I'm Over Squats

[Brick]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few between.

 

[chocchillimango]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few between.

sometimes you aren't allowed to squat until an injury gets to a certain point in recovery.
I was doing front squats to a highish box for a couple of months while my hip ligament injury healed. Took ages.
STill have hip tightness but the injury is gone and I've been squatting right through it. Uncomfortable as all hell, but I persist knowing it'll get better.

But for those first couple of months, I would only have done more damage.
In those instances, you need to find alternatives that help you work around it.

 

[Goosey]

Why's that mate?
Im about to start back into bodyweight only training, now 6 weeks post-op. Lunges are on my 'to-do' list, with an aim to do them with weights when i can...

These lunges are great as the isolateral movement doesn't place a huge load on the spine while being able to create a lot of movement around the hip, but as you increase the weight or resistance, the need to balance yourself is contraindicated.

The hammer lunge machine is a beauty as you can create quite a load, and there is no risk of losing balance when fatigued, where all the action is.

 

[Goosey]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few between.

Too true.

Why don't People squat because ?
it makes them feel very uncomfortable, every muscle under the bar is working, which really hurts.

Everyone's threshold of pain is different.

 

[nazzysmith]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few between.

Amen to that brother...

Have only been squatting since I joined the ausbb crew.... I joined ausbb in August 2011 and quickly learned what squats were and their importance... Then started squatting Sep/Oct 2011 using 5x5...Has been an absolute slog but I can honestly say it has been totally worth it...

Hardest thing was when I first started... Shithouse mobility and I couldn't squat to save my life... So had to start with an empty bar... Meanwhile I could bench
120kg... Had to swallow my pride and undo the many years of failing to squat... 120kg dude squatting a 20kg bar in public gym equals not cool...

Has been a mission with numerous setbacks...However I fricken love what squats have done for me...

Had dodgy knee that required heavy strapping when I snow boarded for nearly 5 years...

This knee would regularly cause me grief getting in and out of my car...

Had lower back issue that would flare up from time to time... Mowing lawns...Surfing... There was always an imbalance between my upper body and lower body...

All of these issues are no longer problems for me... At the age of 36 squats repaired my issues... Can't believe I wasted so many years with them...

 

[Bazza20]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few between.

Na I'm just soft like all the others that make excuses for not being able to squat.

 

[McFLy]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few

Lmao...u think u know everybodys situation? Some people are just pussys and weak ****s. There are alot of people who are generaly injured..I for one dont give two fucks what brigade u put me in...I know my quads are fucking crazy.

I also know I can actualy get them even bigger with out squats. The u must squat crap junk talk is a typical sterio type garbage talk of small dick internet trolls.

I dont know how squating transfers into real life situation where u put a heavy object on your shoulders or heavy weights on your back and squat from a height where u actualy get under it a comfortable heigh...the dealift actually has more real life simerlaritys than squatting

Deadlift is king it shits all over squating.

Either way I couldn't give a rats ass about your opinion on me going to hell for choosing not squat. Your moderater mate will prob delete this but who cares I couldnt give two fucks of the opinion of a so called forum expert.

Even lyle McDonald who I belive has a million times more credentials than you says the opposite. Do u know more than lyle?? No ?, I didn't think so!!

 

[jj80]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few

Lmao...u think u know everybodys situation? Some people are just pussys and weak ****s. There are alot of people who are generaly injured..I for one dont give two fucks what brigade u put me in...I know my quads are fucking crazy.

I also know I can actualy get them even bigger with out squats. The u must squat crap junk talk is a typical sterio type garbage talk of small dick internet trolls.

I dont know how squating transfers into real life situation where u put a heavy object on your shoulders or heavy weights on your back and squat from a height where u actualy get under it a comfortable heigh...the dealift actually has more real life simerlaritys than squatting

Deadlift is king it shits all over squating.

Either way I couldn't give a rats ass about your opinion on me going to hell for choosing not squat. Your moderater mate will prob delete this but who cares I couldnt give two fucks of the opinion of a so called forum expert.

Even lyle McDonald who I belive has a million times more credentials than you says the opposite. Do u know more than lyle?? No ?, I didn't think so!!

Calm down big fella he obviously meant you would be in the other 1%

 

[Brick]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few

Lmao...u think u know everybodys situation? Some people are just pussys and weak ****s. There are alot of people who are generaly injured..I for one dont give two fucks what brigade u put me in...I know my quads are fucking crazy.

