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post 1615418941 09-02-2020, 08:52 PM
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Wednesday Night Squat/Leg Workout with DrewDarden (video)

Squat 4x4-6 (+60 lb chain)
Hatfield Squat 3x10 (+60 lb chain)
KB RDL 3x12
Back Raise 3x10
Calves 3x10

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post 1615419091 09-02-2020, 08:56 PM
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Leg day for me too brah. Might be difficult walking around tomorrow
post 1615419541 09-02-2020, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted By bigcat3655⏩
Leg day for me too brah. Might be difficult walking around tomorrow
Yeah same.👍🏻

What did your leg session look like?
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post 1615420941 09-02-2020, 09:22 PM
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Yass someone else who uses the SSB. Underrated as hell imo.
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post 1615421111 09-02-2020, 09:25 PM
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I haven't done squats in years due to sciatica. I see you use the safety squat bar - do you really think that helps and keeps your form honest and lower back more properly inline?
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Originally Posted By Ironface⏩
Yass someone else who uses the SSB. Underrated as hell imo.
Yeah I love that bar.
Originally Posted By cptamerica59⏩
I haven't done squats in years due to sciatica. I see you use the safety squat bar - do you really think that helps and keeps your form honest and lower back more properly inline?
I would say it makes keeping your form proper more difficult. Because the bar is raised up a couple of inches off the top of your traps, the weight on the bar tries to force you forward. Your main job (besides squatting the weight obviously) is keep your chest up using this bar. Doing so recruits a lot of the musculature in your upper back.

Anyway its a lot easier on your shoulders too since you don’t have to reach behind you.
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post 1615421801 09-02-2020, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩
Yeah I love that bar.



I would say it makes keeping your form proper more difficult. Because the bar is raised up a couple of inches off the top of your traps, the weight on the bar tries to force you forward. Your main job (besides squatting the weight obviously) is keep your chest up using this bar. Doing so recruits a lot of the musculature in your upper back.

Anyway its a lot easier on your shoulders to since you don’t have to reach behind you.
I find gripping the handles a bit more horizontally helps maintain thoracic extension. I also feel SSB squats alot more in my abs than olympic bar squats (weird considering the EMG studies I’ve read showed less abdominal activation on SSB bar compared to olympic bar)
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post 1615423211 09-02-2020, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted By Ironface⏩
I find gripping the handles a bit more horizontally helps maintain thoracic extension.
I’m probably stating the obvious, but that’s probably because you are lowering the bar down a little further on your back when you do that.

I actually like to keep the handles down because I want that upper back recruitment.
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post 1615424171 09-02-2020, 10:03 PM
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Hmm interesting reply. What is the benefit to you than of the SSB? I thought it was supposed to be the savior of the lower lumber region.
post 1615424921 09-02-2020, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩
I’m probably stayed in the obvious, but that’s probably because you are lowering the bar down a little further on your back when you do that.

I actually like to keep the handles down because I want that upper back recruitment.
True, though for me it’s a slight raising before I descend - nothing major enough to shift the bar’s position to any significant extent.
Originally Posted By cptamerica59⏩
Hmm interesting reply. What is the benefit to you than of the SSB? I thought it was supposed to be the savior of the lower lumber region.
It might be easier on the lower back for some people. I think this is largely individual, like on high bar vs low bar squats - some people swear high bar feels easier on their back, others feel the lower bar position shifts the axial loading to a position that relieves pressure on the back.

I like SSB squats chiefly for the following reasons:

- Quad activation
- Feels easier on wrists, elbows, shoulders
- FOR ME, the form feels easier. Feels more like a goblet squat and depth just seems so much easier to get into. I pretty much exclusively go ATG on these
- After a long period of exclusively barbell squatting, these are a great variation to make squatting seem fresh again
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Yesterday was the first day of gyms re-opening in my state and today I got my first workout in.

Hit some squats/legs and I feel like stephen hawking from the waist down. Didn't even go super heavy but did a lot of volume, Idk how im going to walk tomorrow.

