How much can you deep squat (ass to grass) be honest, I want to see where I stand
How much can you deep squat (ass to grass) be honest, I want to see where I stand
330.
one sh!tload
Zero. I can't flatten my feet against the ground when I squat.
Deeper wrote:
How much can you deep squat (ass to grass) be honest, I want to see where I stand
Training for football I squatted 405 the spring of my junior year of HS. Few months later, I hit the 420 mark before Senior season. Spring of my senior year, I hit 435, and while I never 1 rep maxed 455, my 5 rep max freshman year college added up it. I haven't had 405 in the bar since I was probably 21, and will never load that again, but I am glad I did at that time in my life. Built a baseline of strength that I really believe carries over to my running now as a 30+ year old. I am big fan of kettle bells, goblet squats, and trap bar dead lifts these days to supplement running, plus the hormonal response is a nice bonus.
I'd wear a belt for Squats and Deadlifts if you're doing ORM.
Probably around 440/445 at a bodyweight of around 166.
I front squatted 345 earlier last week and i was abke to get sufficiently low pretty comfortably, but it was supposed to be for a set of two and i had to rack it after one rep and take a break before doing the "second rep", so maybe I'm assuming too much, but I think im getting close to some big breakthroughs in the squat, and all on the ATG area.
My personal thoughts on belts are, if you need a belt for the lift...you probably shouldn't be doing the lift. Even for max outs. I never use a belt and I've max dead lifted 615 (when I weighed 174) and I just got 585 as a max a few weeks ago at said 166 lb BW. I have no issues with my back, despite all this. The 615 was admittedly too much, but when I did the 585 recently I didn't even have residual issues afterward.
If you lift properly, a belt is redundant. Say no to belts.
max about 120 for sets of 10.
Zilch
I have no idea how much I squat because I lift in part to correct for a back problem, it would be counterproductive to max.
as for using a belt, it doesnt have. to be for maxes. I was originally against belts and straps until I saw the results. I get that you can activate your core without the belt, but it helps. You can train your back without using straps on the bar, but why hold yourself back to your level of grip strength, why turn every workout into a hand workout? I found it impractical to do total body workouts and never use straps, it limited me to lighter weights and my workout plan had to be a pyramid involving increasing my grip endurance before I could progress.
Use whatever you need to, but a runner doesnt need to squat extremely heavy weights atg. 100 lb is fine, also do front and overhead squats, if youre going heavier half squats or trap bar deadlifts are enough range of motion for a road and track runner. Dont forget bench, done right this is a total body lift, also incline bench.
I go to parallel when I squat. Sometimes I accidentally go ATG, my guess is 175 ibs for one rep as I can squat parallel 155 ibs for 5 reps. Pretty good for a 130 ibs, 5'8 runner.