What's Up With These HIGH BAR Squats?

I like hi bar because I don’t injure myself 5 times a year.

Tom Platz

love your channel learning some much from yo,da man

I honestly don’t get low bar squat, for me I feel like I’m having to hold the damn weight up with my arms

His knees look like they're buckling inward each rep.

Tx Alan, why did you choose sets of 8-10 and not lower ?

Hi Alan. If i run this program would i be able to add som arm work or would that effect my recovery

Great video. Yet sometimes I think how is it a pity that you don't like chillout for example.
The shouting like dern crazy derns and you trying to explain something at the same moment.
I don't understand a word.

I did high bar squats for the first time in a year last night and then bam this video come up.... the bots are watching us “puts on tinfoil hat”

I actually feel good about myself because I can lift more weight than what he mentions, with higher reps!! Woo hoo!!!!

Alan is high key a 3 Stacks fan

Nothing really matters.... to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Alan, love your videos from up here in Canada, you really changed my prospective on proper weight lifting thank you!

HEY WAIT AM I SUPPOSED TO TRAIN UNTAMED OR NOT

I always high bar squat, what’s the difference between high n low

"I just put the bar on my back and squatted"

Uh yea sure

I want to jump higher. This means my program will be composed of squatting, and to a lesser degree deadlifting. The only problem is I don't know how much to do? 5 sets of 5 can't possibly be just enough. Would 5 sets of 5 of 2 different leg exercises be a good amount?

Alan great video. I have 4 kids and it's a different level of tough to get out there and lift after, well you know, you've been a DAD and your freaken beat!
Great job getting after it !!!

Feelin' all the Dungeon Fam slaps! AYE!!!!

Hey Alan have you seen Lords of Chaos yet? Remember real black metal bands like Blasphemy and Black Witchery, and of course the almighty Venom in their glory days are/were jacked af!

Meshuggah is the best band for Deadlifts^^

isenrt how larry wheels can do this with his forearm alone

ooh yeah Death.

HARM'S WAY

Venom!! Throw some Celtic Frost "Into crypt of rays" into your videos! Seriously though, video. Not just the music.

lowbar hurts my back more, high bar puts more on my knees

Hey man what's up, can you do a video on how to cure patellar tendonitis? I have sharp stabbing pain in my left knee that I've been enduring for a few months now and I'm really starting to panic. stopped squatting regularly due to it too. I'd like to know how you deal with this, if you ever had it of course

I'm confused, bar position looks like low bar. Just looks like an ATG low bar squat.

Some good ol' 'Spirit Crusher' in the background!

Alan, you just like the sweet quad pump you get from high bar squat. You ain’t got to lie Craig, you ain’t got to lie!

Death!

Like most things, lifting sucks when we get overly dogmatic about things. Variety is the spice of life unless something such as competition requires specificty. Not going to lie, once you moved to starting strength I jumped off the channel. Caught this one in my feed. Watched and I'm back.

Olympic weightlifters use HB, powerlifters use LB.

I think I hear power trip!

Maybe the high bar squat is more difficult because you don't do them as much?

so where is the white board...

This is a massively fatigued Alan Thrall. If you don't know why - I pity you.

Dude, you are a dad now? Congrats! Feel like you are one of my high school mates.

You listen to rap? My nigga!

High bar is how real men squat. Low bar squat is for overgrown roided up babies.

28 FUNCTIONAL lifters watched this video and were disappointed with your lack of functionality.

Playing that ugk... respect

Yup like most sheep.... the way he squats will eventually and invetitably fuck up his knees... just a matter of time. Way to slowly hinge your knee apart for no reason.

@Alan Thrall Use the cuffs to hold your plates in place. I'm missing the end of my left finger because I put a cuff on that was the wrong size (too big), the plates slid off when I put the barbell back and it swung in an arc taking the end of my finger clean off.

It seems counter intuitive that you're teaching people good form when lifting but you're not maximizing your own safety. Honestly, I think it's safer to do squats with poor form than it is to do squats with good form without the cuffs in place. You might have sore muscles with poor form but you're not at risk of having your back thrown out of alignment if the plates slide off mid-lift or losing a finger if they slide off post-lift.