I just tried this setup in my home gym and it works so well. It's way better than my previous method of attaching plates directly to a dip belt and standing on bumpers. Thanks so much for the idea and all the info you put out!

just a bit of feedback. Very indept, however i feel alot of your videos are way too long. Like I have 20minutes to solely learn about the belt squat

Just imagine if I was helping

I haven’t tried the belt squat but I really would like to. Anyone have experience?

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Is this place what you used to be corrupted strength or am i trippin?

I have to pick my poison. Burying my shoulder blades into the bench will protect my shoulders, but trigger lower back pain. If I do it without burying my shoulders into bench, my back won't hurt, but my rotator cuff will scream.

if your torso is leaning forward, wouldn't that make the belt overload your lower back a lot?

My only problem in the past was being too short and the plates hitting the floor before I hit parallel

Loooooooove the belt squat

Belt squats always felt a little off. I blamed the lever pulling me forward, hopefully this helps. Thanks for video

i agreed iam 6´6 and feet infront of me i get zero stability

I've had a similar experience from doing high-bar smith squats where I cue super hard to stay on my quads. I haven't had access to belt squat machines that don't feel really uncomfortable, they tend to be kinda small and cramped here

Started belt squats thanks to your videos :]

Black Widow Training Gear sell a pin/pipe adapter for belt squats and Viking press, and the mammoth belt squat is another cheap and effective way to do it

Do you have to load up 1200 lbs to belt squat at your gym???

IMO a lever belt squat is a pretty damn cheap piece of equipment for a home gym that does something (quad work w/o spine loading) that you can’t duplicate and people should just buy one.

Good idea but I dunno if I have the confidence to setup the rack like that at a globo gym

No matter how hard I try there is no way I can retract my shoulders and have them stay retracted.

Bros carrying my powerlifting career

I always thought I was pressing in a straight line but when I think abou it the bar locks over my shoulders exaggerated that horizontal displacement or the bar comes over their eyes. I guess I always considered that to be the s curve that I loathed and the straight line to be a straight as my body allows it. My arms definitely flare gradually as I press the bar off my chest but I would like to emphasize the fact that my Arch became pretty extreme in that my lower back were much higher than my clavicle almost as if I was lying on a shallow decline my shoulders are still in the line with the weight when I press in a straight line because of the angle of the decline. Although I try to Arch yo Gotti's wife I'm on a very shower decline it's really not exactly the same and I'm still using some lateral displacement to bring the bar to lock out over my shoulders towards my gut I never really thought of it this way I but your ladder replacement is so subtle when you're pressing fast that I didn't notice it until I watched you with the illustration of a straight line. Some people tend to push the weight backwards at an angle and they stick because they flare their elbows for pushing back too early so by the time the freezes off the chest the bars over the upper chest out to the side with the inside of the elbow facing the opposite inside of the elbow if both of the album are pointed towards your feet with the inside of the elbow pointed towards your head at lockout your arms will be lower torso and not at a 90° angle which makes perfect sense I appreciate all of these personal due diligence investigation that you've done lightweight I always tested on a straight line but I need to tell you that always ends up over my shoulders while at the same time my elbows are gradually rotating from a truck referred position after the first four or five inches of the press

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Thank you.

I’m currently 149 5’7 wondering on what size I should get I’m leaning more towards the 10mm because of this video

Should've done it sumo, facing each other 😏

It’s not that your trying to hamstring curl on the decent of your squat , or trying to use your lats when pressing with your chest , it’s about having the body fully contracted while utilizing the targeted muscles of the movement your doing , having the antagonist active and every other part of your body is key because you may not contract them at all when doing an exercise and you leak strength . No matter if your isolating a muscle with an exercise your full body should be active , especially the stabilizing muscles and even antagonist

I have no idea how i havent found your channel eaelier. This is a gem. Dropping a follow

I know this is a 2yr old video, but, what i got so far was you didn't like the adidas shoe because the second insole was too cushioning or thick. But on the slippers that you wore in the video you were wearing socks with the slippers, wouldnt the socks give you cushion like the adidas shoe insole was giving?

good take

I'm confused about this being a topic right now. Is there some sort of resurgence in the lifter sphere of people pushing Bulldog Grip for bench? Cause it's not new; Barbell Medicine was suggesting using the Bulldog Grip for pressing as far back as 2018 as a way to ensure the bar was on top of your wrist if you were holding the bar to far back in your hands and it wasn't on top of your wrist. Which is usually what makes me suggest it to people in the gym, i.e. I see them benching the bar is closer to their proximal knuckle than their Radius/Ulna.

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Great information. Thank you

Anyways who talk about 400 kg deadlift

Love the video but I CAN NOT CONCENTRATE with the cutest dog ever chilling there

How would you protect your shoulders from injury without retracting?

Makes sense because whenever I tried to unnaturally retract my shoulders it just felt so weird.

Sean’s feet position is because of usapl rules, feet have to flat. Other girl must be in another federation

4/7/8, unusual ratio on lifts. Massive DL there.

Sounds like a shoulder injury waiting to happen lol

All these fancy new terms and ideas are usually worthless for most people. I love your analogy to hook grip. Hook grip takes a ton of time to get used to, is extremely hard to use if your hands are small, and is only used by a small percentage of lifters. The “bulldog” grip is even more nuanced. First, no grip will “blow-up” your bench press. Going wider, or more narrow impacts the lift the most. Also, internally rotating the hands too much can be uncomfortable which directly how comfortable somebody feels. In the end, grips, whether in the deadlift - bench or even the squat will vary from person to person. There is never a one size fits all approach. I wish people would focus more on just mastering their underlying technique. That’s where the best gains come from.

Maybe doing this with a bench inside the rings is part of my problem

On the walk out with the feet too wide... that's how I almost snapped my stuff up trying to do a Static Hold with 515 lbs. It's the first time since 2018 that I got scared when doing Squats.

Turns out this entire time I was using some flashy bench grip lol. I just always bench without my fingers wrapped around the bar because it doesn't feel as comfortable as fingers over

The "trendy" very straight bar path/internally rotated shoulders/high touch point is everywhere on social media, but i think it only works for people that can make their archs highest point very high on chest, otherwise ur rom actually increase and youll injure something eventually. I think most people should just focus on making their starting position feel as close as possible as decline bench press/touch low, since its basically what were trying to achieve by arching. For actual grip, focusing on feeling some weight on the edge/outside of my palms after i internally rotate the thumbs has worked well for me. Also, if you try to force a high touch point when its just not meant to be, then you can end up doing a jm press without noticing, cause the body tries to protect your rotator cuffs/doesnt allow you to go straight down.

Had no idea there was a name for this grip. It just came naturally to me once I moved to max grip

I had never heard of this grip before but I practically use it minus the fact that my index and middle still wrap around.

good stuff!

Theres an Elite FTS vid with JM on what I believe is bulldog grip. and he says that bending the bar will rotate your arms back out to counter the hands being internally rotated. If you hold your arms out in front of you, you can rotate your hands around without really rotating your arms. I get that it can still effect your arm rotation but not as much as people would think.

[internally rotates grip 2 degrees] I bulldog grip now.

Never tried this, but the position of the wrists also seems incredibly uncomfortable. As someone with pretty fragile wrists, I will probably never try this grip.