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Bigshot89
Bigshot89 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
When doing squats should I be feeling it in my back the next day?

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  • VeggieBarbells
    VeggieBarbells Posts: 175 Member
    edited December 2016
    This may help, I'm sure you'll get plenty of good advice on this subject.

    https://youtu.be/yWRkBH_q_Ag
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    No.

    Start with light or no weight and use a spotter to determine form.

    If you're feeling it in your back you're hinging not squatting and hinge is deadlift.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    It depends entirely on how you squat and where in your back you are feeling it.

    You do use the posterior chain in a squat, more so in a low bar squat since you'll tend to have greater forward pitch of the torso.

  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    depends what 'feeling it' means. my muscles feel it sometimes, since it takes a lot of strength to keep your entire back nice and tight in a squat. but if my joints are feeling it, then i assume that i did something wrong.
  • Bigshot89
    Bigshot89 Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks guys for your advice!
  • Danny_Boy13
    Danny_Boy13 Posts: 2,094 Member
    Depends on bar placement IMO. For me if I am resting the bar in a low bar position I seem to feel it in the back. The squat is a total body lift... meaning the entire body is working... everything from shoulders, arms, back, legs, glutes... everything. So if you are on a relatively intense load I would think you would feel it.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    A low bar squat works the Posterior (aka the backside muscles including the back) more than a high bar squat. A high bar squat works the back but to a lesser extent, and is more quad dominate.

    I personally prefer low bar squats because most people (myself included) can squat more weight than a high bar squat, being the posterior muscles are the real "movers" in the body.
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