Jul 6 in Training
Rippetoe on squats for Oly lifting
Thought I’d leave this here for everyone, especially thought would like this. Probably the most lucid argument I’ve ever seen Rip make (and I’m a huge Rip apologist).
“I’ll go out on a limb here and say that Olympic lifters should probably learn to back squat with a low bar position, since it allows the use of heavier weights. After all, why do Olympic lifters do the back squat? It is not a contested lift. The front squat is another exercise anyway. The vertical back angle of the Olympic squat is not reproduced in the pull of either the snatch or the clean. It’s like trying to make the back squat into a slightly different version of the front squat. But that misses the point of the back squat. Olympic lifters squat to get their hips, legs, trunk, and back strong, like everybody else does.”
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Rippetoe on squats for Oly lifting
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