Belting beltless squat variations

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Great work on the new templates. Looking forward to 3day GPP Hyper soon.
Questions below are generically directed at all BBM templates with beltless squat variations.

  1. Would it be ok to belt during a beltless variation of the squat if I have a tendency to hyper extend the lumbar when not wearing a belt (even when focused on “doing a crunch” to flatten the back)? Ie. I’m having trouble properly bracing the abs in order to keep the back flat on difficult reps. (RPE 9s) I tend to look like a banana squatting from the side doing a good morning when I don’t get adequately braced.

  2. If the beltless variations exist in part to lower the intensity in order to keep volume up and avoid excessive fatigue, should I try to approximate the workset weights that are determined during beltless warmups and workup sets?
    E.g. warmups up to RPE 7 (beltless), RPE 7 (beltless), higher RPE sets (belted.)

Thanks,
Nic

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  1. That would be fine.

  2. Eh, I don’t think this matters too much.

3

Perfect. Thanks Austin.