Don't Bail On Your Squats - How to set the bar on the pins if you get stuck with Mark Rippetoe
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2020
- Mark Rippetoe describes the proper way to set the bar on the pins in the rare and unlikely event that you get stuck under a squat rep.
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I don't think I'm ever going to bail on a squat simply out of fear that Mark will materialize right there in my rack, not say anything, but give me the look of frustrated disappointment. I can't deal with that emotional destruction.
Just staring at you silently with his finger pointing at you
Hip drive
Hahahaha 😂😂😂😂
This guy is a such character lol He like the Gym Teacher at the High School that hits on high school girls but is like 50 years old.
@@Turnpost2552 Lol what
Man, needed to hear that today. Not just because of lifting, but just life in general.
I like your post. It's very motivating as well. Life is tough like squats, let's grind it out and achieve what we set forth to achieve.
Good comment
Pretty sure Rip’s index finger just cracked my phone screen.
Exactly. That finger can also be carried by a B-1 bomber, as a last resort.
😊 TV
This isn't a squat video, this is a life video.
"When Wichita Falls is ashes, then you have my permission to bail."
Brilliant!
Why do I feel like i'm getting scolded by my dad?
He's pointing at me the way I point at my kids when I lecture them.
'Cause
I'm just 2 years younger than Mark rippetoe but he does remind me of my father. I love the starting strength method.
The best lecture on strength training anyone could ever hear. Listen to this man.
this is better than "Ask not what your country can do for you .... " Bloody motivational! Thanks Rip
Uncle Ripp dishing out straight GOLD. This man know some shit.
This is an awesome video. Definitely a speech I needed to hear today. Maybe yesterday lol.
Today I had my first failure in the squat rack. I was properly set up and I set the bar down on the pins safely. I'm 46 and I've been squatting for 5 months now, still focusing on form but trying to increase the weight every time out. Last week I blew away my PR and in reflection I decided I wasn't getting low enough into those squats. So today I was focusing on depth, then I got stuck on rep 5. It really surprised me. After watching this video I realize that I didn't grind on it enough. So lesson learned... I'll be ready next time! Good pep talk/lecture!
I have been low bar squatting without a rack. The fear of pain and gruesome death makes me skip reps I'm not confident in. I really do need a rack
Ditto, (I have a simple pedestal style squat rack) although I will grind if I'm mildly confident. Also do have a proper rack neatly packaged away for the past year, cause I'm too lazy to put it together. Now I just need to be scared enough to conquer the laziness.
@@msn769 Lol let's just pray that Rippetoe doesn't end up reading these comments on his show. ;)
Brother , thank you for your honesty . You without a doubt NEED a power rack . It will save your life ...especially bench presses ...save your money 💰 and get a titan if that’s all you can afford ...
Yeah man, the rack is a must. I have the Rogue with the seat belt straps. 100% confidence of safety on every rep. If I miss, I just sit down a few more inches and I'm out.
Fitness reality rack $220 or craigslist
That’s life advice. I like it.
This message is so important to people in general.
Man did I need to see this today. Getting to the end of an intermediate template and squatting 405+ for the first time. Video says I can go higher, head says at 57 years old don’t get crazy.
Good work man
Byron Durham 405+ at 57! Kick ass Byron
Dont let your age scare you. If you built up your body to lift that weight(no ego lifting) you deserve to lift it. You can't think about getting hurt. Again you earned that strength, your body can handle it. Just don't lift stupid. Don't approach the weight with the thought...ok hopefully this is successful and I don't get hurt. That's the worst way to lift. Lift with CONFIDENCE! I'm 44 years old I know not as old as you, however this advice comes from Odd Haugen. Look him up if you don't know him. He still going strong at 70 years old.
I'm with you. I'm 54, just starting my week of 430x5 and my head is saying do it tomorrow. But I'm reminded of the saying, " Tomorrow never comes!". I will be squatting 430 this evening.
You squat 405+ on 57 years old intermediate like I squat 405+ and i started yesterday, bullshiter.
Thanks once again Mr. Rippetoe. I appreciate and use your acumen of weights and training. Be well.
Darn great video!! My son had to bail on a set when he lost his balance a little one day so he did exactly as described here. We lifted the bar back up without dropping the weight down he went right back under and did the entire set. I agree with showing bench press as well.
I'm nervous because in two days, I will have to test my new 1RM after a 12 week training cycle.
I have a bit of PTSD from back squats as 5 years ago I avulsed my adductor longus from my pelvis on a weight that was nowhere near my Max. But it stuck with me and I have been afraid to go above 180 kg ever since and bail myself because I am deathly afraid of injury.
You gave me the hard words I needed to hear. Thank you. It hit me right in the truth zone.
Thanks for the lesson. Subbed and liked!
One of the best motivational speakers especially last podcast
The advice in this video can be applied to many things in life
Excellent advice
great speech, lifting is more than just building strength!
Exactly. A person will never know if they don’t try! True in the gym and in life!
