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Originally Posted by
Mark D
Coach Rip,
In a recent SS Radio video on Youtube you discuss how to dump a squat, and whether you ought to give yourself permission to miss a rep. Under what circumstances in training (as opposed to competition) would it be acceptable to skip a rep? Suppose, for the sake of supposing, you're doing squats and you could feel your form slipping on rep 4, should you rack it after rep 4, or descend into the hole and, if the form breakdown worsens on rep 5 lower the bar to the safeties? I assume that in training you wouldn't push a rep thru a serious form breakdown and risk injury, correct?