Article: How To Get Best Strength & Power Gains From The S
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herderdude
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I really want to see someone squat the weight in the picture at the top. My calculations put it at 965+ ~200 chain weight. Brutal.
Hyde
Legend
Watched a local guy going to compete in Argentina really soon hit 1,150 straight weight the other day (his best in comp was 1108 or 1118 I believe, at 308 at the Arnold). He posts a few vids on his FB page every week and some are wild. Just pulled 905 sumo from 2-3" of pads too. Kinda weird to see somebody in your own backyard doing stuff like that.
noahneng
New member
This is completely wrong!!:
“3) Full squats are superior to half or quarter squats. In a comparison of squats to parallel and half or quarter squats, muscle activation is highest in the last phase of the descent and first phase of the ascent. In simple terms, your muscles are working hardest as you go from parallel to a deep squat and vice versa.”
Look at the actual study he references:
Clark, D., Lambert, M., et al. Muscle Activation in the Loaded Free Barbell Squat: A Brief Review. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 2012. 26(4), 1169-1178.
lafitness.com.br/biblioteca/artigos/muscle-activation-in-the-loaded-free-barbell-squat-a-brief-review.pdf
From the actual study:
1. “Muscle activation is not different in squats to varying depths at moderate loads. Within a parallel squat, it appears that activation is greatest in the last phase of the descent and the first phase of the ascent.”
2. “Only gluteus maximus activation increases with squat depth”
Also from the study: “Pereira et al. (25), however, divided the eccentric and concentric movements into 30 (degree ) segments and found that activation was highest for the deepest segment of both phases in a RM parallel squat.”
So from this we see that approaching parallel in the parallel squat has higher activation than closer to standing up; maybe Poliquin confused this with full squat somehow?
So is Charles Poliquin lying or just has reading comprehension issues?
Besides muscle activation, safety is also a consideration, which Poliquin fails to consider in this article.
Deep squats seem to be bad for the knees: exercisebiology.com/index.php/site/articles/are_deep_squats_bad_for_your_knees/
lookgreatnaked.com/articles/are_deep_squats_a_safe_and_viable_exercise.pdf
Very disappointing. Makes me wonder if other Poliquin articles that I’ve read in the past are also giving wrong information.
“3) Full squats are superior to half or quarter squats. In a comparison of squats to parallel and half or quarter squats, muscle activation is highest in the last phase of the descent and first phase of the ascent. In simple terms, your muscles are working hardest as you go from parallel to a deep squat and vice versa.”
Look at the actual study he references:
Clark, D., Lambert, M., et al. Muscle Activation in the Loaded Free Barbell Squat: A Brief Review. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 2012. 26(4), 1169-1178.
lafitness.com.br/biblioteca/artigos/muscle-activation-in-the-loaded-free-barbell-squat-a-brief-review.pdf
From the actual study:
1. “Muscle activation is not different in squats to varying depths at moderate loads. Within a parallel squat, it appears that activation is greatest in the last phase of the descent and the first phase of the ascent.”
2. “Only gluteus maximus activation increases with squat depth”
Also from the study: “Pereira et al. (25), however, divided the eccentric and concentric movements into 30 (degree ) segments and found that activation was highest for the deepest segment of both phases in a RM parallel squat.”
So from this we see that approaching parallel in the parallel squat has higher activation than closer to standing up; maybe Poliquin confused this with full squat somehow?
So is Charles Poliquin lying or just has reading comprehension issues?
Besides muscle activation, safety is also a consideration, which Poliquin fails to consider in this article.
Deep squats seem to be bad for the knees: exercisebiology.com/index.php/site/articles/are_deep_squats_bad_for_your_knees/
lookgreatnaked.com/articles/are_deep_squats_a_safe_and_viable_exercise.pdf
Very disappointing. Makes me wonder if other Poliquin articles that I’ve read in the past are also giving wrong information.
herderdude
Well-known member
Sounds like you need to get your head out of the books and under a squat bar.
Find me a chronic half-squatter with good lower body development and healthy knees. If you can, kudos. I'll then show you one hundred guys with better lower body development and healthy knees that use full squats.