I'm the only person in my gym who sets the safety bars in the power rack for my squats, everyone else just ignores them.
Great stuff Rip
Well said, Man!! 👍
A good bit of advice I got from an SS coach was that a grind might take several seconds- more than 10 or 12. Under the bar that's an eternity.
wow, thanks for posting that!
A grind might also take 6 seconds then the next rep will be failure.
Good stuff.
Hi from NewZealand.
Awesome advice, especially the last 1min of the video,Im actually gonna look into this, cheers mate.
I was raised in Amarillo, Tx and Rip sounds like EVERY coach I ever had in Jr & High School. 'If you give yourself permission using some bullshit like RPE to judge that next rep will not be doable...'
All I here is Coach West and Coach Huey telling me this...
Good Stuff Ripp
I follow Starting strength methodology. It is the best
Rip is such a bad ass. I love this. People need to watch this.
This is more than barbell training... it’s a philosophy for life.
Haha needed this, I got stuck on 275 for squats and was afraid of pushing it beyond. It’s not much but I did 280 😬
Your Empire needs you, TROOPERS FORWARD
Believe in yourself no matter what
The 10 people who disliked this video are those who bail on leg day.
Leg press people.
MARKS BEST VIDEO
Life advice right there....
How do I bail on my extension cord roll-ups? Gotta hit the can to bear down on a heavy load.
Thank you Sir!
You have changed my training.
I have been training for three years now and shifted to your App four weeks ago. My squat went up 20kg/44lb. Every time I wasn't sure, whether I could make all three working sets. Every time I could. Keep it up, Sir!
I totally agree with rip you have to know what hard feels like before you bale, that goes for life to.
When you bail "you have given yourself permission to not try harder." I've never bailed on a squat, never plan to. But this quote is going on the wall as a reminder anyway.
About to go squat, just had to watch this beforehand.
i think a bigger problem with bumper plates is people feeling like they can attempt stuff that is totally unrealistic, knowing they can just dump it on the floor
Any time a weight scares me or a set gets too hard and I don't want to do it, I just hear Rip in my head saying, "quit being a pussy"
Flash back to the old man chewing on my ass “ bail sounds like fail to me “ no school like old school.
Great!
I love Mark's cadence, and the video's lack of jump-cuts every 15 seconds.
Shit, I wish I had known this guy's work when I was younger.
Rip: “This is training. This isn’t fucking around.”
UA-cam: *demonitization intensifies
"If you give yourself permission using some bullshit like RPE to judge that the next rep will not be doable..."
Ouch! :))
That's not how RPE works, tho
@@jjsalas Ye it is. RPE programming isn't based around solid numbers, but your subjective perception of the intensity. It won't say x kg for y reps, it will say workout at rpe 8, which means do sets at a combined volume and intensity where you'll "feel" like you have 2 reps left.
Be good to see Rip demonstrate heavy squat and deadlift.
What i learned from this video: don't f**** around with Rip's equipment.
The rack looks awsome
This same set up should work for the bench press, correct?
Thank you for this. Rather break my ego than my neck
I'm curious about what Rip's training program is
"If you give yourself permission using some bullshit like RPE to judge that the next rep will not be doable..."
Best advice ever!!!
Its not bullshit if you know what youre doing. If you don’t then I can see where rip is coming from. If you know what you are capable of you know what the rep before failure feels like and you can then say that’s an RPE 9.5 to an rpe 10. And rpe 10 if it was an extreme grinder to the point where an extra pound of weight would cause failure, and rpe 9.5 if you could probably not have gotten another rep but could have probably added a pound to the bar
He's right.
Yes sir.
Dang I came here to listen to him talk about pin height and got so much more. Thank you Mark. I'll think of this video next time I even think about NOT attempting that 6th or 7th or higher rep.
We need more Rip. Get the clone machine ready
I got trapped under the bar for the first time ever in squat last month. I had a bad spotter who was dicking off on candy crush instead of spotting and my dumb rear end went up 10 lbs instead of 5 lbs when I knew I shouldn't have. Had to let it roll off my back. Wouldn't reccomend. Great video.
Also have some walmart squat stands instead of a proper power rack because I've misprioritized my life.
@ooOmegAaa gf
@@johnnycharles702 fire her! 😅
I really hope mark has a son. The values he instills in me, as a stranger and fill grown man is surprising.
What's with the giant fishing lure on the back wall?
Everything's bigger in Texas
"Don't do that on my gym". Got it.
discipline is doing something you hate, but doing it like you love it
I been lifting for 5 months now... Love doing squats... But after watching this video I learned I need to grind more.
@@genxer74how about after 2 years?
@@Francesco-cj3oi still doing them. Still pushing! It’s been a journey:)
Ohhh Ok R E S P E CT, golden rule,thanks Sir!😀
I want to shake this big mens hand . Thank you for your content
Now that was an epic rant on how to grind harder. But shit happens, i was'nt a lifter, i was a boxer and just tipped my toe into lifting waters at my time. If i knew back then what i know now, i would've done different, but that's spilled milk. So i learned that stuff not from a Coach, but from your blue book four years ago, and i was going to my novice progression, a very inexperienced lifter, and somehow i lost balance, i think i didnt squeeze my abs hard enough and my trunk was'nt rigid, man was i glad i figured that out in the beforehand.
