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There's no front or back angle, so I can't be sure, but I think you need to focus more on keeping your knees out. The way they shoot forward when you hit the bottom position is what is giving me that feeling, your hips just need some more space to get that deep.

Another thing that isn't necessarily an improvement, but may help you squat heavier is to think about squatting with your hips. Yours is looking quite close to what Rippetoe would call a "standing leg press" at the moment. It looks like you start the movement with the knees, instead of with the hips.

Looking pretty damn solid overall, though. Pretty much all my criticisms don't apply if you are doing high bar.

Yo, figured I should make a return here at some point, might as well make it a question.

I've been interested in getting into 400m running. Actually, I guess that's not quite what I mean. Rather, I've recently felt like getting both faster and fitter, and figure that the 400m is the best all-round metric for to measure both of those facets simultaneously.

So I've been reading a bunch about how people train for the 400m, and it is more complicated and overwhelming than even I'm used to in regards to training methods. There's special endurance, speed endurance 1, speed endurance 1, MaxV, accel, yada yada yada. All that is clearly far beyond what I need right now, given that I suck at 400m. So, what I'm asking is what are the basic things you recommend for a person at a fairly regular level of fitness to start improving his 400m time while not forgoing continued strength gains?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaCOHT0pmI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaCOHT0pmI</a>

That site needs a major redesign and readability isn't working. Will attempt to read despite eye pain.

That was the most intense thing I have ever seen. Those guys were working so hard. Damn!

I notice you bounce a little in the bottom of your squat before really going for the concentric. Do you think that that maybe negates a bit of what makes paused squats so effective?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpzBEVo-tE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpzBEVo-tE</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmzeS7Hq1A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmzeS7Hq1A</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=str_qfbkpa0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=str_qfbkpa0</a>

Note the props to Adarq in the last video's description.