So I know none of these reps are perfect, and even I can clearly see some bad chest drive in some. I was trying to correct the issue where I was driving with the hips and then chest in two separate steps. My main goal was keeping the back angle consistent and maintaining hip drive.
Not sure if I've achieved that in any of these reps?
This was set 2 and 3 of 72.5kg
I included my warm up set of 60kg for reference and to see if this is closer to how the squat should look? Because I am actively trying to improve the hip drive after watching all the videos etc but when I try the "chest to the floor" queue with 72.5kg, it feels absolutely horrible in the lower back (just all over really) and obviously the chest has to come up at some point. But for some reason it seems to be a rough transition from hips up --> pause -->chest up on some of these reps. Other reps, it's clear even to me there was limited hip drive and I moved over to using the legs more. I felt that even when lifting and I remember I just felt too weak and I almost automatically ended up doing this - I think this is more clear in the final set of 3 (3x5 75.5)
The warm up with 60 felt mostly ok from what I remember. First 1x5 was ok ish but felt like I had to grind them out. The final 3x5 was disgusting completely, nothing felt good and even walked away with a mild shooting/numbness from my shoulder through the arm after that, seems ok now.
For clarity I didn't record set 2x5.