My Top 3 Favorite Squat Variations

[@and0o]

Couldn’t click like fast enough, this man knows his stuff and has a knack for clear explanations.

[@PRsPerformance]

Thank you!

[@hypnos-7371]

Another really insightful one, keep throwing 1h videos at us we're READY

[@PRsPerformance]

More to come!

[@mustafaabd.7014]

The safety bar section is complete gold, I saw so much wrong with what I was doing and why I was never comfortable with it!

[@PRsPerformance]

Awesome, hopefully that helps make it a lot more beneficial for you!

[@ClarkHuang]

Much love from a Canadian Powerlifter! Awesome stuff can’t wait for the Deadlift video! Would be cool if you could cover deadlift advice/variations to help lifters with shorter arms and longer torsos! Been struggling with deadlifts for years now!

[@PRsPerformance]

I'll keep that one in mind, thanks for the suggestion!

[@MrRaheemfrank]

Swolefessor sent me here. He highly recommended you great video.

[@PRsPerformance]

Thanks to Marcellus!

[@MatiasStrengthCoach]

Really good video man. I found a lot of quality content on your channel, great to see

[@PRsPerformance]

I appreciate that!

[@vidushbhartia8240]

Great Video! 1) General thoughts on high bar squats as a variation? 2) Does the SSB bar actually activate more quads than regular low bar squats?

[@PRsPerformance]

High bar is great, use it as a variation all the time.

[@biesman5]

Great video!! Just curious, do you have any idea when are you going to release "Top 3 Favorite Bench Variations" video?

[@PRsPerformance]

Probably within 3 weeks or so. I trying to be consistent of uploading once every 3 weeks right now.

[@jeffriggins9106]

Gotta start paying attention to my braces and pelvis, front of my left hip has felt butchered lately.

[@PRsPerformance]

Check out the low bracing and setup video as well if you haven't already, that should definitely help!

[@jeffriggins9106]

@@PRsPerformance will do buddy, thanks

[@ArtlantisDE]

Wouldn't SSBs be even better for hip-hinging squatters (e.g. with long femurs) to fix weaknesses in the knee extension/core?

[@PRsPerformance]

It can be, but it also could be a very demanding movement for someone who is disadvantaged leverage wise for SSB, so that could go both ways.

[@micahgoff7631]

Dang it!! Now I need to remove reverse banded box squat with chains from my programming!! But really this is great content PS.: I may never remove tempo deficit Bulgarian split squats 😘

[@PRsPerformance]

Bulgarian Split Squats will always be my first love.

[@larryconway9303]

Awesome going to do some barefoot paused safety bar squats, just joking great video looking forward to trying out these variations. Thank you for the great content.

[@PRsPerformance]

I mean if you stack all 3, its the holy trinity haha!

[@aminoweis3762]

For someone who's been suffering with knee tendinitis for more than 4 months now, after trying tempo squats they helped a lot with bare feet. In a hypertrophy phase would you say pause squats and tempo squats would be the go as primary and secondary day? (both high-bar)

[@PRsPerformance]

I'd lean more towards pause squats in a hypertrophy phase. Tempo becomes fairly self limiting and excruciatingly exhausting with higher reps, so I usually don't program too many tempo sets over 5 reps.

[@fawzaanmohammad6782]

Hey man I was wondering if youd do a video of how to warm up for the big 3, especially sumo deadlift as I use to do a lot of static stretching for warmups but idk if that's great now becuase of what some people have said

[@PRsPerformance]

Noted, I will keep that in mind! I do think for most warming up tends to be individually based, but I could definitely put together like a top 5 warm-ups for upper and lower body in this same fashion!

[@fawzaanmohammad6782]

@@PRsPerformance I would absolutely love that thank you, been here since less than 100 subscribers

[@kb.gawlik]

As someone that struggles with knee pain for a long time and never went away from comp squats you got me thinking. So pause squatting (sth like 3@7 + sets of 5) on primary day and pause ssb squats on secondary (no top set, 4-6 reps?) would be a good place to start?

[@PRsPerformance]

So most knee pain seems to stem back from doing too high of workload compared to what you can recover from, but moving towards more self limiting variations is a form of workload reduction since absolute intensity decreases. So it definitely would be worth trying!

[@christopherbrady1394]

Front squats? Yes? No?

[@PRsPerformance]

Not a fan, due to the limiting factor of a front squat is holding the bar in place/abdominals.