Squat Depth: A Deeper Look
Written by Mok “The lifter must bend the knees and lower the body until the top surface of the legs at the hip joint is lower than the top of the knees.” The wording for squat depth is the same for the majority of powerlifting federation’s rulebooks in the UK, so why is the “standard” so controversial and applied so variedly across federations and different equipment (raw, wraps, single‑ply and multi‑ply)? Everyone has been at powerlifting meets and heard “the standard is strict today” or...