How much do you Squat?

[bkc]

I never have been a consistant weight lifter for any considerable amount of time and legs least of all but at my best I was using 405lbs. for sets. I'll probably never go over 315lbs. anymore just for safety. I still grow like crazy so weight isn't everything... Glad to see some people actually take pride in leg training. That's a rare quality...

 

[mm2510]

If you go to www.undergroundstrength.com...you can get vol4 from sebastian and see my 1150 and 1200 if I knew how to post video I would do it for you

 

[mm2510]

Mike,
you got any new vids to post of you squatting? i remember a while back you posted some vids of you squatting 1175 over on the PL forum. unbelievable. you are the man. keep up the pushing that number higher and higher.

Thank you for the compliment!

 

[Warrior57]

i usually will do 4 sets of 10 with my first three of 385, but then go up to 405 for 10. i could do more but i am doing it safely. i have been working with a personal trainer for football these last three weeks and he wanted me to go parallel. i had to drop much weight. I was going down pretty far anyway. The heighth of a flat bench. i use right now anywhere from 185 to 225 for 3 x 8. Its not heavy by any means but i have to get use to it of course.

 

[mm2510]

Does anyone know how I can post a video or what I need to do so..

 

[Illuminati]

Does anyone know how I can post a video or what I need to do so..

not sure big man. i went to that site you gave me a link to, and found your 1200lb squat. i downloaded the vid. very impressive.

 

[BodybuildingUniverse]

i use right now anywhere from 185 to 225 for 3 x 8. Its not heavy by any means but i have to get use to it of course.

So am I reading it right, you went from 405x10 to 225x8 when you started squatting parallel? Not trying to slam you at all, just goes to show a squat is not a squat unless its deep. I see SO many guys at the gym doing these half and quarter squats with big weight. if their knees accidentally bent an inch farther they'd be buried. Good luck Warrior with getting your now parallel squats back up to the 4 wheels for 10 rep range

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

Ya, real parallel let alone a full squat humbles all, but the real squatters at most gyms.

There are plenty of guy's at my gym that would claim 225 for reps or even 315 for reps only to find out like I guessed, they were doing quarter or half squats lmao.

I can almost always tell if a guy can actually squat what he says he does by his overall build and leg size.

There's a guy at my gym that is hella yoked(obviously on roids) that does quarter squats with 500lbs. It's a joke and all the powerlifter's laugh to themselves when they see him squat because he looks like an idiot. I mean, I could probably get 500lbs up and do quarter squats with it lol.

 

[needsize]

So am I reading it right, you went from 405x10 to 225x8 when you started squatting parallel? Not trying to slam you at all, just goes to show a squat is not a squat unless its deep. I see SO many guys at the gym doing these half and quarter squats with big weight. if their knees accidentally bent an inch farther they'd be buried. Good luck Warrior with getting your now parallel squats back up to the 4 wheels for 10 rep range

there were a few at my gym, both about 6' tall, and 170lbs if they were lucky, that would squat 405lbs for reps. They would step out of the rack and be shaking so bad the other one would have to hold onto his waist to keep him steady, then proceed to do 1/4 squats, if that. Then they would swagger past me all bad ass as they were squatting around the same as me

 

[Texas Ranger]

there were a few at my gym, both about 6' tall, and 170lbs if they were lucky, that would squat 405lbs for reps. They would step out of the rack and be shaking so bad the other one would have to hold onto his waist to keep him steady, then proceed to do 1/4 squats, if that. Then they would swagger past me all bad ass as they were squatting around the same as me

Man, that's FUNNY!!!!