Chad Wesley Smith shares his favorite movements to address different weak points and improve the Squat. Try the JuggernautAI App for 2 Weeks FREE: www.juggernautai.app/
On the back raises, souldn't spine flexion/extension (especially lumbar) better complement most programs? Given there will be deadlifts and other stuff hitting the glutes and hams aplenty.
You could do high bar with lifting straps wrapped around the bar and held in front mimicking the placement of the hands during and SSB skwat if you're doing it to save your shoulders
My hips certainly rise faster than the rest of my body. I don't have access to a belt squat. What could I do instead? Could I hold a really heavy dumbbell between my legs and do a squat with my feet elevated on blocks?
Do you think a safety squat bar could be used by someone missing one of their foremans? I've been using this machine that mimics a front squat called the magnum perfect squat over a month, but I'd rather switch to a free weight squat if possible. I have a few inches of bone that I can move around off the elbow on the arm with the missing foreman.
@@vienna0810 usually the worker with the most experience or training, will lead the collective group of workers to a common goal on work completion and safety
You should really watch Candito's video on his belt squat attachment for his squat rack. Its plate loaded, requires no extra space and is cost effective and attachs onto your squat rack you should look into it.
I keep getting stuck in the hole. Due to long femurs I have to low bar and I’ve watched so many videos on elbow pain ( my back is developed, I can do 5 points of contact, prone swimmers etc) but no matter what I do I end up using shoulder extension with weight on my wrist. Wish I could squat like the quad father but it’s just not happening ( even tho I do high bar with squat shoes occasionally)
Powerlifting videos need to come with a disclaimer that it is for the sport not for joe bloggs. A wide stance is allowing for hams/glutes to assist, not long a quad dominant squat which most people are after. This really confused me for years and was doing it all wrong.
@@Jk-zv6tz huh? I’d consider myself an intermediate trainee and I still believe squatting more for beginners and most of intermediates is the best way to improve your squat, once you become an elite lifter of course that may not be the case
@@fourtii8707don't get me wrong, when someone already squatting 2x-7x times with 20+ Sets per week. "Squatting more" or increasing volume wont be the key to that. What i wanted to say is, the best way to improve your Squat is to do so!
The reason why Americans can’t squat is Lifestyle. Americans love their cars. Americans have almost no internal rotation. Same thing with day jobs. The internal rotator stretches you see on YT are garbage. Fixing your rotators vs ligament or flesh stretches are lmao 2 different things. The 90 90 is the only effective stretch but it’s terrible as most won’t even be able to get in it.
Hip internal rotation got better for me by getting my ribs down better when I do leg workouts and also simply making the glute medius stronger. I tried stretching and it did nothing.
I do a ton of Bulgarian split squats and totally agree about the carryover. But I also agree with the criticism of unilateral movement that they’re extremely inefficient from an energy standpoint. It feels like twice as many hard sets.
The major benefit of the belt squat is taking the back out of the movement. It allows you to train the movement indirectly without taxing the lower back. The split squats are a great movement for improving leg, glutes and back. But it can be a bit taxing when combined with other accessories and assistance movement. I'm currently using them in my hypertrophy phase along with tempo squats.
@@flabio7074 yea def man,they are real hard and can be taxing alot, btw how do u do them with 2 dumbbells or,maybe barbell too,i switched from 2 dumbbells to having one doing it now same way chad wesley showed in one vid w 1 db inside leg
