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Plague of Strength
SQUATTER RIGHTS OR SQUATTER RIOTS.
Fuck an a right.
An elite squatter’s not unlike the fuckers in Fight Club, except for the fact that if their structure collapses, they’re wholly and irreparably fucked. Raw squatting is squatting without a safety net- without briefs, a suit, or any of the other wacky accouterments of geared squatting (I’ve even seen people squat wearing bench shirts), and in most cases you have to walk your happy ass out of the rack as well, ratcheting up the fear factor and difficulty of the lift even higher. As a result,
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Squat Development for Weightlifting
Now. Let’s go to work.
Methods
The primary method I use is based on the same framework as the program Coach Pendlay uses at MDUSA. It is a variation of the so-called Texas Method.
The setup is very simple. On Monday, back squat for volume. On Wednesday, front squat, usually heavy triples. On Saturday, attempt to back squat some type of PR. We typically push the set of 5 in the back squat more than any other rep range, something else I picked up from Coach Pendlay. It seems to carry over to the clean & jerk better – probably because of the increased time under tension. In my experience, lifters are also less likely to sacrifice form for a new PR set of 5 than they are for a new PR single.
Closer to a meet, we will lower the volume and increase the intensity, and do more front squatting than back squatting.
I generally don’t do much work with percentages, and I also don’t often dictate changes in rep ranges, but prefer to let them happen naturally. When a lifter can no longer perform 3 sets of 5 on Monday, we’ll move to 4 sets of 4. When he has failed a new 5RM attempt two weeks in a row, we’ll move to 3RM. However, for the sake of having a concrete example of the program, the following is a depiction of how th