4 sets of back squats
4 sets of single leg press
4 sets of lower back hyperextensions w 45lb plate
4 sets standing calf raise
4 sets seated calf raise
4 sets quad extensions supersetted w hamstring curls

Its so great to be back in the gym again, I missed this sh*t so much. Been a long 6 months but we back baby.
post 1615426661 09-02-2020, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted By ShakeBrah⏩
whatever happened to that guy who would post videos of him doing random exercises with the same song and like 2 minutes of black screen??
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post 1615427941 09-02-2020, 11:02 PM
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Not enough jk screaming
Hair too far apart
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post 1615428271 09-02-2020, 11:13 PM
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More intense than mine, I did leg curls, ext and calf raises.

Tfw strained adductor
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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩
Yeah same.

What did your leg session look like?
Leg extensions and a couple hundred bodyweight squats.
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Originally Posted By KAPAT⏩
Yesterday was the first day of gyms re-opening in my state and today I got my first workout in.

Hit some squats/legs and I feel like stephen hawking from the waist down. Didn't even go super heavy but did a lot of volume, Idk how im going to walk tomorrow.

4 sets of back squats
4 sets of single leg press
4 sets of lower back hyperextensions w 45lb plate
4 sets standing calf raise
4 sets seated calf raise
4 sets quad extensions supersetted w hamstring curls

Its so great to be back in the gym again, I missed this sh*t so much. Been a long 6 months but we back baby.
My legs are feeling surprisingly good this morning.
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Feet shouldn’t point out so much
Not enough jk screaming
Hair too far apart
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Lol’d at hair. Feet are fine.
Originally Posted By cptamerica59⏩
Hmm interesting reply. What is the benefit to you than of the SSB? I thought it was supposed to be the savior of the lower lumber region.
I like the shoulder saving effect and the upper back effect. I’m not sure I could say there’s any benefit to my low back.
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post 1615441971 09-03-2020, 05:41 AM
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My gym just added a safety bar squat. I really want to try the hatfield squat. Chit looks like it feels amazing.
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post 1615444361 09-03-2020, 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted By TheMusketeer⏩
My gym just added a safety bar squat. I really want to try the hatfield squat. Chit looks like it feels amazing.
It’s a good way to take balance out of it while just focusing on the legs. It kinda reminds me of a leg press in a way.
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What does everybody else’s leg training look like this week?
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Originally Posted By Ironface⏩
Yass someone else who uses the SSB. Underrated as hell imo.
Rona made me finally add one to my home gym since I missed it more than any other single piece of equipment when my gym got shut down. I think I've only done back squats with a straight bar like 3× since my SSB arrived, and that has been 4-5 months I think.
Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩
What does everybody else’s leg training look like this week?
Monday was SSB with heel elevation.
Yesterday was snatch grip RDL's.
Tomorrow will hit belt squats.
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post 1615472531 09-03-2020, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted By 78novacaine⏩
Monday was SSB with heel elevation.
Yesterday was snatch grip RDL's.
Tomorrow will hit belt squats.
I’m on a lunch break right now putting my belt squat together as we speak. I’ll post it up later when I’m finished. Pretty pumped.
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post 1615510171 09-03-2020, 07:14 PM
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I’m a little surprised. My legs are feeling fine today. What’s everybody training today?
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post 1615510951 09-03-2020, 07:24 PM
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Can I give you some advice?
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Originally Posted By KingSWRV⏩
Can I give you some advice?
Nah I’m sweet.

https://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showt...7055211&page=1
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post 1615511901 09-03-2020, 07:37 PM
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can you consolidate your stuff to one thread?
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Originally Posted By amikaelmorris⏩
can you consolidate your stuff to one thread?
No.

If the Misc was a busy place with a bunch of threads like it used to be, sure. But as it is, my threads are some of the few in a spattering of incel threads where they're acting like bitches and idiotic political threads.

So no.
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post 1615512121 09-03-2020, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩
Nah I’m sweet.

https://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showt...7055211&page=1
Ok

I was just gonna say stick your booty out more when you squat
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