30 Days of Squat! (Day 29): Putting On a Squat Suit

Putting on a powerlifting squat suit is a huge challenge, especially if you have thick legs and hips... When my wife bought me my first suit, I tried to put it on when she left to get some groceries. She came home to find me half-conscious face down on the floor in a puddle of sweat with the squat suit barely covering half of my ass... Not a pretty sight to be sure.

Later, I bought "suit slippers", but I figured out how to put them on with less of a problem using plastic bags. This was one of the earlier videos I put up on YouTube.



Squat suits are an interesting challenge - they do add pounds to your squat, but they do affect your groove and if you are not careful they can pull you out of your groove and leave you susceptible to injury. If you want to mimic the feeling of wearing a squat suit while squatting, try squatting in a pair of tight jeans - although the feeling will be different, the "resistance" the jeans add to the eccentric, and the potential "spring" out of the hole will be similar enough to get the idea.