How much can you squat?

[chuck48]

Hey bar room

I put a 45 and a 10 in my bookbag to squat. So there.
lol thats funnyshit

 

[pumpgirl]

i did 315 for a single three weeks ago......backed out of rack....butt to heels all the way. it felt like my spine was bending...i didn't like that part of it.

 

[GaryWary]

I squat 1505--remember genarr, this is the internet

Pah! Only 1505? My 90 year old gran can do that! Yes this is the internet...

 

[GaryWary]

Questions like this are worthless unless you see someone's FORM.

I see guys at my gym throw 3-4 plates on a side, then proceed to drop down like 6 inches - and they call that a squat. What BS.

To me, if your thighs do not at LEAST go parallel to the floor, you have not gone low enough.

But most guys get SO focussed on how much IRON is on the bar (instead of doing the movement correctly) that they do half-assed squats. Same with bench presses, curls, cable rows, etc. Its sad.

I do full sets of squats with only 275 on the bar. Not a lot - right? But I know guys that will put like 400-500 on the bar and could never do my 275 and drop as low as I do.

Plus, I have been blessed with large legs, I dont work them too much becuase if I do, they get oput of proportion to the rest of me.

Anyway, its not just about "how much iron". Form and the speed of the movement have a tremendous effect.

My old university had this old Universal Squat machine.. Now I know some of you are going to say that a squat machine must be crap.. It was an excellent machine. The shoulder pads allowed you to shuffle forwards and back and alter foot position quite easily. I felt that it gave me plenty of free movement (not like the overly restricteveness of the Smiths machine).. I got to squat 140kg with that. The machine had the capacity for extra weight - it had 2 weight stack on it, together with a included stack of around 100kg). That was my best. Used to do 80 full range for reps on the regular un-assisted squat. About the same as my bench press now (80kg). I just never got happy with squatting. My knees fucking ache sometimes. I now only do leg press. And even there I have only got to 12 x 20 for deepest reps I can extract from the machine's adjustable geometery settings. I have done a lot of bicycling in the past, maybe this is it.. or my 34inseam at 6ft teel are a responsible for my squatting failure. But my legs are still a bit lagging. 25.25 largest part. Pitiful.

 

[The_Eviscerator]

Hit 575 for 2 before Christmas. At the time I weighed 223 pounds. My knee hasn't been right since...lol

 

[JunkYardDogg24]

I am 5'6'' 192 and can do 290 6 reps. I am off cycle. My next shoukd let me grab about 360

 

[strider364]

I was hitting 405 for three, with a tight stance, but I blew my acl and can't do shit for legs right now.