Like I said, some of my numbers are coming back up. I used Westside for a long time and while my box squat went up, my full squat suffered without me knowing. I thought everything was going great based on what I have read (if your box squat is high then your full squat should be even higher). When I got back to regular squats, I had nothing! I could still hit a 585 DL but my squat was just weak as hell. I could front squat more than I could back squat?!
I will get it back where it needs to be and hopefully everything else follows. And yes, my upper body has always been my strong point.
No offence to Westside, but I personally think they're way off on the box squat routine.
That whole thing is creating a powerlifting community that have shit for legs and are dead as soon as they come close to parallell.
As I stated, no offence to Westside and Louie S, as his ideas on mixing dynamic training with the usual heavy training makes lots of sense.
But the amount of partial squatting to boxes is killing the ability to squat to full depth.
Look at the best squatters in the world - the Olympic Weightlifters. They always hit way below parallell.
That's how I gather you should train for muscular strength.
You can always train competition style squats closer to meets.
Sorry for hijacking the thread.
JMO.