How To Box Squat (Our Form vs Westside Barbell) + Programming

Learn correct box squat form (don’t rock), programming, when & why to box squat, & the lift’s history from Westside Barbell. This supplemental squat exercise stresses the hips-not knees-helping you stay in your hips in a low bar squat and stressing your hamstrings, adductors, & glutes over your quadriceps muscles. GET STARTED with one-on-one online coaching FOR FREE! Get your FIRST MONTH FREE on all strength and nutrition coaching plans. No discount code needed and includes a 10-day, no-obligation trial. The box squat is well-known because of Louie Simmons and the lifters of Westside Barbell. Louie took it from the original Westside and brought it to the more famous Westside in Columbus, OH. Westside teaches a rocking box squat where the lifter sits on the box, rocks back and then forward, and then uses that momentum to come up off the box and complete the lift. We differ from Westside in how we perform the box squat. Correct form in our book removes the rocking motion. We teac