Is Jow Forums leglet?
Is Jow Forums leglet?
Kevin Green
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Nolan Hall
3pl8 squats is above average
my uni gym i never see guys hit depth with more than 2pl8
Nathan Morales
Pretty much
I cheated on my squats today and skipped leg extensions
Fuck doing legs I'm going to focus only on my calves
Zachary King
Leg extensions are worth skipping. Keep those knees intact
Zachary Thompson
Did legs (squats) for the first 3 months of lifting and haven't done any leg shit since. Shit is pointless
Ethan Garcia
i fucked up my knee doing squats today, but i think it was more that my form was bad than the 165kg i was repping
Juan Johnson
lol
Chase Flores
I am, but not by choice. for whatever reason, squat has always been my weakest lift. And it's not just a lower body issue, because my deadlifts have always been my strongest lift. I think it's just an issue of body proportions or something, but I don't know. Still squat every day even if I'm constantly in a cycle of deloading and increasing and deloading and increasing.
Austin Cooper
The only people who say "YOU NEED TO WORK LEGS BRUH" are beer-bellied fat fucks/skinnyfats who have to grow their legs to ridiculous size just for them to look proportional
Kayden Diaz
Most of this thread will never know how awesome it feels to put 405 on your back and squat that bitch ass to grass and still have some left in the tank.
Thomas Cruz
This weak-minded faggot coping keeps getting perpetuated on Jow Forums. Just admit youre a novice with bad technique or that youre scared to fight your way out of the bottom of a squat, enough of this shit
Luis Collins
REEEE WHY CAN'T I SQUAT HEAVY EVERY TIME I GO OVER LMAO3PLATE MY CHEST COLLAPSES AND I END UP DOING A GOOD MORNING REEEEEEE
Xavier Collins
Leg extensions+curls are knee insurance.
Jeremiah Sanders
>squatted 95 lbs and ohp 1pl8 today
I fucked my hip up so I'm building up my squat up from the ground up. Also im only front squatting because it feels better on my fucked up hips
>tfw no slav hip structure
William Hill
HORMONAL
RESPONSE
Jaxon Hill
Anything beyond 1/2/3/4 is autism. OP’s pic is true.
Ian Allen
No, I'm T-Rex mode.
Henry Butler
I got you, brother.
Step 1: you're going to want to tighten your back more and drive your elbows forward. Bring hands more inward if necessary to create tightness.
Step 2: Learn to sit back more. Also, try to ensure the bar stays over the mid of your foot. This may feel awkward for a while but it will keep it balanced and allow for more efficient force.
Step 3: Ensure your knees aren't coming in. A good squat stance will have toes slightly turned out to encourage outward motion of the knees. Hip flexibility will be necessary for depth to be hit using this technique to make sure to stretch before you start or you'll pull your groin.
Ryan Cruz
2 strength leg days (squat and dl) + 2 bodybuilding upper body days (bench and bench assis) is the final redpill of weight training.
Christian Fisher
Thanks, but I honestly do all that. The issue for me is that on the ascent, I can't seem to "sync" the two main groups of movers. My quads always activate first without doing so in sync with the posterior chain, so first the legs extend without actually moving the weight much vertically because the hamstrings/back aren't following through. I basically end up doing two separate motions together.
I've also tried multiple times switching to front squats. I can do front squats and those also end up maxing out slightly past 3plate before the limiting factor becomes trying to prevent the weight from dumping forward.
Meanwhile my deadlift maxed at lmao5plate.
Ryder Lewis
#1 is mechanically impossible.
The cue that Coan uses for that is trying to drop the bar behind you, as if you were bailing out of a rep (I'm sure you've seen Klokov or some other oly jerkoff squat and then just drop the bar on the floor).
Carson Nguyen
>t. Leglet
Josiah Gomez
You're overanalyzing the exact positions of a chinese cartoon. The first picture is just supposed to represent the bottom of a squat. I'm just trying to show how my quads extend my legs before my posterior chain extends my hips, rather then firing at the same time in sync like they're supposed to.
I'll try remembering that cue next time though. Although I just don't think there's some simple fix for whatever my problem is. This has been something I've struggled with for a long time.
Robert Foster
Staring at something that's up also help, obviosuly without bending your neck like a retard. At the very least it will inform you that you're bending down when you can no longer look at it.
Christopher Hill
This
Being able to squat and dl heavy is one of the most empowering feelings ever.
Hudson Evans
Reason I said that was because I googled to see if it was bad after being able to Max out the machines and still pump out an ez 10 reps. Turns out it fucks your knees. Literally everything said that
Benjamin Scott
Didn't say anything about squats. Lern 2 read
Joseph Morales
I see. Odd. All I can think of is that you might need to tighten your core more. Typically, when I pitch forward when I initiate my squat it's because I'm not tight enough. Recently tried lowbar squat and it seems to help a lot. So that might be worth a shot for you.
Robert Perry
I haven't done lowbar squats since I first started. Original reason I stopped those and switched to highbar was precisely because it was the first time this problem happened. got to around lmao2plate and it kept turning into a good morning. The problem is accentuated with a lowbar because you have to naturally lean more forward with those.
My front squat, on the other hand, is relatively strong compared to my highbar back squat, precisely because it's easier to keep your back erect.
Isaac Baker
Huh. Well all I can think of then is that adjusting your feet to a position where you feel you can get glute activation. Might be worth going light and focusing on glute contraction as an accessory lift so that you can strengthen them.
Logan Rodriguez
Tried that too. Like I said, I've gone through the whole deload and build up again cycle over and over, trying this and that. I do sincerely appreciate the attempted troubleshooting though.
