What is your high bar : low bar squat ratio?
Mine is
450 : ??
Actually i’m switching to low bar the last two months and haven’t maxed yet but curious to know your ratios
My best low bar without wraps was 425. When I first tried high bar (nearly two months ago) even 315 was a struggle. Now that I’ve trained high bar a little bit I hit 385, but I haven’t tried low bar again since I started doing my squats high bar.
In my experience and the experience of people I’ve trained around, low bar doesn’t build your high bar very well, but high bar will build your low bar. All you need to do is get comfortable with the low bar form. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were approaching 5 plates very soon if you put a little time into low bar squatting.
So I would assume it’s going to depend on whether the person primarily is a high bar or low bar squatter. Us guys who started low bar and have always done that could potentially be 100lbs down going high bar. Someone like you who has always done high bar I would think you could at least get 25lbs out of it with a little practice. With any luck maybe more.
How has it felt to you thus far?
[quote]csulli wrote:
My best low bar without wraps was 425. When I first tried high bar (nearly two months ago) even 315 was a struggle. Now that I’ve trained high bar a little bit I hit 385, but I haven’t tried low bar again since I started doing my squats high bar.
In my experience and the experience of people I’ve trained around, low bar doesn’t build your high bar very well, but high bar will build your low bar. All you need to do is get comfortable with the low bar form. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were approaching 5 plates very soon if you put a little time into low bar squatting.
So I would assume it’s going to depend on whether the person primarily is a high bar or low bar squatter. Us guys who started low bar and have always done that could potentially be 100lbs down going high bar. Someone like you who has always done high bar I would think you could at least get 25lbs out of it with a little practice. With any luck maybe more.
How has it felt to you thus far?[/quote]
I feel more explosive coming up from the hole but i’m leaning forward sometimes and i’m working on keeping my chest up more and i can’t hit depth easily like high bar.
If I had to guess based on what you just said, I’d say to get the most out of low-bar if you improved your shoulder/thoracic mobility for your chest caving, got your hips and groins real limber and possibly some hip abduction activation for getting depth, and probably more ham and low-back strength and muscle. Just be sure to listen to your hips and shoulders if you start low-bar squatting frequently and respond appropriately.
As far as your OP, that’s hard to say since the last time I max high barred was so many months ago, but it was 405, and 8 weeks later I got a 455 low bar. I doubt I got more than 10-20lbs from just getting my body stronger so I’m thinking that 30-40 of those lbs were from the transition.
Those numbers are getting me more and more motivated!
665 high bar
Does the high bar squat refer to the Olympic squat? IE full depth below parallel? Or a high bar half depth squat akin to a bodybuilding style squat?
I only do a little over 300 full depth high bar squats for about 3 reps. I am not sure what that would be for a low bar power squat.
The number may not be much higher depending on the lifter’s core strength. It looks like most power lifters miss the rep when they lose their leverage in the mid point and start hunching over despite the legs still driving upward. This may be negated with the momentum coming out of a full depth squat.
I’ve done 385 Olympic style, no belt, no wraps, and 425 hybrid for a triple with wraps, no belt. I never squat true low bar, it feels unstable.
300:330 … Low bar is much better for my build. I can hit depth much more easily, and feels much more comfortable. If low bar is the better option , like in my case, is there any reason to switch back? Once I switched, I felt like low bar was made for my body type lol.
385 (A2G): 500 (parallel with wraps)