Bottom squats

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Scott Birdby Scott Bird | February 12, 2006
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These certainly get the blood pumping in a hurry. This morning I decided to find out roughly where my 10RM is for these wonderful things, and I’d say the 80kg was pretty close. The problem seems to be not one of weight, but of endurance. Good news indeed - I imagine that I’ll build the endurance reasonably quickly.

Squat (free) 4×10@30/66
Bottom squat 2×10@60/132, 2×10@80/176
RDL 4×10@55/121


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interesting stuff ive never tried bottom up squats. as you did them for reps did you just let the bar come to rest on the pins after each rep?

also did you feel the bottom up was essentially the same path/form as the freeweight squat on the way up?

lastly in your previous post it read “theres no chance to build up kinetic energy for the trip up”, its actually elastic potential energy.

Posted by: john y | February 12, 2006 3:33 PM

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Yep - it was essentially 10 singles without stopping in between. Just a brief pause on the pins each time.

Not too sure about the path - if you ever get a chance to video some, it’d be interesting to see. It feels like there’s more lower back involvement at the start, but that’s also the way I tend to deadlift.

On the kinetic vs elastic potential thing, I thought about that. I’d still use kinetic, as I’m referring to the energy available from the speed of the movement. The elastic potential would refer to the stretch reflex. I think. (haven’t studied physics for a while, so I’m happy to be corrected on this).

Posted by: Scott | February 12, 2006 3:59 PM

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