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Olympic weightlifting legend, Waldemar Baszanowski of Poland performs a 220kg back squat in training.
His coach Augustyn Dziedzic is spotting behind.
One of all-time greats. lightweight Baszanowski used split style for the clean lift and squat style in the snatch lift. Training of both back squat and splits were a part of the training process of the legendary Polish lifter.
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