How To Squat: Low Bar 

Remember to switch sides between sides to prevent imbalances

This is joke, no doubt, or crazy.

This is gold haha

Good to cover your bases.

Genius

Really cracked me up :D

A mark of an honest man.

He was independent when he made his old video. He's now a certified starting strength coach. Connect the dots.

the information from older vids has slightly different goals, and benefits, the starting strength style of squat has so me great benefits, and some negatives, (like any squat, or movement that emphasizes certain benefits, enhances certain spectrums of performance etc.,), On a side note starting strength can be extremely dogmatic lol

Unfortunately it rather feels like he was indoctrinated.

doryfishie2 And? He obviously agrees with the method SS uses; why wouldn't he update a video to reflect new knowledge?

Would of been amusing if the rock had bounced back onto Alan foot lol

the other squat vid he had about depth was hilarious

Your face is flawless

I laughed out loud.

@@RokkitAk my man

Kanreol how did that work for you 2 years later

Kraken he probably quit lifting and got fat

Update: he ded

Well I don't know if anyone is interested, but I've switched from high bar to low bar almost 1 year ago after seeing this video too. My problem tho was the fact that I just couldn't stay anymore upright as the weight got heavier and my hip flexors felt always so tight on the high bar squat. So after my switch I was able to keep my back more upright as you already starting in a kinda slight-bend position and my hipflexor felt way better. In the beginning I had to get used to the bar placement in my back but you will get slowly used to it.

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D B gotta note that if you do this you have to change your bar position to keep bar over mid foot.

D B talking about the original post that there will be a difference between the two as no one never mentioned high bar or low bar

D B hahah no problem man

Aww heck I dun run outa deck

Gabriel Ramos true

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wimpymind n and such beautiful hand writing

You call that skills?! Where are the boobs on the female stick figure?

Shosanna Dreyfus Too many chest presses.

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Lol.Must be "to confuse the muscles", bwahahahah

Brandon Dennis Other way around. He uses low bar placement and highbar depth/verticalness

Brandon Dennis True he did mention that. However doing lowbar technique with highbar is bad for your back.

Most people do without even knowing it. They bend over at the bottom and drive their hips up. It's more productive to work with this natural motion than trying to counter it by staying vertical. Another point why low bar might be better than high bar.

@@rustyblade9366 That'd be a good morning squat, it must be corrected.

Haha, the illustrations are witty and entertaining

Jacob Flowers when is the flat earth joke

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Shawn Thompson strength =/= muscularity

I understand a flat earth joke, but surely he does not have to mock God in the process

Haha, he's good sht.

Da BigCheese Thicc*

Flat Earth psyop!

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Tim Fitzgerald Gym bros squat, but they high bar and quarter squat.

Tim Fitzgerald Best comment we're gonna see on this vid. Hope Alan sees it.

Christian Torres that's why Jesus came down, who is also Alan thrall. He came to educate them, for they knew not what they had done

Tim Fitzgerald But they do know what they've done and refuse to accept the knowledge of Jesus! They choose to quarter squat 315, instead of receiving the wisdom from Jesus Christ.

Christian Torres Then on judgement day, he will say "depart from me, I never knew you, wicked men who lift heavy weights for the attention of others". But he knows their hearts, for they have sinned

same here

QQyoko high bar 4 life

I tried lowbar and the bar pierces through my skin causing pain. High bar feels much more comfortable.

QQyoko same here, I don't really agree with what's being said here particularly that which relates to ATG squats but what the heck that beard is alpha as fuck

Yeah, I find it difficult to watch his videos since his move to starting strength philosophies. It is like when somebody claims to have found religion and completely changes, and does things in pretty much the opposite of how they used to. There are plenty of Riptoe and his crews videos out there, we don't really need more SS based squat videos. But hope it works out for Alan, will be interesting to see the impact this style has on his Strongman stuff.

Damn!

LOL... touche! :)

Underdog Strength hahaha!!!!

Underdog Strength bahahahaha

logged in to like this :)

denmyos no it's HIP DRAAHHHVVVE

May I introduce you to CanditoHQ and his hybrid squat video.

I think hip structure affects hybrid squatting. I tried that as I'm all legs/limbs at my giant height but my hips didn't enjoy it.

