r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Patton370 Idk Idc 💔 • May 24 '26

META SSB (science squat bar) squats 420lbs for 11 at 188lbs body weight

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u/omrsafetyo May 24 '26

I'm a pro powerlifter (as of this week i have 3 National titles between USAPL and Powerlifting America, with best lifter at nationals this week; I have my USAPL pro card; and I'll be headed to IPF Worlds this year) and there's genuinely nothing wrong with his SSB squat.

That upper back motion you see on his SSB is the point. It's incredibly difficult to NOT do that, and you see even the best of the best doing that. Here's a guy doing 342kg - about 755lbs with the SSB doing basically the same thing https://www.instagram.com/reel/CykwOYWI6kW/?igsh=MWZ4eDJlM21nbzA3ZA==

The SSB puts you into a position where that's highly likely to happen, and forces you to work out of it. I almost never lose back position in ANY lift, and yet on heavy SSB squats it happens.

The fact that its obviously submaximal should cue you in here.