Show us a rear glute spread

How would the quads have any influence over hip vs shoulder height? If your hips rise faster than your shoulders it's either because your glutes and hams are unable to maintain an upright pelvis or your erector spinae are unable to maintain an upright spine, or both.

fking LOL'd



I'm able to maintain it. the lift just becomes much harder.

possibly due to my body putting itself into a more advantageous position due to muscle imbalances? I haven't trained quads in probably a year now, and I've been pulling sumo, and doing low bar squats 2-3x a week.

This post was edited by turtol on Mar 2 2016 08:00pm

It has nothing to do with quadriceps weakness. For whatever reason your posterior chain is failing to maintain your upright position while your quads begin to extend your knees. Could be lack of strength but it's much more likely that you just forget how to squat properly