Deadstop Squats

[rickhussey]

Does anyone on this board do bottom position squats? If so, have you found them to be effective? Looking for something new to add into my training and I just read a good article about them.

[howdy1]

could you explain them more, I set the bar as low as I squat then I get underneath it and push up and then go down, I do four sets of two with as heavy as I can. I been doing that and it is helped a lot

[rickhussey]

hey howdy -- that is how i am doing them. the article i read was by keith wassung. see the link below. i've read about them before ....i think from brooks kubik, but have never used them until now. i am applying the same technique to benchpressing since my weakness is off the chest.

www.martygallagher.com/riverhorse/riverhorse_more/202_0_14_0_C/

[jaynels]

I believe your talking about starting the lift from the loaded barbell on pins and or the power cage bars on the lowest descent the bar would travel? And then get underneath the bar squatting of course and lift it from the bottom to the top? Good reversal strength exercise; the only problem is that of the position one puts him/her into at the bottom. Meaning, people have to start in a leaning position and kinda good morning and squat it at the same time to get it up; hence your same regular sq style should be in the same position in the bottom as with this exercise. I would suggest using that same position that emulates your free form exercise and then add weight. If you can do it w/o goodmorning it to get it started, then your pretty strong in this part and need to work on another weakness in whatever weakness one's squat is in.

[gssherma76]

Actually, you can do chain suspended squats which will allow you much more freedom of movement while providing better support so that you don't GM it up. I have just started doing them and like them a lot. You can also do chain suspended GMs which will hit your posterior chain, very well.

[dominic]

I think I ahve done these before. If I would miss a heavy sqaut I would just lower it to the safety pins then off load some of the weight. Then I would get back under it and sqaut it back up to the pins and reload some weight. This sounds like a good exercise. I did not even know this was a leg exercise. This is the first time I have heard of the deadstop sqauts. Tonight I have leg night so I will try these after my regular squats.

Thanks for the tip,

Dominic

[Deleted]

My training partners do them quite often but I feel too out of position to get the proper push.
Its ok after the first rep but too me if its not in the proper position its almost a wasted rep.
So now I just take it out of the racks and go down until I hit the pins.
I pause for a second or two and push up as fast as possible.
This seems to work better for me and I feel that Im less likely to get injured this way.

[jp]

rickhussey said:

Does anyone on this board do bottom position squats? If so, have you found them to be effective? Looking for something new to add into my training and I just read a good article about them.

I started doing these again myself. Haven't used them in a long while. I place the pins in my power rack one hole below my parallel position.

I keep the bar on the J hooks, so that I can take the weight from there. I squat down to the pins with a narrower stance than my regular power squat. Once the bar is on the pins in the dead stop position, I simply squat back up.

I use 5 sets of 1-3 reps. I don't like to go over 3 reps on rack work as my form generally breaks down after the 3rd rep. I do these after my regular squat workout. I have found in the past that they make my hips stronger, help me out of the hole and also help my start on the deadlift too.

JP

[Deleted]

I don't do bottom position squats. However, I do pause squats.
I load about 80% of my 1 rep max, squat and pause for a 3 count
at the bottom, and reverse explosively.

I do 3 to 5 sets of these about every 4th squat day after I've done
my squat sets. I think they help build the explosiveness needed to
get past your sticking point.

Rick