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I'm sure there have been countless topics on this in the past, but I couldn't see any recent ones, so apologies if I'm being repetitive. I'm getting beaten by butt wink. When I first started squatting I was a bit of a natural. I could get good depth without my lower back rounding and the first time I tested my 1RM, only a couple of months into lifting, it was more than my bodyweight (with good form). So I got complacent, took my eye off the ball and stopped recording my squats (I work out alone). Several months later I decided to record myself, and found that I had developed a case of butt wink. Now I can't seem to get rid of it. I know a lot of people say that butt wink is due to tight hamstrings, but my hamstrings were much tighter when I first started lifting and I do a lot more mobility work now than I used to. In fact, I er... never used to do any mobility work. The only possible cause that springs to mind is seeing an osteopath several months ago, who realigned my hips. I'm pretty sure he didn't screw me up, because he also managed to fix a dippy shoulder that had been plaguing me for years - in one session. Could this be the cause? If it is, what can I do to adjust to my newly aligned hips? Any other tips? I'm desperate to add weight onto my squat but I don't want to end up with a slipped disc.

Fellow rebels I got problem. Yes I do. I try to do squats just like Mark Ripetoe is advicing. You know: weight on your heels, legs going outside align with feets, first bend at hips, don't check her or her roundie shapes while squating, etc. But my problem is, that when I go beyond parralel my pelvis rounds and my lower back rounds. I got butt wink. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Thanks to Athena, I checked some yt videos and found out, that one of ways to fix it, is to bend first at your knees and let them go past the toes. I tried it, and actually it works a bit, my butt wink is minimum. But on the other hand I feel it is much more demanding for my knees - they are poping and cracking at the bottom (no pain though - just weird feeling). I also read something about hip flexors but still I need more info. I also noticed that when I go only to parrarel - my back dont round and my knees feel better. But I wanna go lower than that cause I read that this is bad for your knees. So my question is as follows: What should be my priority while thinking about avoiding injury? Dont rounding my back aka avoiding butt wink? Dont letting my knees go past my toes? Not going beyond parrarel while keeping my knees not past my toes = avoiding butt wink but what about knees injury then? ???? - any other option that is better than those above? Maybe this is flexibilty problem? Or core strength problem? Or those hip flexors issue? Any advice would be appreciated plus maybe some good links to other exercises I should be performing to help with my technique?