squats:45 degree or all the way down.

[jrlex]

How many of you guys go alll the way down when squatting..How many of you don't..Which is best?

Discuss..

 

[riverrock]

Ass To The Grass Bro!
Nobody cares how much or how little you squat - they just want to you to squat it right.

So, drop a few pounds off the bar until your Ass is nerly sitting on the floor, hit the deck and start upping your weight from there.

 

[Popeye1]

I've done both.........all the way down and just a little shy of parallel. I rarely see anyone in my gym go anything even close to parallel. They are more concerned with how much weight is on the bar than how much they can actually move even a little...i.e. EGO!

You definitely need a certain minimum range of motion to get the maximum benefit from squats. What that minimum is, I'm not sure. I generally start to go shy of parallel as the weight gets heavier on my last couple of sets.....not on purpose.

Aside from the depth of the squat, the biggest mistake I see is leading with the hips instead of the knees. To say it another way, you see a lot of folding at the waist....more of a "power squat". Bodybuilders are more concerned with accomplishing what they call an "olympic squat"...it will build more muscle in the legs

 

[jrlex]

Ass To The Grass Bro!
Nobody cares how much or how little you squat - they just want to you to squat it right.

So, drop a few pounds off the bar until your Ass is nerly sitting on the floor, hit the deck and start upping your weight from there.

Sweet..will do bro!

 

[jrlex]

I've done both.........all the way down and just a little shy of parallel. I rarely see anyone in my gym go anything even close to parallel. They are more concerned with how much weight is on the bar than how much they can actually move even a little...i.e. EGO!

You definitely need a certain minimum range of motion to get the maximum benefit from squats. What that minimum is, I'm not sure. I generally start to go shy of parallel as the weight gets heavier on my last couple of sets.....not on purpose.

Aside from the depth of the squat, the biggest mistake I see is leading with the hips instead of the knees. To say it another way, you see a lot of folding at the waist....more of a "power squat". Bodybuilders are more concerned with accomplishing what they call an "olympic squat"...it will build more muscle in the legs

Could you please elaborate on this more please..

 

[Excidium28]

I usualy grab a chair (stool) in the gym what ever u wanna call it, but when I sit down my legs are at 90 degrees. So when I squat it helps to put it behind you, dont sit on it but make sure ur ass gets as close to it as possible. Going below 90 degrees is pointless.

 

[a-bomb5083]

where as this is the aas forum.....anyway, all the way down bro. going parallel w/ squat is equivalent(sp) to only going halfway down on bench, theres no reason to do it. i always go at least 3-4 inchest from the ground. where as i can only do 135 for reps, i don't care. i'm not a bragger, just a lifter. bodybuilding, not bodybragging.

 

[slat1]

If you are not going below parrallel you are not squatting.
*At my gym we bet on how far people are going to go down when they, eh hem, squat. The new thing is knee wraps. People put the on and go to like 45 degrees. Its a complete joke.

 

[Excidium28]

If you are not going below parrallel you are not squatting.
*At my gym we bet on how far people are going to go down when they, eh hem, squat. The new thing is knee wraps. People put the on and go to like 45 degrees. Its a complete joke.

LOL, this happens at my gym knee wraps, for 225lbs 45 degree squats. I wanna clok'm with a 45lb plate when I see'm doin that shit.

 

[riverrock]

If you are not going below parrallel you are not squatting.
*At my gym we bet on how far people are going to go down when they, eh hem, squat. The new thing is knee wraps. People put the on and go to like 45 degrees. Its a complete joke.

As I said, who cares what you can squat. I'd have alot more respect for a Bro with 100Pounds on the Bar and breaking parallel than a guy with 600 on the bar and making a tit of himself trying to look the Hardman when anyone who knows their weights would bet their house than in reality, he can't squat Jack-S#@T!!!