6:15 If you haven't failed you haven't even tried. How ive attacked my PR's lately. Broke axle press, DL, and squat by quite a lot simply because i was too worried to fail.
Dammit why does this come out the very next day after 4 reps per set. He knows too much
In my opinion, if you've set the safety pins at the right height then you do not need a spotter. If you cannot complete a rep, you simply set the bar -- not drop it -- on the pins.
If you're not a little scared before a set, then the bar's not heavy enough.
Is this just as safe with high bar squat? Given the fact that you will be more upright.
wouterpop1 high bar or low bar is the same for me. If I truly can’t complete a rep, I lower back into the bottom of the squat and let the bar slide off my back as I step out from under it. With the pins set right it only falls an inch or two. I know this is contrary to what Rip says in the video, but DO WHAT FEELS BEST FOR YOU. Your safety is far more important than some bent fucking pins.
Failed my PR squat this morning, retried it and got it the 2nd time, think the failure was due to setup. Disheartening though, and concerned on knee stress due to it.
I've been pondering this same thing, giving myself permission to bail on the hard work of lifting, to not finish that last rep. This video is what I needed to see. "Grind through shit I'd rather not do."
How do you really feel about it, Rip?
Don't come in my gym and bend my bars. LMFAO🤣🤣
I have all my own equipment and I bailed in my rack a lot of times with 400lb on the bar and nothing ever bent. I made my own rack out of 1/2 steel so itll never break or bend. As for the bar.... you can get a decent one for like $300 they're pretty cheap so I really dont care. Then again I'm also well off with money lol
That’s how I always bail if I’m squatting inside a rack
Hmmm. Been doing rpe based programing for a while now. My numbers keep going up. So maybe rpe actually works when programmed right.
What's the story with that giant Rat'L'Trap on the back wall?
Are you on TRT, Rip?
People who disliked this video are people who do leg extensions as their main exercise
Not coming to the gym anf fu*king around. 2:20 Yeah I'm guilty of that sometimes 😂
If only my commercial gym had power racks...
The racks there make you lift the weight outside the cage and the safety brackets are too short for my taste unless I strictly tried to good morning the bar as Mark explained, hmmm.
6:14 That's not how RPE is meant to be used; it's not a mid-set assessment of how many more reps you could do-it's used to determine weight for work sets based on warm-ups and training history, and to assess a set _after_ it's been completed to help guide training. Nonetheless, I agree with Rip on the importance of learning how to grind and not giving up on reps for fear of failure.
stop it. get some help.
Was about to comment this. RPE is not used mid-session to change the weight or rep scheme but before the session and during warmups to determine working weight. If RPE is used properly, people wouldn't even be worried about "grinding reps" because they'll probably be more confident that they can do something that calculations show they're capable of.
Yeah RPE is fine. It gives u an idea of ur estimated 1 rep max, and then after a block of training you can test that... And you have data. So it's possible to apply the grind to these singles and get good data. Rpe allows u to manage fatigue and load so u don't get injured from maximum effort week in week out.
@@swiftla spot on
Great! An 11 minute video about how to use the pins!
wow you missed a lot or didn't watch it at all.
Need a Life's Advice book by Rip. He's gold in an age of shit.
6:07 What do you tink about that, FEIGENBAUM?!
I cant believe a video has to be made about this
37% of Americans believe the Coronavirus can be contracted by drinking contaminated Corona beer.
The level of expectation we have for the vast majority of people should be set very low. And then set a few levels lower.
It was made because it is a common question sent in to us. Yes, actually.
@@jeremymenning56 Fake news. That is the percentage who are not interested in drinking Corona beer. Not related to Coronachan.
@@startingstrength Who at starting strength is writing the words "corona chan".. what are u gonna do when rip sees this
@@startingstrength lol corona chan
If you're on your fifth rep and you take it down and push it back up and rack it. You don't have data if you'll ever be able to do the sixth rep. And so on.
Rip: Remember when you joined my gym I said never bail a squat by dropping the bar?
Newb: Yes but I.....
Rip: HIT THE FUCKIN ROAD!
You make it sound like everyone is supposed to go to failure on every set, but I doubt that's the case. So that leads me to this question, how often should a person perform a "grinder" rep in a set (assuming the grinder is probably your last rep before you won't be able to complete another rep)?
if you do not fail, you are not even trying (Denzel Washington)
Do not let the fact that bailing from under a squat is a dumb thing to do, distract you from the fact that Rip can barely see your tee-tee.
I wonder if the Engineers from Prometheus ever bail on squats.
This is like Yoda telling you that you can lift it.
Sure but these people have like inches of depth left, what if you go atg?
omg... this is the best lol