Squat Tips 👌🏼✨
Bar pad or no bar pad for barbell squats❓
✨I’d recommend ditching it. Using a bar pad for barbell squats can make the movement unstable, especially as you increase your weights! It also holds the weight about an inch off your back, which some people find is enough to shift your center of gravity, and thus may alter your form.
✨ The only time using a pad makes sense is if you’re new to squatting, using light weight and the bar feels totally under control, and the pad makes you feel more confident about squatting.
✨ If you feel pain from the barbell itself, it may be that you have it resting too high up on your neck.
Create a “shelf” with your back and traps instead! ✅
There are a few options as far as barbell placement:
• high-bar: position the barbell high on your back on your trap muscles and shoulders
• low-bar: position the barbell lower, just on top of your rear delts
Hope this helps 💙