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Hello, I am new to the boards and just recently came across Barbell Medicine on Youtube and have been watching at many Q&A’s as possible while working from my basement. I am a 41yo lifter who was in the middle of my first LP. I had been doing some Stronglifts 5x5 and was starting to transition in Starting Strength when the quarantine hit.

At home, I have a standard barbell, bench (no rack on it), trap bar, and adjustable dumbells ( I can go up to over 100lbs) I am doing my best to keep with the Starting Strength program, however, I cannot do squats or BB bench. I am able to Deadlift, BB Rows, Shoulder press, DB Bench Press, and replacing the squat with trap bar deadlifts.

My long-winded question is. At this time, is the trap bar deadlift a suitable replacement for my squat movement? or is there something better I could be doing to help strengthen my squat with the equipment that I have available?

Thank you for any help you can provide.

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While we wouldn’t recommend continuing to do LP, as there are a number of problems with that program, there are a number of exercises you can do to train the squat:

Goblet squats
Dumbbell split squats
Step ups with DB or BB
Bulgarian split squats
Bird squats
DB squats

You can also do trap bar deadlifts, deadlifts, RDL’s, SLDL, sumo deadlifts, etc. to train the deadlift pattern. Yes, the trap bar deadlift is more similar to a squat, but there are also many differences such as contraction type, ROM, etc.

We would recommend doing our Beginner Prescription/Beginner Template : https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog…-prescription/ and picking exercises you can do at present.

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Thank you for your feedback. I will take a look at your beginner template.

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Thanks for Information.