Squat form

Haven't seen the old one yet. Video?

When doing a squat make sure that your knees don't go over your toes and that you keep your weight in your heels. It should feel like you're trying to sit not crouch and you can practice by putting a chair behind you and focusing on your knee position, that way you have the chair to fall back on if you lose balance. Your upper body should stay strong with your core engaged and chest out proudly so you're not bending over but staying completely upright. One way to help is to hold a dumbbell vertically against your chest and try to keep it where the bottom stays against your body or close to it. Hope that helps!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1146855-form-critique-thread-post-your-videos-here

Examine what's there, many links to training videos, ect.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/852401-proper-form-and-technique-sources

When doing a squat make sure that your knees don't go over your toes and that you keep your weight in your heels. It should feel like you're trying to sit not crouch and you can practice by putting a chair behind you and focusing on your knee position, that way you have the chair to fall back on if you lose balance. Your upper body should stay strong with your core engaged and chest out proudly so you're not bending over but staying completely upright. One way to help is to hold a dumbbell vertically against your chest and try to keep it where the bottom stays against your body or close to it. Hope that helps!

the no knees past the toes this is something that isnt going to be true for people with long legs. knees past toes for those people is pretty much par for the course.

same goes with back being completely upright. for people with short torsos and long legs tring to keep the back completely upright when you're in the hole would require some sort of hyperextension

And to further prove the point, here is a very famous diagram and all 3 methods show the knees over the toes.

Hmm, interesting. In olympic lifting, our knees go out over our toes on a regular basis. For reference, I learned the basics of olympic lifting at a weightlifting center coached by two former national champions/members of the US Olympic team in weightlifting and USA-W certified coaches, not at regular Crossfit. I've only been doing it for about 9 months, but knees over the toes is pretty much a normal occurrence among oly peeps.

I have always had a problem getting my squat form right.

All the advice above is very good! The best tip I got was to make sure your knees don't go over your toes and to "push" your knees outward. I don't know how to explain it really, but don't let your knees cave in toward the body.

I've always felt like my knees went out too far even though my form looks good in video, and don't have nearly as much knee pain and noise as before I started lifting. Good to know it may not as much of an issue as once thought.