I think it just depends on what muscle you’re wanting to target more and if you have any preexisting injuries or weakness causing you to use the bar. IE: you really wanna hit those glutes and hams hard you should pull the bar lower and closer to your body to better mimic a back squat. You wanna hit quads hard and anterior focus raise the handles up. Plus if you have shoulder problems it may be better to keep everything pulled in tighter and lower rather than holding the handles higher. The bar is just the tool, how you use it depends on your individual needs.
100 % agree - Pulling back on the handle makes the weight go backwards mimicking a normal back squat. Back squats are easier than front squats. I've yet to see a youtube where the user raises the handle parallel to the ground to maximize the use of the SSB's camber. Until i came across this video.
@@MelbourneStrengthCulture I was hoping to see SSB users squat more vertically - like in a front squat stance but so many still lean forward quite a bit like in a high bar squat. I have a zercher harness and i have to squat very verticallly - almost straight up otherwise the bar will slide out of the holders. That's the form i was looking for to be able to do with a SSB. My thinking is that squating as vertical as possible uses more quads, less glutes.
@@MelbourneStrengthCultureit shows by your information in this video. You obviously don't understand what that bar is for. You never should lift the handles
Even with a low camber, there's always at least one benefit to SSB squats: less stress on your shoulders. Great if you're hard on them other days of the week :)
There's one of these at my gym. I'm going to try using it as a substitute for my normal LB squats as I've got some bad shoulder pain that I'm trying to rehab.
I agree with the Elite FTS method. The method here seems to defeat the purpose of the SS Bar in the first place. You should be able to do a SS squat without even holding the handles. Let the bar sit how it was made to sit. If you want to do a front squat then do front squats separately.
Exactly this guy said a bunch of 🐂💩. Literally everyone says leave the handles neutral where they sit naturally on your back or if you want to make it harder and tax the upper back more which is.the point of the ssb then pull the handles down. Lifting the handles totally defeats the purpose of the ssb
The iron edge SSB looks a bit industrial. Has it held up under heavy weights and heavy use after all this time ? I read in the exodus forum the user thought he noticed the bar was bent......not sure if it was a valid statement for the iron edge bar.
Exodus Forum? The bar has been great. We have a pretty strong gym, many powerlifters squatting 250kg+, and using this bar well over 200kg. Only issue is that when there are more than about 60kg per side you’re best to use competition collars and normal collars sometimes slip on the bars sleeve
What if you used the safety squat bar facing a different direction than you do in this video? (Where it puts the weight even more up and forwards) I tried this and it feels like it just taxes the upper back too much? Can you use the SSB in both directions or is it meant to be used in one way?
@@Kraxos most likely it’s because of where the bar sits.. in this case you can try only using one hand on the rack and one hand on the bar so can still control the position of the barbell with the active hand
@@MelbourneStrengthCulture i'll try and see ! if the problem keep going I'll drop a video. it's mostly for my tall athletes, but they used it just few times. So maybe it's just a little of familiarization with the new tool.
i have a ssb bar without camber like the one you explicit say not to buy and I wanna say this: ive made gains like never before after getting that bar. so I strongly disagree
No the bar was sitting on your neck. It shouldn't be. This bar wants to pull you forward that's the point of it so if it's sitting on your neck then your neck will be taking alot of the load. Move it down a bit. I used to make the same mistake
He gave useful info - said it replaced the muscle motion SSB, have been loading it up to 200kgs (which is huge) and they all like it - where's the filler ??
