All the way down and multiple reps.
All the way down and multiple reps.
Probably 100 pounds
Quite a lot of distance runners (myself included most likely) probably can’t perform a proper full ass-to-the-grass/upper body relaxed full ROM squat. Rare is the runner with absolutely no muscle imbalances. In order to answer this question, I am going to set to the requirement to a 3/4 of the way down squat .. Let’s just assume that your average distance runner has a mile time in the 5:00-6:00 minute range then I would say the average runner would be able to perform this movement squatting round about their own bodyweight.
Yezzy wrote:
Quite a lot of distance runners (myself included most likely) probably can’t perform a proper full ass-to-the-grass/upper body relaxed full ROM squat. Rare is the runner with absolutely no muscle imbalances. In order to answer this question, I am going to set to the requirement to a 3/4 of the way down squat .. Let’s just assume that your average distance runner has a mile time in the 5:00-6:00 minute range then I would say the average runner would be able to perform this movement squatting round about their own bodyweight.
I have a mile time below 5:00, I have run-up to a 50k race, I am 5'10" usually between 162-165 lbs and I can squat close to 200 pounds. Ass to grass I can easily do my body weight but find lifting heavy is just as taxing on the joints as too many miles. So now I lift for function and to keep from getting injured, lowered my mileage and if so choose can still squat my weight ass to the grass.
Not much wrote:
Probably 100 pounds
Really?? I'm a 5'9, 135 runner and I can squat 215.
I'd think most runners could squat more than 100 lbs. so that's not average then.
Squatting starter wrote:
All the way down and multiple reps.
All the way down with a heavy weight has no relationship with running.
untrained? max would be maybe .08 to 1.2x bodyweight
ohia wrote:
untrained? max would be maybe .08 to 1.2x bodyweight
This seems about right.
It all depends on how you define proper depth. I will go with hip crease at or below top of the knee. This is a powerlifting Squat. The vast majority of people, much less tight imbalanced runners, can't do a proper AtG squat without the hips rotating at the bottom thus hurting the lumbar.
When I quit running competitively and started lifting as a 140lb runner I was repping 135lb, and I'm 5'6" and was already pretty heavy for my height as a runner.
So I would go with 135lb as an average.
Alan
Squatting starter wrote:
All the way down and multiple reps.
Mind you, I was a month shy of 18 and had a running background. I squatted 405 ass to grass and within that month, I ran a 5:50 mile to kick start summer conditioning for the football team. I hadn't run the mile since the summer before, but played basketball that winter. My events in track were hurdles/4x1. I wasn't a true distance runner by a long shot though. Probably more of a middle distance guy, but my ego said try and be a sprinter haha.
I don't believe there's any real reason for distance runners to emphasize weight to that extreme to become a better runner. Squats, absolutely, but not necessarily the more weight the better.
Coffee Bacon wrote:
Squatting starter wrote:
All the way down and multiple reps.
Mind you, I was a month shy of 18 and had a running background. I squatted 405 ass to grass and within that month, I ran a 5:50 mile to kick start summer conditioning for the football team. I hadn't run the mile since the summer before, but played basketball that winter. My events in track were hurdles/4x1. I wasn't a true distance runner by a long shot though. Probably more of a middle distance guy, but my ego said try and be a sprinter haha.
I don't believe there's any real reason for distance runners to emphasize weight to that extreme to become a better runner. Squats, absolutely, but not necessarily the more weight the better.
What was your body weight?
Alan