SS Coach Michael Wolf on T-Nation:

[Mark Rippetoe]

https://www.t-nation.com/training/co...barbell-squats

[Matt Reynolds]

Great job Wolf!!!!

[John F Musser]

Good job, I look forward to sharing this document widely

[tertius]

It is amusing to me that many people will likely be baffled to see that this was written by a Starting Strength Coach.

Solid piece of work, Comrade Wolf!

[MBasic]

There was no talk of chains, bands, speed squats, eccentric releasers, etc.
. . .or any Rx of how much Plamza Burst post workout powder I need, or how many Gain-Train Amino pills I need to take to optimize squat trainning.

Much disappoint.

[CJ Gotcher]

That was a great read. Shared and sharing.

[Cody Miller]

Awesome job Wolf.

[Michael Wolf]

Thanks, all. It may be that you all read my training log entry on this already, but it has been a pleasant surprise that no one has posted anything digging me for the high bar/olympic lifting section. I assume you all figured out that T-Nation edited that part, and are, like me, recommending it for the rest of the article.

I wonder if anyone else read it and wondered why the rest of the piece is analysis-based and that one lone part is suddenly based on appeal to authority and history. The wording is such that, while it does say the high bar squat is obviously effective for olympic lifting (and indeed it is), it doesn't say it's certainly the most effective (because we don't know that it is, and there are many strong reasons to think that the low bar squat may be superior). So while it omits a huge part of what I originally wrote, it doesn't outright contradict it. A nuance that was important to me when I was thinking about whether I still wanted it to run.

[Anon321]

I noticed the sudden appeal to authority/history while reading it and I knew something was not right. How could this be coming from a SSC, I thought. Thanks for the clarification, and it's ridiculous that they put that in there.

[Dave Longley]

Lovely stuff. Shared.