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Research Update - Box Squat

Research Update - Box Squat

Learn what research recently discovered about box squats

Written By Jim Stoppani, PhD

Updated November 29, 2018

Research Update (12/27/10)

Get on the Box

While box squats may be an exercise you rarely, if ever do, they are used routinely by the world's best powerlifters, strongmen competitors and other strength athletes.

Since these are guys: and women, who squat FAR more weight than the average gym goer, you have to wonder why they are so popular with this hardcore crowd and why you aren't doing them. But any powerlifter can tell you that the main reason they do box squats is because they work wonders to boost your squat strength. Another reason is that they teach you how to squat properly by allowing you to sit back into the squat. Personally, I use them a lot to remove stress off of my lower back, which hampers my squat due to the fact that I have a hemivertebra (a large chunk of spine missing).