Dear Barbell Medicine,
I’m running hypertrophy three day and really enjoying it. For the belt squats I use a dip belt hooked on the middle of a barbell and hold a strap, like Mike Tuchscherer. For the set up I can adjust the length of chain and stand on bumper plates to get a below parallel squat, or do it above parallel or 4 inches above parallel. The difference in the amount of weight I can lift with these different range of motions is huge, 100kg on my E1RM for sets of ten, 76% increase roughly. Because the chain length is fixed every rep can have a defined range of motion, do you have a preference on how deep I go?
I get that deeper is more specific to squatting, but I don’t compete in power lifting and my goal is general strength and hypertrophy. I see all kinds of depth used by people on YouTube.
Thank you for the excellent content.
Josh