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I agree but Leg press is a close 2nd
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squats with moderate weight as a core excercise
Putting huge poundages on your shoulders is just going to cause injury
Your legs are way stronger than your low back
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The only problem with the leg press for me is crazy blood pressure. Squats don’t do that to me and I don’t go heavy on squats I prefer to go as low as possible and higher reps.
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Barbell front squats might be better that regular squats.
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squats with moderate weight as a core excercise
Putting huge poundages on your shoulders is just going to cause injury
Your legs are way stronger than your low back
Yes I use moderate weights & higher reps, regardless if I use leg press or squats higher reps blow my legs up.
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squats with moderate weight as a core excercise
Putting huge poundages on your shoulders is just going to cause injury
Your legs are way stronger than your low back
Do box squats with huge weights like powerlifters do. Hundreds of pounds crushing your spine with no place to go because of the box leads to a strong healthy back.
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Do box squats with huge weights like powerlifters do. Hundreds of pounds crushing your spine with no place to go because of the box leads to a strong healthy back.
Truth.
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Do box squats with huge weights like powerlifters do. Hundreds of pounds crushing your spine with no place to go because of the box leads to a strong healthy back.
Coach loves those, he gets high scool kids doing them
At least in a squat all your low back and hip flexors are contracted supporting your spine
Imagine sitting down so your whole core relaxes.....what could possibly go wrong
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Coach loves those, he gets high scool kids doing them
At least in a squat all your low back and hip flexors are contracted supporting your spine
Imagine sitting down so your whole core relaxes.....what could possibly go wrong
But Jason blaha does them…..how could they be bad for you?! He’s an internationally renowned strength coach with one of the best physiques out there!
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Angled leg press doesn't suit me at all, I go down 4 inches and that's where my range of motion stops, I wish I could do them deep enough to be useful, I think it's a machine that isn't so mentally stressful while still stimulating the quads. Different horisontal presses suit me fine. Regular squats are fine, except I can't quite break parallel, which you don't necessarily have to do to build quads, but just saying. Lower back is fine as far as squats, I can do tons of weight on good mornings, much more than on squats. Squats on smith machine solves the depth problem. I have loved box squats as a strength building move for deadlifts or just lower body strength period. No issue for the lower back ever, maybe because my lower back is so relatively strong. I still maintain that the reason many injure or tweak their lower backs on squats is because they don't really strengthen their lower backs in their routine, maybe abs as well, but I'm biased.
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Squats are supreme.
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Arthur seems like he was a very serious man. As serious as Vince Gironda.
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squats with moderate weight as a core excercise
Putting huge poundages on your shoulders is just going to cause injury
Your legs are way stronger than your low back
I must be one of the fortunate ones.
Squatting over 700lbs & doing half / partials with up to 900lbs
No lower back / hip or knee problem's.
Poundages reducing with advancing age 🤬🤬🤬
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Squats are great, though front squats are my favorite. Never liked smith machine squats or those leverage squat machines.
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Hack squat
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Squats are great, though front squats are my favorite. Never liked smith machine squats or those leverage squat machines.
Front squats are very good leg builders- you don't see many Olympic weight lifters
With poor quad development- considering they only do low reps.
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Arthur seems like he was a very serious man. As serious as Vince Gironda.
He smoked & drunk whisky...kept crocodiles & always carried a Gun
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Watch this interview..he talks about AJ on there. He thinks AJ had connections to the CIA :D
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Watch this interview..he talks about AJ on there. He thinks AJ had connections to the CIA :D
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I have a buddy who sometimes posts here who says Arthur was illuminati and/or freemason and had shot over 100 people dead who had come to watch his wild animals. Drug delusions or... true? :D
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I have a buddy who sometimes posts here who says Arthur was illuminati and/or freemason and had shot over 100 people dead who had come to watch his wild animals. Drug delusions or... true? :D
No idea ;D but I do believe he had connections & Boyer is no idiot so I believe him..
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Even light squats with 60kg are throwing my lower back out these days. For days after, my discs always feel like they're on the verge of 'popping out' again, for lack of a better understanding of what's going on.
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Even light squats with 60kg are throwing my lower back out these days. For days after, my discs always feel like they're on the verge of 'popping out' again, for lack of a better understanding of what's going on.
Bodyweight squats only or front squats with barbell or kettlebell.
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Even light squats with 60kg are throwing my lower back out these days. For days after, my discs always feel like they're on the verge of 'popping out' again, for lack of a better understanding of what's going on.
get your quads and hams "bladed", tightness in your legs pulls your low back
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I had a spine surgeon tell me that I have no business ever putting a barbell across my shoulders again. I’m an idiot so I do legs every two weeks and don’t generally go above 225 on squats. I’m 6’4 so I’m not built for them. I used to have a strong deadlift but I could puke thinking about pulling that much weight again.
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Bodyweight squats only or front squats with barbell or kettlebell.
Leg extensions SS with Bodyweight squats works well .
