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brandell
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The Gym I am at has one. Was going to see what the General thoughts on using the safety squat bar are.
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jsully
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I wish my gym had a SSB. If they weren't $300+ I'd already have one for my house. Love the SSB/yoke bar. The weight positioning pushes you forward so you've got to have a strong back to stay up and stable. This will give you said strong back. There's a reason the westside 1000+ lb squatters regularly use the SSB. ;)
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C. Smith
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SSB is fine.
lol, everyone in gear "squats" 1000lbs now, nothing special there. |
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jsully
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I've squatted with the SSB a handful of times at a friends garage gym.. I'm a fan. SSB GMs are solid too.
Craig, you seemed to like the cambered bar a good bit last year. Was that mainly due to your elbow or did you just like squatting with it? Any pros or cons?
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C. Smith
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It was solely due to my elbow, but I liked the bar a lot, until I got in the 90%+ range. The way it behaves can be rough at heavier weights (probably fatigue too), and I tweaked my back something ferocious one session. I will use it still, but stay in the <90% range.
I also like the cambered bar much, much more than I like the ssb. |
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brandell
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I think I am gonna give it a try next week.
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rob meulenberg
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Of course you do...the SSB bar is evil. With that said, it has its place, just like the giant cambered bar. For throwers, I am not as sure how much both bars would have their place, except maybe for injuries like you have encountered that make traditional squats impossible. (but then again, we do not train like throwers) But it terms of rotating exercises/bars for changes in leverage and weak point training, the specialty bars are invaluable. I also love to do chain suspended GMs with the SSB, but they are crazy hard. Be prepared for your squat numbers to take a nose dive. Like Jake said, the bar changes your leverages significantly and can really throw you forward. |
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brandell
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I am just training to throw better, not olympic lift or do power lifting so what my 'squat numbers' are really doesn't matter. if I can throw 85' with the 28 and 18' with the 42 WOB and 'squat' 225 I am fine with that. (Granted it won't happen but you get what I am saying :-)
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brandell
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And BTW thanks to Craig's advice front squats went surprisingly well yesterday so I might stay with them
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AlDargie
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Pound for pound, i find front squats much more satisfying also safer if you are a lone lifter. |
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Hapy
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Now you all have convinced me to add these back into my squat rotation. I used this bar extensively when I was rehabbing from shoulder surgery, and I liked it a lot. I could maintain tension a lot better holding the handles in front than with a straight bar. My squat #s were about the same for either bar.
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D. Van Skike
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One thing the SSB is supposed to be really good at is increasing the leverage on your upper back to force you to hold a tighter position. It's not unlike a front squat in this way. This should be good for a number of things including carryover to the back squat.
What I have found is that at moderate weights this is the case, but like Craig noted once you get in the 90% plus rang, you can actually get away with he man round back squatting, which actually reinforces the opposite of what the bar is good at doing (strengthening the upper back). It is a phenomneal bar to use if you have a wrsit or shoulder injury. It's great for GM,s and lunges, is great for box squatting, and generally good for squatting safely (you can self spot really easily) but you need to be ultra focused on the upper back otherwise you can get away with some pretty shitty lifting. JMO/YMMV/PIPPIPCHEERIO. |
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I love to use.
I have purchased one for home as well. Whenever I missed the Gym I use it.
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I love Gym
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