Hadi Choopan’s training montage builds to a loaded squat

SportLocation Fitness Desk · 10 Oct 2026

A run of gym exercises culminates with Choopan at the bottom of a Smith-machine squat.

Hadi Choopan’s gym montage saves its most visually emphatic moment for last: a deep position under a loaded bar in the Smith machine. The squat gives the sequence a focal point after its run of upper- and lower-body exercises.

Before that closing lift, the montage shows a dumbbell raise, an EZ-bar movement, a one-arm row, leg extensions, cable flies and dumbbell presses. Each exercise has its own setup; the final squat shifts the emphasis to the legs and a loaded bar moving within the machine’s rails.

The sequence is edited as a series of hard training efforts, not a single continuous set. Its final image is specific: Choopan at the bottom of the squat, with the plates and machine framing the lift.