good berardi article about "fitness miths"

[Manu]

here

 

[Manu]

Actually it is by Marc McDougal and not Berardi...

 

[T Bone]

Classic; "We’ve all heard it, if you dip below parallel during a squat, your kneecap will blow off and land in the front desk girl’s mocha latte."

Good read, Thanks.

T Bone

 

[ajtomasi]

Classic; "We’ve all heard it, if you dip below parallel during a squat, your kneecap will blow off and land in the front desk girl’s mocha latte."

Good read, Thanks.

T Bone

Fucking gross, can that really happen?

 

[Fatty4You]

I have to say that i generally agree with most of the "myth" breaking. However, as of recently, i have experimented with the knee-toe line. Well, lets just say that i ususally have a lot of knee pain getting up from chairs and squatting - pretty much anything that causes knee flexsion. Now, i squat very low - pretty much until my own body stops me because i felt it put less stress on my knees than stopping at parallell. However, there was still discomfort even if it was less.

BUT, my knees DID go past the knee-toe line. However, i recently read about this knee-toe line and the other day i tried super hard not to cross it.

Well, let me just say that there was NO pain in my knee at all! It was such a beautiful moment. So, i dont know if thats a myth or not.

But, there is one thing to consider:

I AM FLAT FOOTED. This means that my foot doesn't supply great support and this causes stress. This stress gets transfered upto my knees where i it is causes stress [or at least this is what hte Chiropracter tells me]. So, maybe i am in a special place, but for me the knee-toe line seems to decrease pain in my knee.

-Fatty

 

[T Bone]

Really, I just can't see being able to go low enough and not cross the line or be able to stop from falling on my ass while trying.

Fucking gross, can that really happen?

Yep, happend to my friend...


T Bone

 

[Tiervexx]

Yep, happend to my friend... T Bone

MINE TOO! this is why you never go below parrellel!


his knee caps EXPLODED with so much force that the shock wave killed the hearing in my right ear and the poor fool's cafes were totaly seperated from the upper thigh!

lisen to those new-lady fitness trainers and high school strength coaches and never go below 90 degress.

in fact i have even heard of peole that have built +15 inch thighs just using 4" ROM squats!! and i even meet one towering behemoth at my school who has +36" thighs at ONLY 58% bf!!(no joke) and he only goes down about 5" on squats!