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Originally Posted by red_sir
More Reasons For Wearing A Belt | 70's Big
Good read about belts. The author actually argues that training with a belt will strengthen your trunk more than training beltless. I am inclined to agree with him from personal experience
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I definitely see his point..
what I can't stand, are guys that wear a belt without having even established proper squat form... huge butt wink, knees past toes, collapsed chest, loose back, etc... which make up the majority of folks i see at the gym unfortunately. i know, because i used to be one of those guys lol...
alot of these guys
learn along the way as they squat with thick belts
for me, one of the best ways to learn the squat properly has been doing super light weight and just getting the form down w/o a belt. At this point, my goal isn't even to get stronger, it's to establish that proper form..
that said, i think my form has improved a bit over the last month or so, so I'm considering the switch over to squatting with a belt soon.
it's definitely a technique/specificity thing. if you train with a belt, your body will adapt to traininng with a belt. if you train without a belt, your body will adapt to training without a belt. on that note, that a trained belted squatter has the potential to squat more than a trained beltless squatter...