At my gym tonight... "The Squatters"

[bignate73]

they are in every gym. the lurk in their wife beaters and huge shorts. they have frosted hair, and wear airwalks barely laced up (clunky ones at that) to squat in. some have weight belts, some have lifting gloves. they take forever on whatever piece of equipment they use, and do fifty million sets.

its all good, my girlfriend makes them look like women when she outlifts them with good form.

touche!

 

[ConstantChange]

I have a few of those guys at my gym too. The very few that attempt to squat have mastered this new 5" ROM technique you speak of.

I had a somewhat different situation happen to me the other day. The squat rack is only a few feet from the smith machine in my gym. Well....I was squatting 225 in the squat rack. For me, that is really heavy when I go as low as I can, so I only got a few reps. A 160lb Highschool Hero loads up the smith with what he thinks is 225 and begins to bust off about 8 5" ROM reps. Then he looks towards me to make sure I know how much stronger he is than me.

 

[Thaibox]

Over the last couple of years at my gym, aside from my buddies and I, there has been ONE other guy that I've seen go to the floor. Yes, only one. Around 4 or 5 go to parallel. Everyone else uses this 5"ROM squat. Not to mention that 90% of people that do these lame-ass squats use the smith machine.

 

[bignate73]

there has been ONE other guy that I've seen go to the floor.

ive seen a few go to the floor.....when they tried to go deeper than the 5in. protocol. pinned like the tail on a donkey.

hee hee

 

[JOKER47]

No one I know, except my wife, even knows what "ass-to-floor" even means.


Joker

 

[HulkRow]

No one I know, except my wife, even knows what "ass-to-floor" even means.


Joker

squating like that causes damage to the knees, you wont feel it now but in 20 years it will be painful to walk, i suggest you stick to doing half squats, they are alot safer and theres no risk of injury.

its a proven fact , We dont need studies to back it up.

 

[Lord_Suston]

This is not a new crave but more of a lazy one... I mean who are these kids fooling. Shit I am more impressed with someone doing 135 atf than 400 for 5". I really feel bad when these kids try to go all the way down and bottom out while my girl is going atf with the same amount of weight....

 

[needsize]

squating like that causes damage to the knees, you wont feel it now but in 20 years it will be painful to walk, i suggest you stick to doing half squats, they are alot safer and theres no risk of injury.

its a proven fact , We dont need studies to back it up.

Actually I think the school of thought has started to change on that...I recently saw a study, I really should have copied it or something, but the study was showing that there was actually more shearing force on the knees when the lifter reversed the movement at parallel as opposed to the bottom, as its the hips that pick up the strain at that point

 

[zackdarnell]

squating like that causes damage to the knees, you wont feel it now but in 20 years it will be painful to walk, i suggest you stick to doing half squats, they are alot safer and theres no risk of injury.

its a proven fact , We dont need studies to back it up.

I have to disagree here. Like needsize said, there is more strass on the knees when you reverse early. If you have any studies, I would like to see them.

 

[bignate73]

Actually I think the school of thought has started to change on that...I recently saw a study, I really should have copied it or something, but the study was showing that there was actually more shearing force on the knees when the lifter reversed the movement at parallel as opposed to the bottom, as its the hips that pick up the strain at that point

yup!

there is actually more strain reversing at parallel on the patellar tendon because it is basically the sticking point or the point where the lever is at peak torque.