** SQUAT ADVICE ** Its taken me a few years to notice this one, so hopefully itll save some other lifters a bit of time. If youve been low bar squatting for years, and you havent done at least 3 months of high bar squat work for every 9 months of low bar, youre probably MASSIVELY short changing yourself and your results. By focusing on high bar squatting for the next 3-6 months; > youll give your elbows, shoulders and lower back a break > youll improve quad and glute size and strength > your positions all the way thru the lift will be MASSIVELY improved > you can hammer your deadlift because your lower back will have much more recovery time > youll improve weaknesses you never knew you had > squatting becomes less stress because the high bar numbers are mentally less taxing than low bar > youll hit PR after PR coming off the back of it all I dare you to test your true olympic stance and depth high bar squat with no belt and compare it to your best low bar. Prepare to be absolutely humbled by the number. Sink it in low, test to technical breakdown (on high bar squatting that is depth as low as you can go, and no extreme forward good morning style lean on the way up) and program from there. Thank me in 6 months.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:06:47 +0000