Did Dorian Yates Squat?

[Slik]

 I have always been very strong in the squat. I love doing squats. But I am being haunted now from two herniated disc's from when I was younger. To the point where my legs go almost completely numb from the compressive forces.  The seems to come and go after a squat. Just getting old I guess. I'm hoping this episode clears up soon and I'm just gonna stick with heavy leg presses and accessory exercises for a while.

I don't believe Dorian squatted I'm assuming that you can still build or maintain impressive set of quads I just doing leg presses.

[Slik]

Stupid text to speak on the iPhone sorry about all the typos

[funk51]

I have always been very strong in the squat. I love doing squats. But I am being haunted now from two herniated disc's from when I was younger. To the point where my legs go almost completely numb from the compressive forces.  The seems to come and go after a squat. Just getting old I guess. I'm hoping this episode clears up soon and I'm just gonna stick with heavy leg presses and accessory exercises for a while.

I don't believe Dorian squatted I'm assuming that you can still build or maintain impressive set of quads I just doing leg presses.

    you could do hack squats if you could get the old type where you just grip the handles and your back rests against a padded board... the old type didn't have the shoulder pads which would cause spinal compression...

[BBSSchlemiel]

I have always been very strong in the squat. I love doing squats. But I am being haunted now from two herniated disc's from when I was younger. To the point where my legs go almost completely numb from the compressive forces.  The seems to come and go after a squat. Just getting old I guess. I'm hoping this episode clears up soon and I'm just gonna stick with heavy leg presses and accessory exercises for a while.

I don't believe Dorian squatted I'm assuming that you can still build or maintain impressive set of quads I just doing leg presses.

He squatted from the 1983 to 1987, when he needed hip surgery from an injury.

You can definitely build leg size from front squats, trap bar deadlifts (which are really like the intermediate between squats and deads), hack squats, etc. I do front squats, goblet squats and trap bar dead, rotating through them.

I do back squats for some training cycles but no longer do I feel some obligation to them, or regular deads or flat benches for that matter.

I no longer do any exercises that make me feel like shit, with regular deadlifts being the main problem exercise for me. Well, that and flat benches, which are not really a good chest builder for people who are arms-dominant or narrow, like myself. I stick with dips, blast-strap or TRX pushups, and dumbbell bench variations.

All this exercise love affair is driven by mostly powerlifters. That, and some notion that you must drive your flat bench, squat, and deadlift up before you can finally graduate to size building. I believe one of the best ways to wreck one's body is to do 1 to 5 rep maxes. Granted PLers don't train with them year long, But I see no point in regular folks doing it.

[Royalty]

I have heard that Dorian has resumed squatting in the past year or so

[Waller]

I have heard that Dorian has resumed squatting in the past year or so

I heard he only squats during the passing of Nibiru.

[Donny]

Of course he did in the beginning. He also Deadlifted too.

[Henda]

He says in his blood and guts book he squatted early in his career but feels he never got much out of them and he got better quad development when he switched to leg presses and smith machine squats

[ritch]

He did smith machine squats.

[_aj_]

According to the legends of muscle, you MUST squat regardless of injury. So, squat until you're a paraplegic.

PS, squatting gives you big arms too.

[Thespritz0]

According to the legends of muscle, you MUST squat regardless of injury. So, squat until you're a paraplegic.

PS, squatting gives you big arms too.

^^
And you MUST go down until your BALLZ touch the floor!!!

[Royalty]

According to the legends of muscle, you MUST squat regardless of injury. So, squat until you're a paraplegic.

PS, squatting gives you big arms too.

And breathing squats cause your ribcage to dramatically expand. So squats will make your pecs sit up taller when you hit a side chest pose.

[Anna Recksiek]

If you don't then you don't know squat

[Donny]

And breathing squats cause your ribcage to dramatically expand. So squats will make your pecs sit up taller when you hit a side chest pose.

OH SHUT UP you are starting to sound like jpm101  

[youandme]

I added an inch to my arms when I started squatting.

[ritch]

According to the legends of muscle, you MUST squat regardless of injury. So, squat until you're a paraplegic.

PS, squatting gives you big arms too.

haha, can't forget that one, lol...

[PJim]

Didn't suit his structure he says. I can understand that, I have long legs and a short torso and have always felt the movement doesn't quite feel natural for me as it might for people with shorter legs.

[Simple Simon]

stress a muscle through exercise and it will respond with growth, it has no idea which exercises you are doing, it only knows stress.

[Waller]

stress a muscle through exercise and it will respond with growth, it has no idea which exercises you are doing, it only knows stress.

If I yell at my muscles telling them they're small, will that stress them enough to trigger growth?

[Donny]

If I yell at my muscles telling them they're small, will that stress them enough to trigger growth?

NO

[The Abdominal Snoman]

Phil Heath does 95 pound barball bicep curls in the Squat rack. People have seen him do it. 25 pound plates on each side and grunting like he was squatting 500 pounds for reps. lol

[disco_stu]

stress a muscle through exercise and it will respond with growth, it has no idea which exercises you are doing, it only knows stress.

^^^this.

so do leg press. IMO its superior to squat for leg development as you can isolate the quads.

the real issue is that people equate inefficient exercises with reduced effort.

the squat makes you work hard. so you grow.

put that same energy into leg presses, or any leg movement and you'll grow the same, in fact more as you arent also working obliques, core, etc.

[Julio Ceasar]

nice deep medium heavy squats are very good for joints back knees and overall flexibility! Doing strict nice sets of 6-12 reps...very good! 6-10 set. More medium set instead of few heavy set! Work for me! If u want ass do them like powerlifter, if u want quads do them like weightlifters!

[residue]

^^^this.

so do leg press. IMO its superior to squat for leg development as you can isolate the quads.

the real issue is that people equate inefficient exercises with reduced effort.

the squat makes you work hard. so you grow.

put that same energy into leg presses, or any leg movement and you'll grow the same, in fact more as you arent also working obliques, core, etc.

i have a decent squat and more often than not it's my lungs that exhaust wayyyyy before my legs do

[Slik]

I agree. If u work a muscle hard enuff what does it care what exercise it is. My 2 blown discs r too much on me anymore. I used to have horrible pain n was fixed up by a Chiro many years ago. I have no real pain but my legs go numb now and my feet feel frostbit when I squat heavy. Doesn't happen if I leg press etc. time to coordinate  my exercise choices with my age.