started squatting today again....holy crap!

[kiosk]

I gave up on squats for 6 months, had some knee soreness from squatting heavy with phucked up form.....so I laid off for a while and concentrated on DL and leg presses. I decided to start squatting again after my knees getting better and reading on going ATF is easier on the knees than parallel. I started yesterday with the madcow 5x5 routine and whole shit!
I had forgotten what an awesome exercise squats are, what a pump and going down beyond parallel actually feels better on my knees!!!! even my abs were hurting. I am only doing 180lbs now (yea u can laugh) but want to start slow and concentrate on going deeper and keeping form tight instead of going heavy fast, after reading some advice of the posts.....
DL are great too but squats seem to work your whole freakin body, I guess is true when the say "if u aint squattin' you aint training"

 

[waijai]

nothing beats a great squat workout!

 

[blut wump]

There are a couple of recent threads around regarding knees and wide-stance box-squats.

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=399545
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=396662

Agreed, squats can be very hard work.

 

[pgsam]

no shame in keeping the weight low in going ATF...id hate to see you with twice the weight doing quarter squats...good work, keep it up bro!

 

[cwc73]

quarter squats. hahahaha. I was doing my first day of 5X5 ATG grass squats with 225 today in our only power rack. I kept seeing this guy that was actually probably a little thicker than me looking at me like he wanted to do some curls or something . Anyway he racks up the half rack that we have beside the power rack with 135 and preceded to do about at 5/8th squat. Partial squats crack me up.

 

[Masterbaytan]

word atf squats is the way holmes

 

[sandman_007]

quarter squats. hahahaha. I was doing my first day of 5X5 ATG grass squats with 225 today in our only power rack. I kept seeing this guy that was actually probably a little thicker than me looking at me like he wanted to do some curls or something . Anyway he racks up the half rack that we have beside the power rack with 135 and preceded to do about at 5/8th squat. Partial squats crack me up.

i dont see a problem with a few sets of partial squats.....i do about 3 sets of low deep squats with somewhat lighter weight and 2 sets of parallel/ slightly above with heavier weight each workout...seems to be a good bit of variation

 

[Sub-Zero]

leg day (and back day cause of deads) used to be the only day i really soaked my shirts on....now every time i lift im soaked from 5x5

 

[kiosk]

i dont see a problem with a few sets of partial squats.....i do about 3 sets of low deep squats with somewhat lighter weight and 2 sets of parallel/ slightly above with heavier weight each workout...seems to be a good bit of variation

Yea I agree with u, in the last set of the 5x5 I started to lean forward a bit when rising mid-way up from deep, I am thinking bout going just tad under parallel for the last set, looks like mu hip flexors needs some more strenght.

 

[Sub-Zero]

Yea I agree with u, in the last set of the 5x5 I started to lean forward a bit when rising mid-way up from deep, I am thinking bout going just tad under parallel for the last set, looks like mu hip flexors needs some more strenght.

try thrusting ur hips forward under you as yoru coming out of the hole in the squats...like ur pelvic thrusting into a girl,

also focus on the crack where the wall meets the cieling, it will help ur leaning forward problem -at least ithelsp mine

 

[cwc73]

i dont see a problem with a few sets of partial squats.....i do about 3 sets of low deep squats with somewhat lighter weight and 2 sets of parallel/ slightly above with heavier weight each workout...seems to be a good bit of variation

me either. It can be a great asset to load more weight on and help with a possible sticking point, but he didn't do any parallel or deep squats.

 

[perp69]

try thrusting ur hips forward under you as yoru coming out of the hole in the squats...like ur pelvic thrusting into a girl,

also focus on the crack where the wall meets the cieling, it will help ur leaning forward problem -at least ithelsp mine

LOL I imagine a pic of Jenna Jamison on the ceiling. That helps me keep looking up me just fine.

 

[rbtrout]

Deads are a killer if you go heavy, as well. I'm usually a bit more drained after doing them, than squats; but I love doing squats.
I used to go just shy of parallel, but had lots of knee pain. Going past parallel has stopped the pain altogether. Since I started doing deads, my bench has goen up and squats are easier at the same weight I used to use.

 

[Guinness5.0]

also focus on the crack where the wall meets the cieling, it will help ur leaning forward problem -at least ithelsp mine

I like this idea, but another thought is to look forward on the way down, then look up at the point of the lift where you tend to lean forward. If you're already looking up before you lean then you don't really have anywhere else to go, know what I mean?