[quote]rusty92 wrote:
[quote]Yogi wrote:
[quote]MinusTheColon wrote:
[quote]Yogi wrote:
[quote]MinusTheColon wrote:
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
And what gym does he lift at? He should have at least an 800lb back squat if he was actually capable of 650x10 front squat. Very few gyms on the planet have ‘several’ guys squatting more than that for a 1rm. Like, maybe 3? Maybe less?[/quote]
Without getting into the veracity of that guy’s lifting claims, I just wanted to contest this point, as it seems to be an old wives’ tale that gets propogated as truth. The relationship between high rep and low rep is tenuous at best, and we tend to be better at things we train specifically for.
Just my limited experience, but at least up to the mid-400s in squats, I found that when I was doing Big Beyond Belief and working in the 13-15 rep range, the difference between my 13-rep-max and my 1-rep-max was very (and somewhat disappointingly ) close. So at least in a vacuum, imo someone who is front squatting for sets of 10 won’t necessarily have a much higher 1RM if he or she doesn’t train in that rep range ever.[/quote]
front squats tend to be around 75% of a person’s back squat, assuming it actually gets trained.
Flip’s post is right on the money, IMO.[/quote]
That doesn’t address the rep-range part of my argument. Also, that 75% number almost certainly does not scale linearly (again setting aside the veracity of the numbers claimed).[/quote]
I wasn’t particularly trying to address your argument, just showing that I agreed wiht Flip that a 650lb front squatter will have an 800lb+ back squat, easily.[/quote]
Especially if that’s a front squat for 11 reps. In fact that seems so obvious I don’t know how anyone could argue against it?
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LOL thank you. I thought it was. I used 800 as an absolute low-end number, specifically to avoid argument. I’m really surprised anyone could think that there would be a person who could FRONT squat 650x10, and not be able to handle 800 on their back for just 1. That shit blows me away.