I’ve been seeing a lot videos lately on social media sites with people doing “no hand squats” - what the hell? Why/When did this become all the rage?
Here’s Misha doing 300kg with no hands:
It’s a neat party trick, but my opinion is it’s only cool if you’re squatting without hands more than most people can squat with hands. Nobody cares that someone can balance the bar and a couple of plates on their back.
I don’t know, but I’ll tell you a story about no hands squats. Mikhail Koklyaev once did a no hands squat with something like 660lbs. He loves to do things to please the crowd, and that’s just something he decided to do for some showmanship. Sam Byrd saw this and thought “Holy shit I want to do that.” I later watched Sam squat 645lbs in the Animal Cage with no hands. Pretty awesome, especially considering Sam is like 100lbs lighter than Misha lol.
Maybe other people were similarly inspired? I dunno, more likely some dumbass crossfit guy did one with like 135 and everyone followed suit. Let me know if any of them are doing it with 600+.
Goddammit Silyak you snuck in front of me…
Sure its impressive but keeping your hands on the bar and close to your body allows proper form - not to mention if you get a little off balance you could seriously hurt yourself. In my opinion the risks outweigh the “coolness”
[quote]betaomegabeta wrote:
Sure its impressive but keeping your hands on the bar and close to your body allows proper form - not to mention if you get a little off balance you could seriously hurt yourself. In my opinion the risks outweigh the “coolness”[/quote]
Honestly the risk seems to be pretty low. There is an incredible likeliness that any ‘mistake’ in the squat itself will just end in the bar rolling off your back since you aren’t doing anything extra to hold it there save for having upper back musculature and leaning forward a bit.
Basically, you’d end up dumping it like a regular squat, except quicker.
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.
because nards
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?
[quote]csulli wrote:
I later watched Sam squat 645lbs in the Animal Cage with no hands.[/quote]
How about when Bobby Fields no hand squated and when in the hole picked up a dead squat bar. Reckless yes. Entertaining, hell ya.
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?[/quote]
ooooooohhh no you didn’t. Internet squat number contest!!!
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
I later watched Sam squat 645lbs in the Animal Cage with no hands.[/quote]
How about when Bobby Fields no hand squated and when in the hole picked up a dead squat bar. Reckless yes. Entertaining, hell ya.[/quote]
Made me want to try it immediately. Never did though, thank you for reminding me. Got to remember to do that soon lol.
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?[/quote]
ooooooohhh no you didn’t. Internet squat number contest!!! [/quote]
Indeed.
I’ll just do the right thing and say “More than you Silyak, more than you.”
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?[/quote]
ooooooohhh no you didn’t. Internet squat number contest!!! [/quote]
Indeed.
I’ll just do the right thing and say “More than you Silyak, more than you.”[/quote]
And I’ve never tried a no hands squat. Nice job dodging the point, though.
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?[/quote]
ooooooohhh no you didn’t. Internet squat number contest!!! [/quote]
Indeed.
I’ll just do the right thing and say “More than you Silyak, more than you.”[/quote]
And I’ve never tried a no hands squat. Nice job dodging the point, though.[/quote]
Nobody should ever answer a question like that here anyway…no matter what number I say it will either be laughed at (almost no matter how high I could possibly say my squats are) or seen as a lie. So if you’re smart you know not to do it.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?[/quote]
ooooooohhh no you didn’t. Internet squat number contest!!! [/quote]
Indeed.
I’ll just do the right thing and say “More than you Silyak, more than you.”[/quote]
And I’ve never tried a no hands squat. Nice job dodging the point, though.[/quote]
Nobody should ever answer a question like that here anyway…no matter what number I say it will either be laughed at (almost no matter how high I could possibly say my squats are) or seen as a lie. So if you’re smart you know not to do it.[/quote]
I suppose that’s fair. My point is that squatting 300 kilos to depth is impressive with hands. I don’t see how it become less impressive without hands.
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
Totally.
Whats next? Hands free sword fights?
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?[/quote]
ooooooohhh no you didn’t. Internet squat number contest!!! [/quote]
Indeed.
I’ll just do the right thing and say “More than you Silyak, more than you.”[/quote]
And I’ve never tried a no hands squat. Nice job dodging the point, though.[/quote]
Nobody should ever answer a question like that here anyway…no matter what number I say it will either be laughed at (almost no matter how high I could possibly say my squats are) or seen as a lie. So if you’re smart you know not to do it.[/quote]
I suppose that’s fair. My point is that squatting 300 kilos to depth is impressive with hands. I don’t see how it become less impressive without hands. [/quote]
I’m sincerely happy we can come to this; I didn’t mean to start any fights.
I agree that it indeed would take massive strength and coordination to a hands free squat, I just thought it seemed uncessesarily dangerous.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
If it was impressive I’d be impressed but since it’s dumb I think it’s stupid.[/quote]
How much can you squat (with or without hands)?[/quote]
ooooooohhh no you didn’t. Internet squat number contest!!! [/quote]
Indeed.
I’ll just do the right thing and say “More than you Silyak, more than you.”[/quote]
And I’ve never tried a no hands squat. Nice job dodging the point, though.[/quote]
Nobody should ever answer a question like that here anyway…no matter what number I say it will either be laughed at (almost no matter how high I could possibly say my squats are) or seen as a lie. So if you’re smart you know not to do it.[/quote]
I suppose that’s fair. My point is that squatting 300 kilos to depth is impressive with hands. I don’t see how it become less impressive without hands. [/quote]
I’m sincerely happy we can come to this; I didn’t mean to start any fights.
I agree that it indeed would take massive strength and coordination to a hands free squat, I just thought it seemed uncessesarily dangerous.[/quote]
For an experienced Oly lifter like Koklyaev, I don’t expect this is really that dangerous. If anything goes wrong, he should be able to dump the bar backwards and get out without much trouble.
Now, I definitely wouldn’t try it since it’s certainly dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing.
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
I later watched Sam squat 645lbs in the Animal Cage with no hands.[/quote]
How about when Bobby Fields no hand squated and when in the hole picked up a dead squat bar. Reckless yes. Entertaining, hell ya.[/quote]
Isn’t that just an ox lift, but with a deadsquat bar instead of a straight bar?