I think most people don't know SQUAT about squat. The bar position is just the bar position. People have gotten SO damned confused with all the different powerlifting groups and their "styles". All this sitting back versus "something else" is SO beside the point. The basic squat technique doesn't change, wherever you place the bar. The torso incline changes, the mechanics change as a result, etc...but the technique, in it's fundamentals is the same. People change their squatting styles to get the most out of their gear but that is SO beside the point. You can do low bar squats sometimes, you can do high bar...you can do something in between. That will change the angles. How low you can go, etc. Different stance widths will play into that as well.

What you are doing at this point and time, for this program is fine. People just want you to do what THEY do. It makes them feel more sercure. LOL, I personally don't tell you to do everything I do because a lot of what I do wouldn't be appropriate for you (although that has nothing to do with low bar versus high bar).

Getting the hands all wide and the elbows back is not the way most people will want to squat.

You notice how when you are ascending you start to lose that thoracic extension and the shoulders come down with the thoracic rounding? Making it that much harder to keep that lower back straight? Well, you put the shoulders BACK that's going to get worse. Put the shoulders back more you shove the chest and head forward.

Now, it aint so bad to get that thoracic rounding a bit with the heavy stuff. That's one of the reasons we work on our T-Spine flexibilty and beef up our mid and upper backs. But you want to endevour to avoid it when you can.

People really need to stop thinking that everything that powerlifters do applies to everybody. That's a new trend that has become exceptable. Yet if you think everything that applies to PRO bodybuilders applies to you you'll have forum people setting you straight, lol. You're dong what Max Strenght calls for. Hey, tell them to e-mail EC with their recommendations. He loves to own people.

No doubt, of course, that now we will see some youtube videos posted.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.