Safety Squats (beepers)

How much for a safety squat? Do the kids just keep taking the SS on and off or do you have a bunch of them?
Can't you just have someone else look and tell you when you're at parallel?

They are about $45 from BFS. We have one for each squat rack. We've had them for four years. Haven't lost or broken one yet, but I rule with an iron hand when it comes to order & neatness in the weight room. The nice thing about beepers is it takes all the guess work out it if a lifter is going paralle or not. No arguments.

Jimbo:

Please explain the mats or plates on the box and how it gets them to parallel. Thanks!

CUI:

According to your first sentence, apparently you thought my reply was kinda stupid. I'll try not to stoop to that level again.

I had the impression that the reply to my post was referring to box squats. My post was regarding parallel squats.

I was indeed talking about myself. I am very sorry for the mistake. I am way too lacking of knowledge to think that of someone else.
Sorry for the miscommunication.
Jimbo uses box squats to teach the parallel squat. If kids have trouble getting to parallel, he uses box squats. If necessary, they start out above parallel and work their way down.
Again sorry for the miscommunication.

CUI & Jimbo:

CUI: Sorry I misinterepted your reply! I jumped to a conclusion again.

Jimbo: I assume that you prefer box squats over parallel squats because they are more benefical, or am I missing something?

jbutler

its all in how you teach it...i don't allow a bounce of the box. I instruct to "sit BACK" & "ON" the box. Its not just touch & go. You will actually sit down and stop moving all together...and then blast up out of the position by contracting the hams and glutes and "popping" the hips forward. The sitting "onto" the box breaks the eccentric/concentric chain. Plus, by sitting "back" and not "down" you are using more hamstrings/glutes/low back/abdominas (for stability) because you can sit back farther than without a box.

you are correct in that bouncing will do damage to the spine...lots of compression on the disks just by doing a squat alone, bouncing will double the impact...i don't teach this at all.


I use regular parallel back squats as well as part of the rotation of max effort lifts, as well as front squats. All speed work however, is done on the box.

thats how I do it..

jimbo