The Squat

[Donny]

I agree but Leg press is a close 2nd

[joswift]

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

[robcguns]

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.

[Royalty]

Barbell front squats might be better that regular squats.

[Donny]

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.

[Humble Narcissist]

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.

[IroNat]

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.

[joswift]

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

[Tennisballz]

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!

[Van_Bilderass]

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.

[BigRo]

Squats are supreme.

[Wiggs]

Arthur seems like he was a very serious man. As serious as Vince Gironda.

[illuminati]

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 🤬🤬🤬

 

[Skeletor]

Squats are great, though front squats are my favorite. Never liked smith machine squats or those leverage squat machines.

[njflex]

Hack squat

[illuminati]

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.

[Donny]

Arthur seems like he was a very serious man. As serious as Vince Gironda.

He smoked & drunk whisky...kept crocodiles & always carried a Gun

[Donny]

Watch this interview..he talks about AJ on there. He thinks AJ had connections to the CIA 

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[Van_Bilderass]

Watch this interview..he talks about AJ on there. He thinks AJ had connections to the CIA 

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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?

[Donny]

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?

No idea    but I do believe he had connections & Boyer is no idiot so I believe him..

[Phantom Spunker]

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.

[Humble Narcissist]

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.

[joswift]

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

[Irongrip400]

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.

[Donny]

Bodyweight squats only or front squats with barbell or kettlebell.

Leg extensions SS with Bodyweight squats works well .