anyone here squat?

yes, occasionally in public bathrooms.

My greatest physical talent is useless because the rest of me isn't strong enough to keep up.

One day in HS 20 odd years ago the football team had bought a squat machine and a couple of extra 25 pound weights. The shot putters on the track team said they were the only 3 football players to work out with the whole rack plus the 50 pounds.

When it was my turn, I made sure they were watching and proceeded to easily do 3 more reps with the full rack and the 50 pounds than they had. They were stunned, I weighed 80 pounds less than the lightest of them. I told them I had tried it in XC and found out what I could do but that I didn't do it because it took a couple of days for my shoulders to recover.

Now, of course, I have a second 10 seconds of fame on Letsrun but I'm sure none of you will believe me.

yes, i did heavily over the winter, and deadlift too. i was doing the rippetoe strength program, which basically focuses on bench, DL, and squat. a couple other lifts too. just have to focus on being consistent with eating a lot, going to bed early, etc. my lifts got up to the following:

squat 3x5 @ 285lbs

deadlift 1x5 @ 300lbs

bench 3x5 @ 205lbs

i've since backed off and am running about 30-45 mins a day and an hr and a half long run for marathon training. the only thing i could see an issue with squatting, and DL, is the constant tightness in your lower back and core. these lifts REALLY tax the core, maybe even moreso than your legs.

Once a week I do:

10x225 5x295 5x295 10x225

or

5x245 5x265 5x285 5x305

And yes, I make sure to go parallel. But I'm around 185 lbs. So it's not really that great for my weight :(

I'm doing "jumping frogs" every day and burpees and can feel the explosiveness on my daily hour runs. I'm shoccked and will keep them in my routine. I'm a believer

yes, I do squat. I'm 140# and 6', usually I do 10x95, 8x145, 6x165, 4x175, then back down to 8x145 again.

Lunges are also good.

I am 5'6" and 175 pounds. Most people would consider that quite squat.

Not sure how believable this will sound, but it's true.

When doing squats I keep my lumbar area arched and go down as far as possible until the heads of the femurs reach their full range of motion in the acetabulum. This gives a sort of binding feel and that's when I know if I go lower I'll have to start rounding my lower back.

At that depth, which puts the crease of my hip about an inch below my knee joint, I set the cross bars to catch the barbell while I pause at the bottom for about 1 second before going back up. That way the load is released at the bottom and it makes it much harder to come back, supposedly increasing the rate of force development substantially.

So, that being said, I'm 5'10" weigh 155lbs, look more like a 400 meter sprinter and I do 1 set like that with 135lbs for 8-10 reps and my upper hamstrings are DONE. I have to do this exercise last because it's always very hard to walk afterwards. I've been told it could have something to do with muscle attachments because very few people get that thrashed from squats.

I can not believe most of you are doing more than 1/4 or 1/2 squats, even if y'all sincerely think you are doing a legit squat, but maybe I just have some extremely weak hamstrings or strange muscle attachments.

On the flip-side, I can deadlift 295lbs for 8-10 reps and don't get sore at all. Go figure.

Djdndjdndjdndn wrote:

I'm doing "jumping frogs" every day and burpees and can feel the explosiveness on my daily hour runs. I'm shoccked and will keep them in my routine. I'm a believer

Interesting, how many reps and sets do you do?

this is LR you know wrote:

yes, occasionally in public bathrooms.

Thank you. Thank you thank you.

I have two workouts which I alternate each week:

Power clean 5x3

Front squat 3x5

Stiff leg deadlift 1x5

or

Power clean 5x3

Deadlift 1x5

Squat 3x5

I use a linear progressive scheme. ie I add 2.5kg to each exercise every week. I take the weight back three weeks if I fail.

"anyone here squat?"

I'd imagine most of the women do.