When you squat

[TheGame2001]

Even if it hurts your feelings because you have to drop weight do it. But come one, squat deep. Go below parallel. Deep. Guarantee you will develop your legs more going below parallel with 225 than you will going parallel with 405.

Bam!

 

[gymtime]

Agreed. I recently swallowed my pride and did this. Cut my weight in half, but the gains are very noticeable, even after only three weeks. I get a little of that pride back however, knowing that my legs are bigger than most of the guys who barely bend their knees with 495 on the bar.

 

[TheGame2001]

...

You know its true after you do it the first time because your damn legs are going to hurt twice as bad.......pain don't lie.

 

[enrage]

there was a guy in my gym who was doing squats one day. the guy is huge but he lacks good form on his lifts(he relys on 10 dbol tabs a day for growth) anyway he was at the squat rack with 405 on there and was struttin around like he was the shit. I watched him move that bar about 1-2 inches. Total waste.

He's one of those guys that everyone has at their gym. Huge with a bloated roid gut.

 

[Travbedaman]

I agree 110% I love it when I go to the squat rack and someone is on the rack next to me squating big weight, yet their range of motion is about 3cm. I get up there and squat ass to grass and put that person to shame.

Tonight was leg night, after three sets I was limping a little and a regular (who thinks he is a hard ass) says "what`s wrong with you?" I point to the squat rack and his reply is "you only doing 225?" WTF? I politely informed the dumbass that it`s not how much weight you move, it`s how you move it.

What`s even worse, I have had many people come up to me and say stuff like..."you know you really shouldn`t go below parallel, it`s bad for your knees." Yeah whatever, that`s just what people with chicken legs say.

 

[needsize]

Any excuse for not going ass to the floor is exactly that, an excuse!

 

[DaCypher]

Anyone else have ACL surgery (or any other knee surgery for that matter)? I'm only asking because my doctor told me I would probably never be able to do squats again after the surgery without a great deal of pain. However, I have no problem squatting to parallel. I know that going below parallel does stress the knees a bit more. I'm curious if anyone has had any experience with this.

 

[the People's Champ]

Re: ...

You know its true after you do it the first time because your damn legs are going to hurt twice as bad.......pain don't lie.

true

 

[endpoint]

ass 2 da grass

mofo

 

[Belial]

Any excuse for not going ass to the floor is exactly that, an excuse!

Lack of proper hip flexibility?

(I go below parallel, so don't give me that. But wide stance ATF just doesn't happen, even without a load on my back)