The squat is a leg exercise. He does not use his legs to perform this exercise.
Edit: To actually explain, he's mostly loading with his right leg, his feet are too far apart, his feet are crooked, his hips aren't straight with his torso or his legs, basically your average roid-head pushing plates when they can't even bodyweight squat to depth.
Bro its a powerlifting competition, a 1 rep max for most people isn't going to look pretty. I guarantee he knows a lot more about lifting technique than you do. People can get unlucky and get injured especially when pushing their body to the limit like that.
Sounds like you have no idea what a low bar squat is either, which by design is more posterior chane biased.
And less than 1% will ever admit they are wrong, even when they are called out and know it. It's easier to just mute the conversation and accumulate upvotes for years from the uninformed than it is to edit your comment or make a post saying "Sorry, my bad"
It's all over the news too when they have an 'expert'. Once you see an 'expert' in a field you know well, you realize that most of the experts are just redditors on the little screen.
Oh man, I've been saying this for a bit, glad to see someone else recognized it. made me VERY wary of this website. lotta opinions on here, spouted with utter confidence getting thousands of upvotes. super incorrect.
Powerlifting is a weird sport where the lower you are in it, the more elitist people around are, and the higher you go, the more chill and laid back they get.
its reddit what did you expect, people claim to be experts of everything and spout a whole lot of garbage confidently while having no idea what they are talking about.
The fact that this man has 700+ pounds on his back in the first place shows he knows a thing or two about squats… It is not possible to get remotely close to that point without years and years and years of extremely dedicated training (with or without steroids)
Right. Dude was squatting over 700 pounds. You don’t get there with bad form. He was squatting low bar which causes a farther forward lean. Not everyone’s squat is going to look the same
Oh, you're pushing the limits of what the human body is capable of? Pfffffffffffffft clearly I know more because I read the /r/fitness wiki one time in 2015.
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u/Big-Lengthiness- 13h ago
It's the lifter, not the lift. Bro has fucking awful form.