Was checking out your blog and your head position experiment. I'm hardly anyone to speak on your squatting, and I do understand it is an experiment, but I can only see as the weights get heavier, and like most we hit that mid-point and need to drive through, the head down, more than likely, will cause you to round over and get forward. Also, will probably keep your hips higher on descent. I'm sure it can work for some, or I just may be way off on this.

Anyway, is there a link to the JM Press or maybe a video. I am somewhat familiar with it, as a skullcrusher variation with a straight bar. Maybe you could just explain the difference and why one might be preferred based on a specific weakness.

Thanks, Brian

I've tried tooling around YouTube for a good J.M. Press video, but have yet to really find a good one.  Maybe someone else will have more luck.

Regarding my squatting...
We'll see.  To be honest, the head down position is much more comfortable.  I'm not recommending it yet -- we'll see how it goes in the days and weeks to follow.  But so far, it feels pretty good.  I can say on the work I did today, it was some of the best technical squatting I've done in a long time.  But that was with bands and chains, so did that have an effect?  Maybe.  I'll see as things progress.  I'm not going to be hasty to make a decision.

Mark Rippetoe is very adamant about the whole neutral head position thing, but I never really liked it.

Here are some JM Press videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09q-wob818M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck2KpzhIYY8

It seems that there are many variations of this exercise. Here is a link to a video by the inventor of the exercise, JM Blakely, which I found to be most helpful.

 http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/5175

Thanks Mark, good find, that was very detailed.

I've been doing my JM's like this, and I've seen good results:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cth9ENco_9I&feature=player_embedded#!