HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of BODY SQUATS

It would give you very sore legs.

Rhabdomyolysis.

sampint56 wrote:

But physiologically speaking, what does this accomplish?

In Coe's case, olympically speaking, gold medals.

MS3 Runner wrote:

Rhabdomyolysis.

You would have to be the biggest puss of all time to get rhabdo from ANY number of BW half squats.

go do a million body squats and get back to us

You don't think BW squats build leg strength?

joho wrote:

You don't think BW squats build leg strength?

They do. But BW *HALF* squats don't.

sampint56 wrote:

To put this workout in context, Peter Coe was writing about how a strength training workout can be done without nearby facilities and/or equipment.

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I think the point was to get a session in while stuck in a hotel on the far side of the world with nowhere safe to run. Lots of coaches have made the point that you can always get a session in somehow.

I don't know the physiology of what they do except they definitely strengthen the quads and, consequently, improve tracking of the patella.

I did sets with my son when he was in high school, alternating 10 slow with 10 very fast - fast enough that you can feel a burn in the quads - for a total of maybe must 60 a day. Took just a couple of minutes. It is so hard to link cause and effect in sports, but the senior year I did this with him he had huge breakthroughs in all events from xc to 1600 to 3200. Whether this actually helped or it was something else, I have no idea, but it definitely didn't hurt him and it took minimal time.