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atg squats vs ROCK BOTTOM squats?

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Dreyth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVP0HG6GvDo
I've posted that video before. Anyway, that's what some people would consider a true atg squat.

HOWEVER, I can go like 2-3 inches lower than that. It's weird, after a certain point in my squat, I reach this threshhold where as soon as I pass a certain depth (which is the depth in that video), the squat LITERALLY gets twice as hard. And I mean I am ACTUALLY sitting on my calves and the hamstrings are compressing against my calves! Plus, I seem to lose a lot of balance and I realllllly have to grind the rep out if I reach this depth.

Is this the depth that olympic lifters squat to??? Or is it enough to just touch the calves and hamstrings for a lil bounce and go back up?

I call these rock bottoms squats just to distinguish the two. Does anyone else experience what I wrote up there?
The thing is, when I did rock bottom squats today, I did 295 x 5 4 2 (and failed the 3rd rep on the last set).
It was the first time I've ever failed a rep in squats in my life. A few weeks ago, I did 325x3x5 with the depth in that video up there.

The thing is this squatting has really killed my confidence a lot. I've dropped 30lbs in the work sets just doing it and it's just a 2-3 inch difference!!!

bball2020:
what olympic lifters squat to varies, since the squat is not actually part of their sport, although there still are some ccompeitions i believe

LBSS:
For one thing, oly lifters wear oly shoes, which tend to help with depth. Your depth is great in that video, why would you want to go lower?

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