I need some advice!

[Northsouth]

I've been doing Stronglifts for about 4 months now. I am 6'0 and about 150lbs. Although I have gained hardly any weight due to being lazy about eating enough, I have been getting much stronger. The furthest I have gotten on my squat is 185lbs, but on Friday I worked out after not having done so in a week and I reduced the weight by 10% to work on improving my form. Due mostly to my awful hip mobility, my lower back rounds quite a bit when I go deep, and I also realized that I've been doing the Good Morning motion with my back on the way up as well. This time I kept my back straight the whole way down, and my lower back did not round, but that is because I did not go as low as I could. Doing these lower weight squats was surprisingly hard because I wasn't cheating like I normally do.

My question is, should I reduce the weight further in order to "re-learn" my technique and allow my hip mobility time to improve? I feel as if I may stall soon even with the lighter weight, which will make it more difficult to get the movement right.

[22Alpha]

I firmly believe in form over weight. However, I'm new to training as well, so don't take what I say as the biblical truth.

[itsbruce]

You can't progress safely without good form and it's hard to correct technique at maximum weight, particularly if you've been "cheating" to get there.

[Pseudonym]

Trying to fix your form with unchallenging weight seems nonsense to me unless you're literally just learning the movement, so only use a (significantly) lower weight if you feel you absolutely cannot get form with heavier. You need get yourself to learn how to do the move with reasonably heavy weight otherwise when you eventually work back up to where you were, you will just have the same problem again.