crazy squats?

[julius kelp]

i'm a 6'4" ecto, so my squat will never be great. however, i'm determined to get better. i've tried many variations of squats. low weight/higher reps(i fatigue, seems more "aerobic") higher weight/lower reps(form deteriorates, get shallower) i was thinking about a crazy scheme. what if i treated squats the way the "military" might treat pushups, pullups, or the like? i.e. do squats every day. not crazy death vomit squats, just lots & lots of reps accumulating. i would hope good form at least would become second nature. is this madness? :woohoo:

 

[SilentScream27]

i'm a 6'4" ecto, so my squat will never be great. however, i'm determined to get better. i've tried many variations of squats. low weight/higher reps(i fatigue, seems more "aerobic") higher weight/lower reps(form deteriorates, get shallower) i was thinking about a crazy scheme. what if i treated squats the way the "military" might treat pushups, pullups, or the like? i.e. do squats every day. not crazy death vomit squats, just lots & lots of reps accumulating. i would hope good form at least would become second nature. is this madness? :woohoo:

this is a good way to overtrain. You need to strengthen your lower back and abs; you need to perform a partial good morning to squat to parallel (at your size).

 

[fedaykin]

i'm a 6'4" ecto, so my squat will never be great. however, i'm determined to get better. i've tried many variations of squats. low weight/higher reps(i fatigue, seems more "aerobic") higher weight/lower reps(form deteriorates, get shallower) i was thinking about a crazy scheme. what if i treated squats the way the "military" might treat pushups, pullups, or the like? i.e. do squats every day. not crazy death vomit squats, just lots & lots of reps accumulating. i would hope good form at least would become second nature. is this madness? :woohoo:

Check out some of the stuff that Pavel writes about. Do a search on "Greese the groove". I also feel that a WSB template would be good for you. Lots of variations of squats to bring up your weak points. Good luck.

 

[ryansm]

I work squat variations up to four times per week. It depends on the volume, and type of trainng you are doing, or looking to do.

 

[Gdawg]

There was actually a recent article over at T-nation discussing high frequency training for a specific body part. You might want to got take a look at it. I didn't really read it so I can't comment on it, but I noticed it was in the last e-mail update I got from them.

 

[julius kelp]

all good thoughts. i was trying some box squatting until i got back on the superdrol a couple of weeks ago. thought i'd get back to more of a hypertrophy mode. i love deadlifts & good mornings, i have some really undesirable leverages for moves like squats/presses. i am pretty wide in the hips (will never have that bodybuilder v look) more of a rectangle shape! which should be good for squatting i would think. legs are just too long.

 

[julius kelp]

the pavel stuff is what i was getting at "synaptic facilitation" i asked dave tate years ago how anyone could get away with training muscle groups several times a week like westside, he said, look at the military, they do pushups day in & day out & they don't overtrain. (paraphrase!)