Is this squat to parallel or not?

[ghettostudmuffin]

The most weight I have lifted off a rack was 675lbs.

I was passing by my national level pl friend who was "warming up" on triples and 675 happened to be what was on the bar when I walked by. I decided to get under it and lift it up.

I succeeded and then promptly put it back down.

I'm confident some day I will be able to squat that much, but at the time I had never seriously tried to unrack anything over about 450.

Let me tell you that just holding that 675 for about 4 seconds I had very sore obliques the next day as well as some ab fatigue.

Just supporting 1250lbs alone is a pretty decent feat of strength imo. Ya, that was an ugly fucking squat, but he he did hit parallel and then rose up higher than when he started so it looked passable to me.

Props to that guy.

 

[twenty47]

its not that i care how pretty his squat looks (which it isnt).. but that just dosnt look parallel to me... and its in a federation that is known to pass lifts that are off...
that would not pass in USPF or IPF... even if they allowed monolifts...

i dont understand how its even a question if that was parallel. it clearly was. ugly obviously but his thigh bones were easily parallel to the ground.

 

[bblazer]

Yes the squat had depth.

I have absolutely no respect for anything done with multi-ply gear, wraps over 2m and out of a monolift.

If you can't walk it out, you can't squat it.

I also have absolutely no respect for the IPF/USAPL so I guess that puts me in a real catch-22.

B-

 

[moya]

Uspf!