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Old 03-30-2007, 01:06 PM
Darkhorse Darkhorse is offline
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Lookin' good in here.. You've come a long way..

Thoughts about the squat (in general). I've done both olympic with a close stance as well as a super wide parallel (slightly below still). I've found that my ass to the grass squat is CLOSE in weight to parallel, but I feel more comfortable O squatting. Since moving from powerlifting back into a hypertrophy routine, I've tried BOTH variations to find my groove. The wide never felt comfortable for me, and doing a lot of repetitions ass to the grass puts more stress on my lower back region. Long story short, I had to incorperate both, basically widening out my stance further than Olympic, and squatting down about 1-2" below parallel without sitting on my calves like I used to. Since I switched my form, I've added another 20 lbs AND another 4 reps to my previous week where I was really exerting myself.

Keep that in mind when you move on to another type of programming with something like 4 sets of 6-10 reps.
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