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Bodyweight squats only or front squats with barbell or kettlebell.
Kettlebell would probably be good but I'd look a bit gay doing it. Maybe I'll buy one for the house.
get your quads and hams "bladed", tightness in your legs pulls your low back
I've been following your experience with it. Sounds like something I need to try, as I suspect my hamstrings are involved in a lot of this. I also need to just get an MRI done. Keep meaning to arrange it but I'm always away. There's periods where the discs in the lowest lumbar area seem to herniate and it will leave me physically unable to walk at all for a few days. It usually requires a week in bed with muscle relaxants and painkillers when it happens once or twice a year now. Last time, the physio asked to take a photo because the muscles in my back had pulled so much on one side that I was contorted like some retard from a horror film.
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What kind of problems do you get if your quads are relatively tight instead of your hams? Everyone is always stretching their hams, maybe not so much their quads. I never hear, your quads are tight and weak, it's your hams are tight and weak, apparently this asymmetry is epidemic in trainers lol. I know my quads have always been pathetically weak compared to my hams and I've always been stretching my hams as well as training them several times more than the quads, maybe that's very uncommon. I think it was common with the westside lifters (Louie's Simmons training philosophy), they even claimed they used their hams to squat lol, and the proof was in their tiny quads (really).
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Leg extensions SS with Bodyweight squats works well .
I workout at home so no leg extensions for me.
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I workout at home so no leg extensions for me.
Then if you can do them i would do a SS of Sissy Squats & step ups
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Kettlebell would probably be good but I'd look a bit gay doing it. Maybe I'll buy one for the house.
I've been following your experience with it. Sounds like something I need to try, as I suspect my hamstrings are involved in a lot of this. I also need to just get an MRI done. Keep meaning to arrange it but I'm always away. There's periods where the discs in the lowest lumbar area seem to herniate and it will leave me physically unable to walk at all for a few days. It usually requires a week in bed with muscle relaxants and painkillers when it happens once or twice a year now. Last time, the physio asked to take a photo because the muscles in my back had pulled so much on one side that I was contorted like some retard from a horror film.
Spunk, if you have some time to spare, I’d highly recommend reading "Low Back Disorders" by Stuart McGill.
https://vdoc.pub/download/low-back-disorders-55pkthfcetf0
It's a great read, especially these chapters:
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Spunk, if you have some time to spare, I’d highly recommend reading "Low Back Disorders" by Stuart McGill.
https://vdoc.pub/download/low-back-disorders-55pkthfcetf0
It's a great read, especially these chapters:
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Thanks, mate. Downloaded it now and will read through it. I'm falling to bits these days so it's time I paid more attention to this stuff.
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Then if you can do them i would do a SS of Sissy Squats & step ups
Yes, lunges work as well.
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Yes, lunges work as well.
very good but i prefer step ups, hits the same muscles ( for me )
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The hindu squats/sissy squats seem pretty good. I saw how Mark Bell was shown how to do them in some video someone linked here, high reps especially for knee problems and for the VMO. I always thought "real" sissy squats were to be done leaning way back with a huge stretch, then it becomes real heavy and you can only do a few reps.
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The hindu squats/sissy squats seem pretty good. I saw how Mark Bell was shown how to do them in some video someone linked here, high reps especially for knee problems and for the VMO. I always thought "real" sissy squats were to be done leaning way back with a huge stretch, then it becomes real heavy and you can only do a few reps.
The only problem is the boredom from doing high reps.
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The hindu squats/sissy squats seem pretty good. I saw how Mark Bell was shown how to do them in some video someone linked here, high reps especially for knee problems and for the VMO. I always thought "real" sissy squats were to be done leaning way back with a huge stretch, then it becomes real heavy and you can only do a few reps.
That's how I've always done them but people use the Sissy squat bench in gyms
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:)
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^^^ No sissy squats for Kaz. I doubt if he could even do them.
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^^^ No sissy squats for Kaz. I doubt if he could even do them.
Or he'd want to do them .
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Been doing some bicycle-squats lately (nh).
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This will sort out any pussy boys :D
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Thats not you Donny, he has some hair.
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This will sort out any pussy boys :D
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I'm a Finn but I never ice bathed, haven't even done a full cold water plunge in the tub because I'm a pussy like that :D
I have some relatives who did that all winter well into old age. They say it's pretty addicting. Big release of euphoric neurotransmitters :D
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Thats not you Donny, he has some hair.
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I'm a Finn but I never ice bathed, haven't even done a full cold water plunge in the tub because I'm a pussy like that :D
I have some relatives who did that all winter well into old age. They say it's pretty addicting. Big release of euphoric neurotransmitters :D
Honestly thought when he went into the squat he'd go through the ice..
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Honestly thought when he went into the squat he'd go through the ice..
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Leg press is a stupid exercise.
Even if you do depth, you can convince yourself you're some sort of goliath powerful c unt and then you go squat and it turns out you can do 3 plates. ::)
Last resort exercise if you can't squat or so something else.