squats with no pads

[muscledog95]

This week ive started doing squats free bar, without any neck pad. I can squat more, go deeper, and keep my back straighter without the pad. Suggest to anyone to make the leap and ditch the pad.

 

[needsize]

Good point, I've never used one as it messes with my center of gravity by putting the bar too high up on my shoulders

 

[b fold the truth]

You guys are gonna piss Corn off...be careful...lol



B True

 

[bishonen]

I used one when I just started squatting, but I quickly got rid of it. It ends up making the bar more unstable, and actually made my neck hurt worse than squatting without one.

 

[louden_swain]

I have never used a pad. I have always had enough meat in the traps to serve as a large pad . I guess it depends what type of structure you have.

 

[Doktor Bollix]

I've never used a pad but I've heard they are dangerous, that the bar can roll down the back during the exercise with it and fuck up your shoulders.

 

[Haz]

I've recently started using pads, because I was getting some pretty god awful calluses on my traps from the bar. They felt like scales. So now I use my workout towel as a pad, which works well. It isn't so harsh on my skin, and it still provides decent friction to keep the bar stable.

 

[export]

pads are for girlymen...build more traps if it hurts...
i have squated 500+ and never used no pads...pads are for chicks on a rag....

 

[JDarty6173]

Pad? I think I've seen a couple little girls at my gym use one before. LOL... If it hurts without it try holding the bar further down on your rear delts...

 

[rippedtrojan]

it's funny stuff when you see guys using the pad to squat 95lbs.

 

[spatts]

The rear delts make excellent padding.

 

[trial0r]

i used to use one but i figured out that the pad was what made the squats feel unnatural. im 100% padless now

 

[The Shadow]

You guys are gonna piss Corn off...be careful...lol



B True

HEY!!!!


LOL

I said:

"Why should the bar have to dig into my neck for me to have big quads?"

...now center of gravity is another story...my traps sit so high that it makes it higher than using a pad and placing lower on the back

 

[b fold the truth]

B True

 

[Deciever1]

it's funny stuff when you see guys using the pad to squat 95lbs.

better yet... 65lbs on the smith machine with a pad.

 

[The Shadow]

it was 75 fuckyouverymuch

 

[Hannibal]

PAD??!

I agree with Spatts (there's a surprise)...I think my upper back makes a pretty good pad.

 

[spatts]

...but your upper back is SERIOUSLY padded. I need more of that.

 

[Hannibal]

...but your upper back is SERIOUSLY padded.

ya think...

Yeah I need to build up my back even more. Face pulls and seated power cleans...don't need no pad.

 

[Lumberg]

HEY!!!!


LOL

I said:

"Why should the bar have to dig into my neck for me to have big quads?"

...now center of gravity is another story...my traps sit so high that it makes it higher than using a pad and placing lower on the back

You actors are all the same: PUSSIES!

Did you use a pad when you did your famous squat-off?

Seriously though the bar doesn't go ON your traps it goes in the groove between the traps and rear delts. The lower, the easier but also harder on your arms.

JC

Just in case it's not blatantly obvious all the negative comments in this post are 100% sarcastic.

 

[coolcolj]

I use a towel wrapped around the bar.

Cause I get red marks and abrhasions on my back - my skin rips.

And the towel raises the centre of gravity of the bar. I like High Bar squats. The higher the better, allows me to stay more vertical.

 

[Hannibal]

Cause I get red marks and abrhasions on my back - my skin rips.

Yeah...so??!




J/K

 

[JDarty6173]

Cause I get red marks and abrhasions on my back - my skin rips.

Well I had that problem till my shoulder to shoulder calous developed.. LOL Now I got a nice comfy groove to set the bar in....

 

[The Shadow]

lol at Jon....my point is if a pad will make the exercise more likely to be doen who cares??

Squat off - no pad.....heheheh

 

[The Dude]

I never understood the pad myself. The bar fits perfectly across my back, it sits down in that little nook like it was made for it.