How to Find the Best Back Squat Program for CrossFit and Strength Athletes w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged— Barbell Shrugged #436
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
There are countless programs on the internet to build your back squat.
With 80+ years of experience on this podcast, we have done them all.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders, Doug, and Travis discuss:
Finding a goal specific program to increase your squat.
20 Rep Back Squat program for CrossFitters
Best back squat program for building a new 1 Rep Max
Functional Fitness training programs and squat programs for group classes
Accessory training for back squat programs
What to expect taking on a new back squat program
And more…
TRAINING PROGRAMS
One Ton Strong - 8 Weeks to PR your snatch, clean, jerk, squat, deadlift, and bench press
20 REP BACK SQUAT PROGRAM - Giant Legs and a Barrell Core
8 Week Snatch Cycle - 8 Weeks to PR you Snatch
Aerobic Monster - 12 week conditioning, long metcons, and pacing strategy
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family. Three months ago I put out the coolest hardest, baddest, most fun squat program of my entire life. |
| 0:09.8 | The 20-row back squat program. It's the most important squat program that's ever happened to me in my entire life. |
| 0:14.6 | I found the book super squats. I used to run the program in my gym all the time every year. |
| 0:20.8 | All of our athletes at computer to regionals would do the program before the open. |
| 0:26.6 | And once we got really comfortable doing it with all the competitive athletes, we started to move it into the Gen Pop Health and Fitness programs with massive results. |
| 0:37.5 | Super squats was written in 1989. It's been 30 years and the entire CrossFit craze has taken over the world, the functional fitness, high intensity, people love the conditioning. |
| 0:50.8 | And this single program is so incredibly good for the functional fitness athlete. Yet nobody has put out a definitive program on how to implement 20-row back squats, |
| 1:03.8 | which has been around for hundreds of years into the new functional fitness fitness paradigm. So that's why we wrote it. |
| 1:12.3 | And even cooler, just to test it out. As soon as I got my brand new PRX Performance Home Gym, it was the perfect place. |
| 1:21.5 | You have to break your brand new PRX Performance Home Gym in the right way. So what do you do? |
| 1:26.3 | You do it with the hardest, baddest, coolest squat program in the world. |
| 1:29.9 | And I really wanted to test myself. My lifetime best was 315. I haven't done the full program, but I've been like building this moment in my head. |
| 1:37.2 | So I took the PRX Performance Squat Rack, which normally sits right on the wall. I pulled it down. It turns into the perfect squat rack. |
| 1:45.2 | Put my Aliko Barbell in there. 315 on the bar. Sit down, stand up, three breaths in between each for 20 reps. |
| 1:54.4 | I hit it. My lifetime best is like the coolest lifetime achievement to be able to go and do that program. |
| 2:02.0 | Hit my lifetime best. Do it on one of the baddest squat racks that I've ever owned in my own garage to break in my brand new |
| 2:08.7 | Home Gym Garage Gym PRX Performance Gym. It's so awesome. I really enjoy the PRX Home Gym by the way. |
| 2:16.1 | And if you go over to PRXPerformance.com and use the coupon code shrugged, you can say 5%. |
| 2:21.3 | I love the thing. It's so radical. If it's perfectly in my house, my wife can still park the car in there. |
| 2:27.6 | And I've got just a dope home gym to film all kinds of fun stuff. |
| 2:32.4 | And if you train in your garage on a regular basis, you're going to save a ton of space. |
| 2:36.0 | So get over to PRXPerformance. Use the coupon code shrugged to save 5%. |
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