jathan_howe
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Hey guys! I had a question about my squats.
When I first started squatting, our lifting coach corrected my friend and I's form. He said we were going too deep (I'd rather go too deep than not deep enough though) and he'd correct us whenever we went much below parallel. Anyways, this lead to my partner and I not squatting as low and before you know it, we weren't hitting parallel. My partner had always told me I was hitting correct depth but his idea of parallel was a fair bit off. I could squat about 240 for two or three for my "max" but it was a bit above parallel. Not one of those extremely badcases where they barely even bend their knees and call it a squat, but still not parallel either. My plan is to lower the weight (maybe ~135 or so) and focus more on training depth and building back up. An idea how long this would take? I know strength comes back quick when you've lost it, but in this case I haven't exactly lost strength. I want to restart with weight and hit the rest of the full range of motion. Since the majority of the ROM is trained and adapted, would the untrained portion -being my limiting factor- take full time to be brought up to par since it was never trained up to par in the first place (which makes me feel this will rule out any kind of strength regain, since I'm basically starting over from the beginning and only progressing as fast as hitting the new depth allows)? My second and final question is, since that part of my ROM is relatively untrained, could I expect noob-gains-esque speed of strength gain? That'd be nice as it would help me get back to and above my "max" while actually going parallel this time around
When I first started squatting, our lifting coach corrected my friend and I's form. He said we were going too deep (I'd rather go too deep than not deep enough though) and he'd correct us whenever we went much below parallel. Anyways, this lead to my partner and I not squatting as low and before you know it, we weren't hitting parallel. My partner had always told me I was hitting correct depth but his idea of parallel was a fair bit off. I could squat about 240 for two or three for my "max" but it was a bit above parallel. Not one of those extremely badcases where they barely even bend their knees and call it a squat, but still not parallel either. My plan is to lower the weight (maybe ~135 or so) and focus more on training depth and building back up. An idea how long this would take? I know strength comes back quick when you've lost it, but in this case I haven't exactly lost strength. I want to restart with weight and hit the rest of the full range of motion. Since the majority of the ROM is trained and adapted, would the untrained portion -being my limiting factor- take full time to be brought up to par since it was never trained up to par in the first place (which makes me feel this will rule out any kind of strength regain, since I'm basically starting over from the beginning and only progressing as fast as hitting the new depth allows)? My second and final question is, since that part of my ROM is relatively untrained, could I expect noob-gains-esque speed of strength gain? That'd be nice as it would help me get back to and above my "max" while actually going parallel this time around