![]() ![]() ![]() I still see guys who break at the knees first and barely involve the hips at all. For raw squats (or high bar, Olympic-weightlifting squats) the limiting factor tends to be the quads, not the hips.īut even for raw squatters, box squats can be useful. And since you don’t need to hit rock bottom anyways (just parallel), you can take a wide stance, lean your hips back, and let the posterior chain do a lot of the work. But it’s not that box squats are bad, they just need to be used appropriately.īox squats, as everyone now knows, translates well to geared powerlifting since the squat suit helps a lot with the elastic rebound at the bottom of the hole. Later it seemed like there was a bit of a backlash against box squats from raw powerlifters, who found it really didn’t translate. Bands! Chains! Board presses! Dynamic effort days! Linear periodization is the devil! And of course, lots and lots of box squats. I remember back in the early-to-mid 2000s, it seemed like every powerlifter on the Internet was advocating some sort of Westside Barbell inspired approach. I think box squats are a really good example of how assistance exercises need to be chosen based on the goals and weaknesses of each individual lifter. ![]()
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