I’ll never understand what is so hard about teaching a walk out. This is the first time my son's expressed interest in squatting. Yes, he's been around the gym his entire life, and we’d let him play around in them. However, he now wants to learn a new skill and take it up a notch. Not a single plate will touch this bar until he can free squat with damn near perfect form. This was the first time he squatted with a bar on his back, and guess what’s going to be on point before all else? Yes, his walk out. It’s that important. Why so many “coaches” completely miss this is beyond me. It’s NOT hard to teach. The lack of teaching it - or any technique issue - is due to laziness and is a huge disservice to those who pay for powerlifting coaching. The standard has become to low.
As my other posts have stated, this isn’t intended to be negative in any way but is intended to educate those who pay for or will pay for coaching, so they will know what to look for and what to avoid.
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Let me add that if you don’t have a coach and don’t know I’m not talking about you. I’m talking about people who are paying people to help them and those people don’t address this with lifters they coach. It’s lazy, incompetent and can get their clients injured.
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