I also know I can actualy get them even bigger with out squats. The u must squat crap junk talk is a typical sterio type garbage talk of small dick internet trolls.

I dont know how squating transfers into real life situation where u put a heavy object on your shoulders or heavy weights on your back and squat from a height where u actualy get under it a comfortable heigh...the dealift actually has more real life simerlaritys than squatting

Deadlift is king it shits all over squating.

Either way I couldn't give a rats ass about your opinion on me going to hell for choosing not squat. Your moderater mate will prob delete this but who cares I couldnt give two fucks of the opinion of a so called forum expert.

Even lyle McDonald who I belive has a million times more credentials than you says the opposite. Do u know more than lyle?? No ?, I didn't think so!!

Forget your meds?

Squat is king of lifts cause of the carryover to other bodyparts. All the crunches in the world won't work your abs like a set of squats in the 80-90% range.

 

[Goosey]

Forget your meds?

Squat is king of lifts cause of the carryover to other bodyparts. All the crunches in the world won't work your abs like a set of squats in the 80-90% range.

A set of 20 crunches will stimulate more growth than a set of squats in the 80-90% range.

You got blinkers on champ.
Don't believe everything you think.

 

[Goosey]

I thnk 99% of the too injured to squat brigade is just people who give up on them cause they are hard work and it is a convenient excuse. People who are genuinely too banged to squat (like bazza) are far and few

Lmao...u think u know everybodys situation? Some people are just pussys and weak ****s. There are alot of people who are generaly injured..I for one dont give two fucks what brigade u put me in...I know my quads are fucking crazy.

I also know I can actualy get them even bigger with out squats. The u must squat crap junk talk is a typical sterio type garbage talk of small dick internet trolls.

I dont know how squating transfers into real life situation where u put a heavy object on your shoulders or heavy weights on your back and squat from a height where u actualy get under it a comfortable heigh...the dealift actually has more real life simerlaritys than squatting

Deadlift is king it shits all over squating.

Either way I couldn't give a rats ass about your opinion on me going to hell for choosing not squat. Your moderater mate will prob delete this but who cares I couldnt give two fucks of the opinion of a so called forum expert.

Even lyle McDonald who I belive has a million times more credentials than you says the opposite. Do u know more than lyle?? No ?, I didn't think so!!

You actually appear to be an idiot when you write this sort of garbage.

 

[Brick]

A set of 20 crunches will stimulate more growth than a set of squats in the 80-90% range.

You got blinkers on champ.
Don't believe everything you think.

Will those crunches carryover to obliques, traps, rear delts, lower back, hammies, quads, calves and the length of your penis. Because squats will.

Think you might have the blinkers on Andy.

 

[Darkoz]

Forget your meds?

Squat is king of lifts cause of the carryover to other bodyparts. All the crunches in the world won't work your abs like a set of squats in the 80-90% range.

Let's not get carried away with the virtues of squats brick

 

[Brick]

I think the quote buttin is playing up I meant to quote goose but quoted myself WTF

 

[Goosey]

Will those crunches carryover to obliques, traps, rear delts, lower back, hammies, quads, calves and the length of your penis. Because squats will.

Think you might have the blinkers on Andy.

Are they connected to the abs?

What are you talkin about?
Why are we fighting, you cannot argue with self evident truths brick, crunches directly work the abs, the abs will play a huge role supporting the spine in the squat.

 

[Brick]

Are they connected to the abs?

What are you talkin about?
Why are we fighting, you cannot argue with self evident truths brick, crunches directly work the abs, the abs will play a huge role supporting the spine in the squat.

My point is good bang for your buck. At one stage all I did was squat and my upperback grew better then it had in years and my deadlift got through a plateau even though I hadn't pulled from the floor in 12 weeks.

I don't think I would have gotten the same effect by just doing crunches or crunches and leg extensions. Surely you see where I am going here.

 

[bradsky]

by page 8 I got bored, then BAZINGA!

thread delivered.

 

[McFLy]

Will those crunches carryover to obliques, traps, rear delts, lower back, hammies, quads, calves and the length of your penis. Because squats will.

Think you might have the blinkers on Andy.

Oh I see...you are a powerlifter just preaching usual powerlifting stuff.. cool story.

 

[McFLy]

Quote button haha!! Meant to quote brickhead not goose
.

 

[Brick]

Quote button haha!! Meant to quote brickhead not goose
.

Its fucked aye, watch I'll quote myself now when it should be you.

Paralell dimensions fuckin eerie aye.

Edit wtf it finally worked and made me look like a dickhead.