Squats with bar pad

[Zander1983]

Wow. Good comeback. What a tough guy you are using just the bar! I bet your parents coudln't be more proud!

I bet you're one of those guys who loads up the bar with some ridiculous weight, lowers it about six inches for two reps, and braggs to your little friends about how much you "squat."

Well done peanut.

IronLion can back up everything he says, and more

 

[IronLion]

Wow. Good comeback. What a tough guy you are using just the bar! I bet your parents coudln't be more proud!

I bet you're one of those guys who loads up the bar with some ridiculous weight, lowers it about six inches for two reps, and braggs to your little friends about how much you "squat."

Well done peanut.

yeah you got me gymturd, please go back to the chat boards


for all the people who actually want to know, this is the ridge and placement of a low bar squat, above the rear delts and at the bottom of the traps

 

[gymtime]

yeah you got me gymturd, please go back to the chat boards


for all the people who actually want to know, this is the ridge and placement of a low bar squat, above the rear delts and at the bottom of the traps

Impressive. If you're teaching newbies how to lift with their backs and not their legs.

Now, in your infinite wisdom, what possible difference would a pad make? Doesn't change the fact that you're bent over like you're waiting for your boyfriend to come home.

 

[revexrevex]

Gymtime you keep on embarassing yourself with attacks on one of the strongest people out there. Bar pad can cause the bar to slide off your back, which would not be a pleasent experience for you. Even with squeezing my rear deltoids hard together I had to keep it there with my arms.

 

[gymtime]

Gymtime you keep on embarassing yourself with attacks on one of the strongest people out there. Bar pad can cause the bar to slide off your back, which would not be a pleasent experience for you. Even with squeezing my rear deltoids hard together I had to keep it there with my arms.

Read back rev. Pretty boy here started getting snippy, not me. And I've NEVER had a bar slide of my back or had balance issues with a pad. It's a simple preference. It doesn't make this guy any tougher or stronger.

Plus he has yet to answer my simple question. I'd like to hear this.

 

[revexrevex]

Well its an issue of personal preference, which is unique based on goals and attitude, so lets not fight over this.

 

[gymtime]

Well its an issue of personal preference, which is unique based on goals and attitude, so lets not fight over this.

Which is what I've been saying all along. But your mentor here seems to disagree and I'd simply like to know why.

My contention, as in my original post, is that it's purely an ego thing and makes absolutely no difference in terms of goals, results, etc.

Prove me wrong.

 

[IronLion]

Gymtime you really are embarrasing yourself, no one who knows how to squat uses a pad, it is unstable, useless and prevents the bar from resting where it should.....come on big guy you know that


As for lifting with my back and not my legs, wtf is that....i must have a strong back to be doing 500 pound squats with no belt and no wraps, atf.

Seriously guy what are you talking about...enlighten me

 

[gymtime]

Gymtime you really are embarrasing yourself, no one who knows how to squat uses a pad, it is unstable, useless and prevents the bar from resting where it should.....come on big guy you know that


As for lifting with my back and not my legs, wtf is that....i must have a strong back to be doing 500 pound squats with no belt and no wraps, atf.

Seriously guy what are you talking about...enlighten me

How am I embarrassing myself? Because I disagree with the great IronLion? I've been squatting at least as long as you have, ten years, and sometimes I use a pad. I've had no instability problems, and the idea that a quarter inch thick piece of foam placed between my shoulders and the bar somehow keeps it from "resting where it should" is ludicrous.

As for your squat, that's a lot of weight, no doubt. But I don't exactly see textbook form there. Got a side view? My money says a side view would show you leaning too far forward. But that's beside the point.

You suggested that I'm a pussy for using a pad. Why? Because real men like you don't use them? Nonsense. That's exactly the kind of egomeniacal crap that gets tossed around this board all the time. Oh, and I was giving advice on the Training board long before you showed up big man, so uh, I'll just go ahead and post whereever the hell I want.

 

[IronLion]

Uh....knowing where to position a bar on your shoulders for a squat is not exactly rocket science. I know exactly where to put it and the pad simply makes it more comfortable, for some of us anyway. If you don't like it, don't use it.

i started this?

sorry for trying to help people understand that a pad is useless and prevents one from finding the right groove for the bar and the proprer forward lean to support it.

gymtime you should really just write this off as a learning experience, you obviously haven't figured out how to squat yet...I'm sure you would add a lot of weight to your squats if you lost the pad.....but hey what do I know