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Home » chad vaughn » Chad Vaughn on the Squat Part 1 + Common Beginner Faults

Chad Vaughn on the Squat Part 1 + Common Beginner Faults

August 15, 2012 By Gregor Winter

Chad Vaughn goes over the the basics of & reasons for the (Olympic style – as low as you can, as upright as you can be) squat. Show that to people saying that you shouldn’t squat below parallel.

Non Evans would approve that DSP.

Update: Part 2 here & Part 3 here.

In another videos he discusses proper set-up and common faults when performing the Olympic lifts.

  • stance, setting back – flare knees out, to set hips down
  • breathing, take a deep breath before you go

Filed Under: chad vaughn, instruction, squat, videos, weightlifting

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Comments

  1. finlifter says

    August 15, 2012 at 19:07

    LOL at that DSP reference. awesome clip btw!

  2. Adam says

    August 15, 2012 at 20:36

    Those are the smallest calfs I’ve ever seen in my life

    • GregorATG says

      August 15, 2012 at 22:27

      You haven’t seen mine then.

      But Chad makes up for this with his huge quads.

    • Benjamin Hsu says

      August 16, 2012 at 05:53

      I was gonna make a comment on that too. There seems to be a pretty significant size difference between his left and right calf. But that doesn’t take away how very informative these videos are. I will definitely be forwarding this page to a bunch of my lifting buddies.

    • finlifter says

      August 16, 2012 at 12:03

      fyi the calf thing is due to having corrective surgery on that leg, guy was brn with a club foot.

    • finlifter says

      August 16, 2012 at 12:05

      this is due to having had corrective surgery on that leg, dude was born with a club foot

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