Mark Ottobre shows a counterbalance squat drill to fix butt wink, the excessive lower back rounding that happens in deep squats. Lock your arms out, splay your knees, engage your hips, and brace hard. Do this before regular squats.
All right, so you are breaking down, and people look at that and they go, well, there's no problem with it. Well, there is. He has a butt wink, a few things going on. So Dunkey, what I'm going to get you to do is grab this. We call this the counterbalance squat. So lock your arms out, and I'll get you to do the same thing, and just bring those arms down a little bit lower. Let's not cheat. And look at that, all of a sudden there's no butt wink. So why is that, right? We want to do these nice and slow, and you're splaying out your knees beautifully, working those hips. Do 3 more for me. We have to switch on our abs in this position. Your abs have to be on, which means it stabilizes your trunk, which that then eliminates our butt wink. So this is your warm-up. This is— you do it before you do a squat. You got to be counterbalancing squats. If you've enjoyed this tip, make sure you follow Mark Ottobre for more.
