#1 Muscle You Need to Fix In Order to Improve Your Overhead Squat

This number one muscle is called the hip flexors. These are the muscles that comprise the front of your hip and thigh. When they are shortened or tightened, they will have a big effect on your squat.

#1 - Shifts weight on your toes

If you have tight hip flexors, your hip flexors will shorten up and they will shift your weight more forward and more on to your toes. This shifting on to your mid foot and toes puts greater stress on the knees. So if the hip flexors are loosened up, you are able to put more weight on your mid-foot and heel which allows your bigger muscles like the hamstrings and glutes to help you out when squatting.

#2 - Squat depth

Your hip flexors affect how deep you can go when squatting. If you are not able to go very deep when performing a squat, you are relying more on your quadriceps which put greater stress on your knees. If you can get deeper in your squat, then you are able to use your glutes and your hamstrings to get you out of the squat position.

#3 - Tilts the pelvis forward

If your hip flexors are tightening up, it tilts your pelvis forward. The tilting of the pelvis forward decreases the room for hip flexion. This will affect how far deep you can squat because you might get pinching or the amount of range of motion that you can do in your squat is affected.

So there you go! If you have any issues when squatting, take a look your hip flexors and check out the three reasons why those tight hip flexors can affect your squat.

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Keep training hard,

Mike Westerdal
CriticalBench.com