see two issues. First his bar path forward out of that ideal alignment over the mid foot pushing himself off balance and leading to the 2nd fault of his hips rising too fast on the ascent (called the good morning or stripper squat fault). . After finding this was in part due to an ankle mobility restriction, the last two fixes to clean up his squat was to work on ankle mobility with some soft tissue work & stretching along with some 1-1/2 squats during his warm up to grove his coordination and balance before loading up the bar. . I’ll be checking in on Aaron’s progress 8 in the next few months and let you guys see how he does! Big shout out to @a_aronthepowerlifter for taking the time to fix these issue...trust the process, it will be worth it in the end