Widow maker/DC style is gut wrenching.
I'm really just curious about something and this is not to be taken personally by anyone BECAUSE this is a general curiousity.
Now considering how poorly a lot of people do squats (1/4, 1/2, 1/3 way down with 275 on and actually recording it as a 275lb squat etc) in every gym I have ever been too. Some of these numbers in here are insane, so are we talking REAL parallel, below parallel or the 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 stuff?
I mean I have been doing this stuff for 10 years, and I know in the beginning I didn't squat all the way parallel and it took time and worked on it. When I finally got the form down it takes time to be able to move 275 from REAL parallel or below parallel. Now I can SERIOUSLY squat 315 below parallel and that is not easy and it took years.
To do weights like 260 20x after 5 sets of squats is truly impressive. I can't move that load 20x at parallel or below parallel after a full compliment of squats. So I'm just curious if the form is really there?
What do you guys think? I'm just trying to get input on the whole "squat" and form thing, and opinions on the topic.
Case in point: I saw a dude today being all big and bad at the gym loaded up 315 on the squat rack and get's all pysched up and does literally a 1/3 squat like 10x, and he was making noise like he just accomplished something. I just stared at him for a second and knowing how pissy some people get when you try to correct them, I just decided to walk away. I mean you REALLY are not engaging your quads by doing that stuff.
Same thing with barbell lunges, OMG if I see another dude doing a lunge where he barely gets to 45 degrees and knees over toes I'm going to scream.
Things like squats, deads, bbell lunges, bench are about form more about weight, cause you can really destroy your body doing this wrong. No?
Yay/Nay?