IronMind SUPER SQUATS Hip Belt for Belt Squats - Spine-Friendly Weightlifting Belt for Squats, Deadlifts & Leg Workouts - Reduce Lower Back Strain for Home & Gym Training

In my opinion and experience this is the the very best tool available for hip belt squats. Yes it’s more expensive. However it is extremely high quality and will last forever. It also is the most versatile as it allows you to perform the most variations of hip belt squats (and is only one designed and equipped to perform them with a barbell attached beneath you which is the way John Mccallum prescribed them in his timeless Keys To Progress writings, and is the best way to really place the focus on the quads), it can also be rigged up to a loading pin or a hip belt squat machine (while I do have access to one I find the freestanding kind to be superior overall and can perform them at home) and makes for a great heavy duty dip/chin belt and low-tech heavy calf training device too as the description says. It also comes with a lil booklet discussing hip belt squats in depth and offers a full body routine based around them similar to the one found in Super Squats, and includes a packet with easy to follow instructions and pics on how to use it. It appears a lil complicated at first glance but is in fact pretty simple once you follow the steps and get the hang of it. The movement is a lil awkward at first too. Use a power rack upright or something like that to help with balance at first or to use for facilitating forced reps etc if desired (you can truly take a set of squats to failure using this). Its a unique and amazing thigh exercise that you have to try and get the hang of to truly appreciate. Works really well in tandem with straight leg or Romanian deadlifts. Can also be used as a pre or post exhaust movement for back squats. Its valuable for working around back or upper body injury or soreness and still giving your lower body a quality squat workout.The freestanding version of hip belt squats does indeed build useful athletic strength and stabilization as well (more so than machine variety), you can’t go wrong with this device for this purpose