My leg pinches in to my hip when squatting
I'm doing barbell squats as described in Starting Strength.
When I get to a certain depth, I feel my thigh bone (femur?) pinching up against the inside of my pelvis, and feel like I can't go any deeper. Is my form wrong? Do I stop there? Or do I somehow go deeper?
Note that I didn't feel these before, and was going very deep. But observers told me (correctly I believe) that my knees would go forward too much, or that my hips were going up and down, not back and out. Fixing that (now my squat looks like right) has caused this pinch.
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Push your knees out. Without a proper video form check it's impossible to really diagnose what's going on, but it may be that your knees are collapsing in and thereby impinging your hip.
You need to go as deep as the book describes, which is defined objectively and specifically as when the crease of your hip is lower than the top of your knee, as in the left-side figure here:
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