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EthanYQX
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Originally Posted by bmontgomery87
You'd probably add a few hundred pounds to your squat.
Lots of lifters get 200-300 pounds from a suit.
I can't get anything out of a deadlift suit, and I'm not strong enough to get anything from a bench shirt. But my singlesply squat suit made the weights a lot easier when I'd throw it on.

Geared lifting sucks. Very painful, very time consuming. I want to make/miss a lift because of my strength, not because my technique wasn't perfect or my suit wasn't adjusted properly.
At this point, I think the only way I'd get serious about geared lifting is if I thought it'd get me a 1000lb squat and I'm light years and probably 90lbs of body weight from that. As I get older, though, if my hips don't get any better soon I'll probably order a single ply suit and do heavy work in that with the straps down. A lot of my raw-lifter friends who squat super wide train in a suit to save their hips.
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