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Having made my point that all forms of the art are equally legitimate, interesting and honorable, I guess it’s time to understand how different they are.
Actually, this is just part of a much more complicated discussion, which is that each alteration done to a lift performed with a barbell produces a new lift, a new set of mechanical limitations, supercompensation profile and considering that each of the three power lifts is dealt with differently by each lifter (depending on things we have no idea about), we’re not in any easy track.
Let’s stick to just a few differences between raw and equipped lifting. Let’s restrict the discussion even more: let’s stick to squats and bench presses (deadlifts are more mysterious animals, we’ll deal with it later).
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