TUBOW: The Portable Squat Coach

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3 жыл бұрын

Need some coaching on your squat? Enter the TUBOW - the Terribly Useful Block Of Wood. In this video, we cover how to use the TUBOW to help fix your knees' forward position, your knees' lateral position, and even your hip position and back angle. Terribly useful.
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Пікірлер: 14

@175epi 3 жыл бұрын

The TUBOW helped me a ton when I was getting coached on the squat tonight. Many thanks to the staff at Testify for all the help I received. To everyone else I say, if you can get there, go there.

@TestifySC 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, and it was great getting to work with you!

@mirodaros 3 жыл бұрын

This video deserves zero dislikes and have zero dislikes! It´s almost as the youtube is right. Thanks for posting!

@TestifySC 3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, and thanks for the kind words!

@travisreid3840 3 жыл бұрын

Very useful indeed. I never thought about using a TUBOW to ensure I was shoving my knees out enough, but that makes a lot of sense. Thanks Phil.

@TestifySC 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to provide a new use for the TUBOW :-)

@beskeptic 3 жыл бұрын

Great content! Thanks!

@TestifySC 3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, Kleydson!

@latticeworker 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that TUYTV! Simple and effective, therefore awesome.

@TestifySC 3 жыл бұрын

Ha! You're welcome :-)

@phillewis3108 2 жыл бұрын

If I don’t have two, is it a onebow? Or if I use 2x4 rather than 4x4, is it a halfbow? Ahem. Sorry. In all seriousness, another succinct and perfectly clear video. You’re helping me loads as I start the NLP.

@TestifySC 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Phil, and I’m glad these videos are helping you out! (and I always appreciate groaners :-))

@dbdeeds1973 2 жыл бұрын

Does this apply to high bar squat as well or only low bar?

@TestifySC 2 жыл бұрын

Certainly more so to low bar than high bar, but there are some circumstances to which you could apply TUBOWs to high bar as well. For example, they can still be useful for lateral knee guidance (i.e., giving a lifter a visual and tactile cue to shove the knees out if they tend to go valgus). You could still use them to block forward progress if that was a problem, but as the knees travel further forward in the high bar squat compared to the low bar squat, we'd need to set them further forward (probably not a common use, but it could happen). Another use: some people would like to squat low bar but cannot due to shoulder issues, and in this case, they often high bar but with as close to low bar mechanics as possible (the back angle can't be quite as horizontal due to the tendency of the bar to roll up the neck if you get that horizontal in a high bar squat). In this case, you could use the TUBOWs pretty close to how a low bar squatter would use them. We've had a guy in his 80s who fell off a horse in his 60s, and thus his shoulder wouldn't tolerate the low bar position, but his knees (arthritis) didn't respond well to high bar mechanics, so he utilized a high bar position with low bar-ish mechanics (he also competed, so using the safety bar all the time didn't work either). Sorry - long response :-)