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Psssh...what a load of BS regurgitated from a bunch of eMags and muscle-books!!!
In terms of Functionality, Front Squats >>>>> Back Squats.
You don't HAVE to do a damn exercise in the world. You have the freedom to choose whichever exercise pertains to you goals.
I always find it funny how people get attached to exercises and set-rep schemes and other inconsequential shit. All these things: rest intervals, sets, reps, exercises, etc are ALL just tools. You don't see a carpenter fall in love with a hammer and restrict himself to using just that hammer, now do you? How retarded would that be?
Same principle....back squats are also a tool.
Josh: if you want to do Fronts thats fine. But I think this whole trip you're on with doing higher reps for these big lifts is silly because you aren't strong enough to benefit from that. I mean come on...you got a bunch of kids cheering you on doing back squats with 135 lbs? Dude...really? 135 lbs?
I understand you want to do some hypertrophy work. We are all vain to some extent - some more than others. I don't fault you for that. But the way you are going about fulfilling these new goals is not going to help you.
While we're on the subject: are you doing anything in terms of your diet? Have you adopted a good dieting regiment? Without the right food you aren't gonna get very far in these aesthetic goals you have set for yourself.
I'd just do the strength work for the key lifts and then do higher reps for everything else you have. Pull-ups, rows, presses, etc etc...all that stuff: more reps, shorter rest periods, more supersets and a couple of isolation exercises thrown in at the end of each workout in a superset fashion. Hell, for these isolation exercises you could go to failure and rest-pause them as well. Lots of options. But for the big 4-5 lifts that you have, doing this high rep stuff at your strength level is counter productive.
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