Stan Efferding coaching a Starting Strength squat

[MWM]

This was posted a couple of days ago and already has 250k views. Stan demonstrates some really helpful coaching cues, and I think the sight of a popular Youtuber who's already quite strong changing his model of the squat might open some eyes.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Stan sent this to me Thursday, and I'm busy at a seminar in Boston. Thanks for posting.

[Matt James]

Watch Stan's bar path when he squats, it is pretty easy to see from the angle they shot the video. It's in the groove all the way down and up. A great demonstration, in my opinion.

[chrisza]

I thought he did a decent job teaching the model especially getting an experienced lifter to change lifelong habits in a short time.

[Torsten Bauer]

The fact that Stan is promoting the Squat according to the Starting Strength model is a great asset.

When teaching the vertical back angle he uses a metaphor which I haven't heard or thought about before. He calls the movmet with vertical back angle a standing leg press due to the stability it creates in the hole. When I squatted today I tried to concentrate on that during each rep and I find it a pretty helpful cue when approaching the bottom position and everything gets tightened as in an actual leg press. The cue probably doesn't work for a novice but for someone who has some experience with highbar Squats and also leg presses it might indeed be a helpful picture.

[Mark Rippetoe]

You mean "the horizontal back angle."

[Torsten Bauer]

You mean "the horizontal back angle."

Of course, Stan's shirt, promoting his Vertical Diet, must have had manipulated me.

[ldoublee1986]

You mean "the horizontal back angle."

Im so glad I wasnt the only who's grammar alarm went off there

[Mark Rippetoe]

Vocabulary. Definitions. Not grammar.

[Torsten Bauer]

I should have blamed it on the fact that I am German and English is only my second language. but unfortunately the words horizontal and vertical also exist in my first language :-)