3 Things To Learn From John Haack

I highbar cuz it looks manlier

Should have called it hack’s hacks

He’s on the right path to be the goat. 2300 total at 206

Very high high-bar + knees far forward = good way to blow knees out. Very low low-bar + legs real wide = hard on the hips. It's best to avoid the extremes and find the posture that works best for the individual lifter, especially once they get to squatting heavy singles. The bar placement and squat technique needs accommodate the lifter's anatomy, not the other way around.

There's strong. And then there's John Haack.
This guy is an absolute weapon, the bodybuilder in the closet in me also likes how he's lean as fuk also.

A video on Dan green and Jeremy hoornstra would be fun.

My new flex is I squat the same as John Haack 😌

No raw powerlifter that squats low bar actively tries to maintain a vertical shin angle. Not sure what makes you think raw lifters squatting low bar over a career will destroy the hips anymore than squatting high bar will destroy the knees. The overwhelming majority of raw records have been set using low bar....Ray Williams, Orhii, Atwood, etc, etc

His programming is quite simple.
THIS.

I see too many people losing their mind around excessive complexity, even at amateur level.
Man, if you still are not able to deadlift 2 times your BW, you're not that complex. Your program doesn't need to be either.

Pretty disappointed that you guys are talking about movement patterns as if they are degenerative. A low bar squat isn't going to "destroy your hips" any more that a high bar squat is going to "destroy your knees" or a deadlift is going to "destroy your back" or any other nonsense regularly spewed in an Instagram comment section. Also the majority of drug tested elite powerlifters squat low bar including Pana, Russ, Ashton, etc. So the idea that a high bar squat is inherently more efficient is pretty easily proved wrong. At the end of the day it comes down to preference. If you want to squat low bar then do it. If you want to squat high bar then that's perfectly fine. I expect more from you guys

England claims Northern Ireland as an extension of them?

Yes. His longevity must also be considered . Incredible

Dont get tattoos and dont swear these are both sins

Yes.

GOAT conversations are always asinine. There's no such thing. He's the Greatest of Now. That's all that matters

They belkins

Can your programs help me reach his level?

A lot of the best squatters tend towards a slight varus knee. Haack is like that, just a touch bowlegged if anything, definitely not knock kneed.

Larry Wheels broke 3 weight classes. Also one of the best wilks in the game.

You're definitely on point with the criticism of the sit-way-back 3-ply style squat. However, in the same breath: "knees forward" & "a very applicable squat for most athletes" & "very well-built for squatting." John Haack may very well possess an anatomy where a knees-forward squat is optimal but a great number of us do not. Advocating a knees-far-forward squat...really? So instead of blowing out the athletes' hips, they blow out their knees. I've never squatted more than 6 plates to parallel and don't compete (or juice-never have) but after 30 years of squatting, I still have good knees and back. I credit my neutral, balanced stance.

I totally disagree with the low bar squats being more dangerous than high bar. It's mostly individual preference. Low bar for most people helps them handle more weight and are mostly safe. And that's what powerlifting is all about. I think this is just your weightlifting bias talking.

i love these kind of vids, pls do more john haack

Would be fun to see a similar one on Jamal Browner and Kevin Oak

I know you aren’t the biggest fan of RPE based training (neither am I), but what are your thoughts on velocity based training?

After trying it out for the novelty, it got me thinking that it could definitely be beneficial for squats and possibly pulls, especially on comp specific blocks when there’s not any need to go super heavy.

John Haack or Jamal Browner?

I noticed 21,9k->22k. Congrats! ;D

Damn, this video is helpful as fook. I was running a program with a lot of low bar squatting and sumo deadlifting and my hip just got trashed.

How is the low bar placement but with high bar knees forward mechanics?

Shots fired....."because he's not a cheater." 😂🤣

John seems to be a really Sound Lad

one of your best episodes of the year...THANKS

great video! loved this - after this the next two names are, of course, Jamal Browner & Dan Grigsby

Gleb Pisarevskiy had high hips start in 2000, but then he changed to low start in 2004 when he did 255kg clean🤔🤷‍♂️

i love the weightlifting competition reactions and you guys should also do a powerlifting competition reaction

Mikhail koklyaiev

As an Aussie watching this while eating breakfast before racing off to work I played it at 2x speed and was shocked to find I can actually understand you guys better at double speed...

1.)Russians are built different
2.)Memelords are as well
3.)Thots who doubted this random 5:9 runescape gamer may burn in hell

so I guess John Haack has an automatic visa to Sikastan? LOL

You can sneak those clips of Ilya cleaning into any video please and thank you

You guys keep saying that feet should be pointing forwards but isn't this down to how each person is built? If I contract my glutes my femurs(and subsequently my feet) angle out pretty significantly, so I have to squat and deadlift with angled feet. Is there some sort of mechanical advantage to having your feet facing forward or is it just a really general cue.

Luke richardson had the best looking powerlifting squat imo (he lifts more towards how you guys talk about) and his dealift is more quad dominant

I really think he could have been one of the greatest if he didn't go to strongman

If you want to look at a non-weightlifter/powerlifter, there's Valarie Allman. I'd like to see you break down her 120kg power clean from last year versus her 122kg power clean from this year (she's around 70kg and 6 feet tall). Also she's the reigning olympic champion in the women's discus.

I feel like Panagiotis Tarinidis would be an interesting one to look at; everything about his lifts looks suboptimal but yet he’s consistently pushing some crazy weights at only 66kg

1st thing should be - pick the right parents.

Good review

Would love a critique on Russel Orhii. He programs using RPE and works up to a top single with back-off work. I personally think its a suboptimal training style though clearly he's done well for himself...would be interested in what you lads thought.

Funniest part of the Mark Bell interview was John haack talking about training before he fed the calves bell thought he was talking about doing calf exercises and he was actually feeding calves on their dairy farm