Squat Depth & Variation for Olympic Weightlifting

If you can sit lower without losing proper back extension or shifting out of balance, you’re not at full depth.

Understand that this is specific to Olympic weightlifting—I’m not suggesting everyone who squats for any reason needs to always get to this depth.

But if you’re a weightlifter who wants to maximize your potential, strength and stability in maximal squat depth means snatching and cleaning the most weight possible.

And for that, you have to train that depth consistently (not necessarily with every squat you do).

You can find videos on my website (and here if you have the patience) on how to find your optimal stance, and the mobility part of it is its own extensive topic I’ve addressed in pieces over the years.

The main takeaway—there is no actual joint angle or similar standard for “full depth”—the only way to measure it as how I’ve described it here.

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