Joe Bill I will certainly try this

Hip structure affects all squatting. More hip dominate squats like low bar will likely disagree with you. If you are all legs though like me, Front squats and HB back squats are bother the knees at times too. That is why finding the inbetween tend to be the best fit for most people.

he said it might cause problems not that it will

MuEnViFitness oh my bad 😧

You're right to point this discrepancy out. For beginners doing low bar squat, it's good advice not to let your knees go forward. But it's not really because of injury, it's because that's how you get the correct hip drive. If you have healthy patellar tendons and quads, and otherwise have good squat form, you are not likely to have problems due to forward knee travel. In fact, forward knees can be desirable if you are trying to develop your quads--for example for Olympic weightlifters. For some reason SS approach to squats is all about minimizing quad involvement.

But are you certainly sure he's never had knee problems? You train with him? (serious question). It the video's context, it increases the probability of knee problems. Not that it will for sure. But why risk that?

When you do hear about injuries from Olympic lifters, it's usually not the squat that's doing it. It's the sudden impact from catching cleans and jerks that really gets you. FWIW I had a patellar tendon graft for my ACL surgery, meaning I had 1/3 of my tendon removed (much of it has grown back since then, but it's not what it used to be). ATG squats don't bother it, even front squats with a lot of forward knee travel. So claiming that these exercises put your knee at risk seems really alarmist. On the other hand, jerks--both the dip and the catch--can sometimes bother my patellar tendon. Clarence Kennedy had a patellar tendon injury and wrote quite a bit about it here, and I think it's consistent with my experience as well: www.allthingsgym.com/clarence-kennedy-interview-2015/ A few quotes: "Back Squats actually put the least amount of strain on my knees and helped a lot with rehab." (he squats ATG of course) "I have to avoid doing power variations and Jerks as its at this angle of the squat that hurts the most. I completely dropped doing Power Cleans...The dip of the Jerk is the most painful movement for my knees"

Yes. If you ask to Rippetoe or maybe even Alan they may say to you "go with the low bar squat". But that's absurd. Just watch any oly lifter's training, they always do high bar.

Why is that absurd? Because, appeal to authority? I know the reasons you think of, but that doesen't really apply.

My question was focused more on depth of squat for oly lifting. It's my assumption that I'll have to front squat or high bar squat to build leg strength. I'll have to get ATG since I have to get comfortable with using strength at the bottom of the hole when I catch a clean or snatch. I was wondering if that's true from Alan since he's competed at a WL comp.

neither the front squat nor the HB squat build anything the LB squat doesn't! Rippetoes approach is that you do the olympic lifts and front squats in a such a high frequency, that the potential carryover from a HB squat is negliglible and thus the squat should remain a strength, not a skill movement. The LB squat to parallel is the most efficient way to build overall legstrength. The positions and skills get practiced enough when you Clean, snatch, overhead- and frontsquat. So you don't have to HB-squat and definately not ATG. but if you don't do it, your OLY buddys will point their finger at you. Alan would tell you no different.

>neither the front squat nor the HB squat build anything the LB squat doesn't! This is false as most people (including myself) who has done both HB and LB could tell you. FS, HBBS, LBBS use your muscles in different ratios, with HBBS being the most balanced (for most people) between quads and posterior chain. When I started olys after years of LB squats, my FS was about 70% of HBBS, which is a terrible ratio. I've been steady at 85% now, which shows just how much my quads were lagging from doing LB squats exclusively. Keep in mind many Olympic lifters have done SS or competed in powerlifting, meaning they have serious experience with LB squats. If LB actually worked better than HB they would know it. Whereas Rippetoe was only a beggining level Olympic lifter himself, so it's pretty annoying when he goes around claiming elite weightlifters are doing it wrong. LB squat is a perfectly fine exercise, and it's generally the best for powerlifting, but it has its tradeoffs. A HB squat is generally going to do a better job providing strength where you need it for Olys.

The problem is , is that some people do think this is the only way, due to starting strength's dogmatic attitude, I love and agree with many/ most of rippetoes ideas for lifting/ lifters, but that doesn't mean that they are the most effective for everyone, and that's what starting strength and its followers sometimes state, that it is the most effective way for everyone