Meanwhile in Estonia…
Mart Seim(+105kg) posted this 370kg back squat from his morning training onto his instagram.
You can read his interview about how he trained his squat here.
Update: Mart Squatted 400kg!
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Meanwhile in Estonia…
Mart Seim(+105kg) posted this 370kg back squat from his morning training onto his instagram.
You can read his interview about how he trained his squat here.
Update: Mart Squatted 400kg!
Might have to replace — no, there’s no ‘might’ about it — Pat Mendes’ 800 lb back squat as the best I’ve ever seen. Much easier too. I’m glad he’s on Instagram now. To me this totally blows away the 1,000+ lb squats seen in powerlifting with all manner of gear, monolifts, and questionable depth.
The last two 1000lb+ Squats in powerlifting have both been at similar depth to this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zZTNS_BFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_KYCwe4rg
They’re wearing knee wraps, that’s all. And both are 100kg more than this one.
Kneewraps, powerliftingbelt, lowbar, (and monolift in the case of Zahir).
While impressive, highbar squatting 370kg raw is on a whole other level.
Is that Ed Coan that checks the bar before the lift and stands behind Malanichev?
Very impressive squatting also by Mart Seim.
Still an interesting discussion whether you need to squat so much more than you clean. Alexeyev never squatted much more than he could clean. Given the huge weights these guys lift I also wonder whether that is an unnecessary risk of getting injured. Nowadays it seems in all sports to be about doing more and more and the athletes are injured more often and many have to retire quite early without ever realizing their full potential.
I agree with you.
Lumbar injuries are one of the most common in weightlifting. Why do weightlifters get lumbar injuries? Due to back squats and heavy clean pulls. Does more than one-third of your training time have to be spent on heavy squats and pulls? Perhaps not, since catching and recovering from the clean are the easy parts of the lift and most competing weightlifters fail in the jerk.
Soviet weightlifting science established that a reserve strength in back squat of 25% over your best clean is sufficient for competitions. It is highly questionable if back squats over 125% of clean provide any useful reserve strength.
Notice how the Ivanko discs are all at the end of the bar to get the most whip/bounce out of the bottom.
He has it the other way for the 320×10.