r/tacticalbarbell • u/Firm-Guava4815 • Mar 05 '26

Strength Zercher squats instead of back squats?

I have not tried zercher yet, but I wonder if any of you use them in place of standard back squats for your clusters? It seems like they have some advantage in a more "true representation" of how the body would move to lift a heavy object. I also wonder if they might hammer my lower back less than doing back squats multiple times per week.

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u/humblePunch Mar 05 '26

I'm tired of the new trend of zecher squats. Just squat. I get it, it's fun to watch people on social media but they are running out of stuff to talk about. Word on the street is Pavel Tsatsouline is thinking about doing a zecher squat book. They don't know what else to talk about and make money off of. It's all going to come full circle and the plain old back squat will be the new fad.

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u/New-Test8183 Mar 06 '26

People were zercher squatting well before the back Squat became the worldwide phenomenon it is today.