74- How Powerlifting Squats Can Help You CrossFit

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2013

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Do you want the ability to squat a "legit" amount of weight? Are you sick of seeing everyone else in the gym out squat you? To discover how a beginner, intermediate, and advanced athlete can improve their squat, this episode of the Barbell Shrugged podcast goes where most CrossFitters don't dare go: Powerlifting. You'll learn the best set and rep ranges for your current level of ability. You'll learn about chains and bands and why you would use them. You'll also learn about specialty bars and how they can help you squat if you're injured or lack mobility.

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0:00.0	This week on Bravo Shrugged we talk about the squat, how important it is, all the different
0:05.6	kinds of squatting you can do, depending on whether you're a beginner, intermediate athlete,
0:10.0	or an advanced ass kicker, and hell. The squat deserves its own episode. Here we go.
0:30.0	Is that a strip club? Yeah. All right. Welcome to Barbell Shrugged. I'm Mike Plesso here with
0:37.7	Doug Larson, Chris Moore, and we're bringing our faction coach, David Kroos in here as well.
0:45.1	What up? We're going to try and make sure he gets to say something. He's awesome at coaching,
0:50.8	but we're awesome at talking, so we'll see how that works out. We're trying to teach him,
0:56.1	teach him the ropes of the podcast world. This is my third one. Well, the first one was kind of
1:04.0	unofficial, but never aired. Oh, wait. Was that your fourth then technically? The first one
1:11.0	didn't air and you're on two other ones and now this one? This was the third official. Yeah,
1:15.6	it was the fourth. All right. All right. You got no fucking excuse. Just saying that today,
1:19.4	we're going to be talking about squats, but before we get into squatting, we will be
1:25.2	make sure you go to barbellstroke.com, sign up for the newsletter. Got new stuff going on.
1:29.6	We probably haven't weighed too much going on. There's no way we're going to talk about it.
1:33.4	All of it on the podcast, so sign up there so we can send you emails,
1:37.1	notify you about it. Hit up the Facebook and like us there. Like us everywhere. Like us everywhere.
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1:50.6	I promise. That's very dark excuse for you. I was inspired.
1:56.3	All right. So we'll get on into the topic today. We're going to talk about squatting and why
2:00.6	Chris more. Why are we talking about squatting?
2:04.0	Well, squatting is awesome. Squatting is the bedrock of what we do as people who are trying to
2:08.6	get really strong. Is it not? Is it not the foundation of everything? Arguably so. It's true
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