High Bar VS Low Bar Squat

Mark Rippetoe

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[Moshe1010]

@dokokai Are you in shape? Search here in YouTube:

Coach Rip Squats 315x10

The guy is 50+ years old.

[jason44231]

@TheFitnessTutor The point is that he isn't supporting his case at all nor does he possess the petigree to speak from authority on Olympic lifting and he contradicts himself while he is talking. For example, Is the high bar squat recommended by Olympic lifters or is it a "controversy." Minimize back strain by doing something that increases back strain? Listen to what he is saying. He is giving apparently scientific or educated explanations, but the are riddled with contradiction an error.

[kowsow]

@kowsow Correction: to develop strength in the legs and hips. That is my understanding anyway. In the past, Rip has also suggest wearing weightlifting shoes with an elevated heel for deadlifting even though the greatest deadlifters of all-time wore/wear flat shoes. Google "Going Deeper into the Deadlift with Mark Rippetoe."

[fizzelator]

Unless you are a powerlifter use high bar squats...

[kowsow]

How many world record setting or olympic medal winning olympic weightlifters have attributed their success to Mark Rippetoe? The application for the back squat in olympic weightlifting is to assist with leg drive for the jerk. I'll listen to coach Boris, Wu, or Chen before Rip.

[UltimateYEC]

@kariido1 Who the Fuck's Boris. That's a pathetic attempt at a Strawman. How about you meet your own burden of proof. A bigot with a big mouth who calls people "pussies" for disagreeing with him says do low bar Squats. I'll take my advice from the experts thanks.

[SardonicFox1994]

rippetoe doesn't know what an ad hominem is so y should we trust him on what is good for squats?!

[kariido1]

@Btglow87 Thanks for a testimony from a seasoned lifter. If you could drop your name it would lend more credibility to your experience.

[kariido1]

@BigUriel So do front squats as assistance for your clean. They're the exact same movement as the receiving portion of the clean.

LB uses the stretch reflex, have you tried squatting LB and feeling how the stretch reflex is engaged?

I use a Pendlay Do-Win weightlifting shoe and I LB squat. It even helps and I wouldn't want to squat without them.

[kariido1]

@UltimateYEC So that's your argument. "Because somebody named Boris wants you to do HB squats, that's enough of an excuse? No, I'm sorry, it's not. I need your reasoning."

"A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law" - Mark Twain

[muzimuzi]

I'd guess that OLY lifters squat high bar -atg because of the ROM .. also i belive they pull more weigh with their body being more upright then powerlifters...then again they cant pull in a high-bar squat position so i dont kno!

[BigUriel]

High squats aren't as good for pulling off the floor but they're better for the front squat part of the clean. For pulling off the floor deadlifts and power cleans are better than low squats anyways, so low squats aren't of much use for oly lifting.

Also olympic lifting relies on explosiveness and stretch reflex which is typical of a high squat but not of a low squat, which is better for maximal (slow) strength.

Plus olympic lifts are done on heeled shoes, which don't agree with low squats.