This is indeed a disturbing universe.
This is indeed a disturbing universe.
He was wearing underwear of the two ply variety.
He even insists in his article that squatting deep is essential. Damn
Here's the thing with geared squats (if that is what he does). You really can't force yourself to hit depth with lighter weight. You just go as low as the suit allows and then come back up. If you try to go lower, your form will go to crap. When it gets to a heavy enough weight, hopefully you can hit parallel. :-)
I think is weight is heavy enough there to chalk the back. That is just so the bar doesn't slip. Figure that is 6 plates on each side (hard to see) and a bigger power bar. That would be 595-600lbs.
Some of the gear is pretty wild. Stephanie has pretty much squatted in an old Frantz suit for years. She got a new Overkill suit, and she couldn't hit parallel with 600lbs. Her best raw squat to good depth was around 450 at 165lb BW. She would need 700+ just to get down there... wild! :-)
I think the issue is more that he posted it in his article as an example of a proper "deep" squat. It's not just some random training video.