Luis Bailey
Well damn then. I'm stumped. I hope you figure out a good fix for it, user. My only guess is that it stems from gluteal weakness or perhaps a lack of neuromuscular connection. At least it sounds like your back is strong so that's good.
Elijah Johnson
Yeah, I figure it's something like that. I'm honestly not too concerned about it though. Everything else is strong af and if my squat remakes weak but still decent compared to DYELs, then so be it. Still, I do dream of one day reaching a 4plate squat and finally having a squat stat to be proud of.
Charles Miller
Keep grinding and you'll get it, user. I believe in you!
Gavin Thomas
>Squatting ass to grass
>Ever
I'm one to talk with my 130kg powerlifting squat, but ass to grass is -- by definition -- bad form. It is a herniated disc/SI join sprain waiting to happen.
Owen Martin
>bodybuilding
>bench and bench assis
lmfao
Cameron Clark
Just swim, save your knees. There's no better and safer way to train legs.
Xavier Campbell
Front squats are redpilled as fuck. I'm using dumbbells only now until I get a barbell but I did some heavy goblet squats. Shit felt good
Cooper Richardson
>swimming trains legs
omegalul swimmers are absolute culrbros
Cameron Roberts
The problem is quad weakness, and being unfamiliar with low bar squats. When the hips take off before the shoulders, it's because the quads are too weak to extend the knee against the load and actually move it. So they extend and move the hips in relation to the bar instead. Once the hips reach a certain angle, the stronger hip extensor muscles take over and "good morning" the weight up.
Watch this video.
Zachary Sanchez
enjoy your knee replacements
Isaac Hall
That's a diver not a swimmer, and it happens to be a very bad choice of a sport when it comes to avoiding injury.
Michael Garcia
this video was perfect. Thanks
Parker Myers
>you can't cheat front squats
That was debunked by WormChad
Tyler Roberts
His video actually addresses it too, and I now realize what the problem is. I assumed that if I'm doing front squads, I'm guaranteeing maximum quad/glute use and minimizing the back/hamstrings. But it turns out you can actually do just that, and I was doing the same thing the girl in the video was doing. That's why just doing front squats wasn't actually helping me because I was still muscling it up with my back.
Jaxon Hughes
my biceps are bigger than my calves what do? (i squat around 250)
Brandon Kelly
Calves are genetic. Jason Genova regularly mogs dedicated bodybuilders who work their asses off and know what they're doing, that's all you need to know about nature vs nurture when it comes to calves.
Elijah Nelson
I bench 100lbs more than I squat. I’m to scared that I’m gonna dislocate my knee when squatting because I start swaying to the left and right when I start struggling. Anybody know how to fix this or should I just buy braces and deal with it
Caleb Parker
Just start low and your way up. Focus on staying tight and keeping form.
Caleb Russell
Practice more. Once or twice a week if you're a curlbro who never squats, with light/moderate weight. You can't squat for the first time in months, when you feel like it, and then wonder why your technique is shit and you're uncoordinated, it's a total curlbro move. Until that shit is deeply ingrained in your brain you need a mínimum of frequency.
Evan Carter
Does swiming kills you upper body gains?
Oliver Lee
I’m not a curl bro I deadlift a lot, my squat technique is just shit.....but thx I’ll just do high reps with lighter weight until I get used to it
Adam Nelson
most i ever squatted was like 285 for 1. my fucking knees were exploding by that point so i just never trained squats again. deads hit my legs enough to keep em in line. i hate having big legs because i can never fit into anything.
Elijah Diaz
literally the exact opposite
Aaron Williams
Competitive swimmers lift (upper body 95% of the time). They're basically water sprinters.
t. know a few and used to lift in the same gym as them
Camden Ortiz
I just started squatting. Using light weight (155 lbs) for reps and I feel my hips grinding. It's a scary feeling. No terrible pain or anything, but it's still unsettling and I'm afraid I could be doing damage. How do I avoid hip issues when squatting?
Colton Flores
>Tfw good calf and bicep genetics
Carson Walker
Keeping good form. That's key for these kind of exercises
Eli Wright
Duhh. The problem is everyone gives different cues for form.
Luis Green
How long would it take to lose leg gains from 3pl8 if you ate well but didn't train them?
Xavier Allen
Well I like the Jeff explanation to this exercise
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That "move your chest and hips as a unity" is very helpful when you undertand it. The chest and hips moves together.
For me, whenever I'm performing the squat I always keep in mind that I have stick the butt out at the same time I'm going down. That's what helps me to keep the motion of the knees, hips and chest in order. That's good squat form, the simultaneous motion of those sections.
That and the "imagine your are going to sit on a little chair behind you" thing
Henry Hall
>listening to an overweight boomer
Evan Thompson
The chair thing can be misleading tho especially for high bar squats. Typically you don't sit down with your legs besides the chair, but in front of it. So this cue could lead to sitting too far back.
Great videos itt tho.
But what's imo the most important thing especially for new lifters is mobility, and it didnt get mentioned itt at all. Especially the high bar squats requires exceptional mobility to be performed correctly. So a lot of the issues like hips rising first can also stem from lack of mobility forcing the lifter into a bad position rather than from weak legs compared to back etc.
I know this because it's always been an issue for me and all the cues didn't help properly until I actually started caring about my mobility. Now I didn't lift for 3 years and my squat went from 3 plate to struggling with below 2 plate and obviously I got a lot weaker, but I also lost all my mobility gains and that's why my squat is hampered right now.
So def listen to those videos, they are great, especially the one with the two big dudes. But first make sure you have the proper mobility to actually be able to do the movement properly.
Henry Morales
Is there really people on Jow Forums that skips squating and deadlifting?
do you people don't like to increase your test level?