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All right, we got a Q&A episode here for you today.

The first question is, I'm 50 and I don't have a safety bar to squat with any thoughts on substitutions.

My first thought is get more serious about your training, get more serious about your health,

about your joint health.

I would you be 50 years old training in a place

that only gives you the option of doing a barbell back squat?

That sounds like a horrible, horrible place to train

if you care about your longevity and your joints and feeling good.

So first option, get a better gym.

It's mind-blowing to me when people say, oh, you know, like, they'll tell me there's a great

gym and I'll say, oh, I looked it up online.

It has prime.

It has Atlantis.

It has flex leverage. It has flex leverage.

It has a sideback squat press.

Looks fucking amazing.

That's where you should train.

And they go, oh, it's another six minute drive.

And I go, dude, you're 56.

Like, how are you going to survive another year of training in a powerlifting gym with nothing but a straight barbell? What are you doing? Let's get serious here. If you are someone who didn't know

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