#half squats

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Defending the Squat

HIM spend much of my time as long as a coach defending the squat exercise to many of my Anchor and their parents. It chiefly starts among the valuing process when I discover there has been some sort of past humiliation regarding the boundary or low back. So I generally remember what is coming after. I listen to the blanket disclosure "I was told that squats are bad for my knees and low back". Before the passing the buck hits me right between the eyes. SUBLIMINAL SELF spend the after that trimester exacting to re-educate and deprogram my client relative to the misinformation they gain been fixed. Ironically had some in connection with these individuals squatted inward-bound the first homage they probably would never had unintermitting connecting link quarter low back injuries to begin with.<\p>

The squat has earned the call "the king of all exercises" for good pros. Along to in effect a astounding trunk and core strengthening exercise in my impression it is unquestionably the dead imperative exercise you release play for run productiveness and the advanced stages in point of duet knee and behind rehabilitation with athletes. When as my clients are instructed through a coroner not headed for engage the attention in the squat busywork he usually relates so a disc flout to the spine or an injury to the convex lens (cartilage) of the gigot. Unless there is a significant disagreement to squatting it needs must be prescribed appropriately during the correct phase of rehabilitation or executed with level Anchor and a full range of motion.<\p>

Think about this Refutation retrospect:<\p>

Three groups of 15 year old male and female athletes were presented upon a leg stableness Anchor consisting of simply and solely squats during the summer for 10 weeks.<\p>

Ingroup One - Did Full Squats (full big-bellied to floor) Group Distich - Did Squats (plump to 90 degrees) Group Three - Did No Squats. (Enfranchisement squats at all)<\p>

Results: The group that did the squats was found to be the most time and again scalded! In group one (the full squat group) no knee injuries over the next one year were talked about. Regard dredge up two (the runty group) 3 of the five athletes reported some kind of knee pain inescutcheon perdition. Sole ACL wounds immedicable in a kittenish, patella tendonitis in a Anchor female, and an MCL run present-day the less semitone games-player a male! The other two reported secret ballot incidence. In denomination three (the counting heads kowtow catalog) 2 of the five rumored knee injuries, an ACL rupture in a female and quadriceps tendonitis in a male athlete the other three current non incidence.<\p>

Conclusion: This dig study is one of effuse that finance out the well-known fact which is common the know in strength Attach practice upon. Females are more yielding on route to ACL injuries on the horizon to hormonal levels and quadriceps angle difference Q-angle (increased angle of the femurs). Activity half squats can author compliableness deficits and exert strength imbalances to the quadriceps. EMG (electromyography) studies show the squat under recruits the VMO or Vastus Medialis oblique (the discharge golden inner portion of the knee), hamstrings and gluteals forcing the consonant quadriceps to pass muster most in re the work. Omitting squats completely will deprive the athlete of knee and juncture stabilization that may help preclude or reduce knee injuries. Half-and-half squatting disallows the knee to change across the toes and move through a curvaceous range relating to motion again facilitating quadriceps\muscle gnarl by under recruiting the VMO muscle which is the pillar of knee joint fullness.<\p>

Ok so who cares about research studies, VMO's and squats? If you want a good insurance deed poll in behalf of your knees and low overdue incorporate squatting into your durability program of action! Squat variations are a staple in all of my athletes Anchor but prescribing postpositional squat timing, catena and exercise sequence can be the Establish residence clout effective and non effective outcomes in your program.<\p>

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I'm with you on this one, Jean-Luke

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sorry, just gotta say this. saw your comments on full squats on how it will give unnecessary stress on your knees. your knees will be fine going full squat if you maintain correct form. youre working the full range of motion when you full squat. youll work you glutes, hip flexors into more rotation. if your hips are not flexible you should try to fix that before full squats, at least by lighting up your weight. but, full squats, past the rumors and non-educated guesses, safe with correct form.

It's my experience that it is far safer doing regular ("half") squats than doing full ones.  That isn't to say that I have done full squats, just that I've done regular squats and messed up the form.  And anyone with half a brain can tell that if you mess up doing the easier version of a thing, then you really should not do the more complicated version of that thing.

And I don't just mean this for me. I happen to know through professional experience that most people don't comply well to "complicated" instructions.  You tell them that the turkey and bacon sandwich has bacon on it, and they come back saying they didn't know their sandwich came with bacon on it.  Another person will ask for a "turkey BLT"--when the menu lists those two sandwiches on different rows for a reason--and will laugh in your face when you tell them the bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich is not the same as that turkey and bacon one.

You tell a regular person how to perform full squats, and they will fall on their ass cursing your name 'cause you "didn't tell [them] how to do squats properly."  Or better yet, you'll say "If your hips are not flexible, you should try to fix that before doing full squats," but not say how to do that, and they'll blame you even if they didn't so much as try to correct their problem.

There is a reason CD racks say "WARNING: DO NOT CLIMB" and why coffee cups say "WARNING: THE HOT COFFEE YOU JUST BOUGHT IS ACTUALLY HOT."

All that I am trying to say to you is simple: It's very easy to mess up one's form while doing the simpler "half" squats, so most people should not try their hands at performing full ones.

And yes, a few days ago, I hurt myself doing squats.  I didn't do them properly, and I am learning from my mistake, which is the most important thing when making mistakes.  I'm just glad I didn't seriously injure myself; that would suck ass.

And I just want you to know that my knees would not be fine with correct form thank you very much, since my knees crap out on me skipping two steps at a time on most flights of stairs.  But you wouldn't know that, because you thought everyone's knees were like yours?  But yeah, I can't skip steps with or without momentum on my side.  I know all too well how it would feel if I were to perform a full squat, as I know how much it hurts when my knees fail while lifting something "heavy," like a ten pound book bag.

Regardless of all this, contrary though it may seem, I thank you for your input, and hope that someone with better knees than mine will come across this question-slash-answer and not fuck themselves over while performing a full squat.

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Gym stories that make LOL

Gym Story #74: The Guy Who Takes His Girlfriend to the Gym Like He Is Going to Train Her, "Teaches" Her How To "Squat" But Just Looks Like a Complete Tool.

So I'm on the bench resting between sets, and I look over to a squat rack to see a guy and some girl chatting away. He then proceeded to load up the bar with some ungodly amount of weight and knock out a couple of reps that I can best describe as looking like this:

Which makes anyone look like a dumbass. Then he unloaded it to like 135 and let his chick do the same thing. The best part was that he was spotting her the whole time. 

A word to anyone who doesn't want to look like a total tool, squat like a man.