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Spotting the squat

I've been incorporating a lot more rep work in my training recently and I quite like the change of pace
Starting to get problems from just going heavy all the time. Bench is still fine, impossible for me to go heavy enough! But deadlifting is starting to take its toll
 
Strength training is above all else, a participatory art, it's not a science, it's an activity and if you don't do it, you don't get it.
 
strong enough? said:
Interestingly, it only seems to be the monolift feds where you see the back spotter hugging the lifter. Never in the IPF, even with stupid over 400kg equipped squats. Yet there is nothing to suggest there are more spectacular spotting failures in the IPF than elsewhere.

Hands around the lifter is not specifically prohibited by the rules, but if the spotter so much as touches the lifter, it's instant red lights. In other feds, the spotters are allowed a lot more leeway. I suspect that the reason the back spotter's hands are kept much further away in the IPF is a product of not wanting to accidentally invalidating the lift and getting out of the way of the walkout from the squat stands.

I think it makes for a much better spectacle when the back spotter has their hands away.
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They are deterring the hug spot because if a squatter loses the bar off his back it could endanger the spotter. There were a couple of broken arms on spotters to help inspire this rule change. As a rule any squats from 200 up will have double side spotters too.
 
El Freako said:
They are deterring the hug spot because if a squatter loses the bar off his back it could endanger the spotter. There were a couple of broken arms on spotters to help inspire this rule change. As a rule any squats from 200 up will have double side spotters too.
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good rule
 
El Freako said:
They are deterring the hug spot because if a squatter loses the bar off his back it could endanger the spotter. There were a couple of broken arms on spotters to help inspire this rule change. As a rule any squats from 200 up will have double side spotters too.
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Thanks for that. I didn't realise this was the case, but it makes sense.
 
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