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View Poll Results: Below Parallel, Parallel, or Half Squat-What do you do?
Below Parallel 7 70.00%
Parallel 3 30.00%
Half Squat 0 0%
"I dont do Squat" 0 0%
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Old 03-24-2008, 08:31 PM   #1
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Default Below Parallel, Parallel, or Half Squat???
Just curious as to what everyone prefers/does. I personally do Parallel Squat but was curious as to what others do and WHY... I do it becuase that is how I was taught, nothing more haha
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Old 03-24-2008, 08:46 PM   #2
 
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I was taught the ass to ankles approach
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I was taught the ass to ankles approach
Gotcha so way BELow! i think my knees would shit out if I did that! haha thanks for the info Crader!
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The deep you go the more stretch you get out of it. But form means more than injury!!
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The deep you go the more stretch you get out of it. But form means more than injury!!
Right on... Squat is definetly one of the lifts I pay extra attention to forum!
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Though I will admit one of my favorite things to do is watch the guy with the squat spotter
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hahaha we all have our motivation!
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Yep It cracks me up everytime!
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I always go ass-2-grass. I used to go just parallel but my squats got pretty heavy, and my knees got worse. Being unsure of what caused it I backed off heavy squats and started experimenting. I started off doing a2g squats and my knees started feeling much better. My best guesstimation is because my muscles were getting stronger than my tendons, but squatting all the way down allowed for the tendons to strengthen and stretch too. Anyways, thats what I do now and I have noticed great growth since I started doing it, and my knees feel much better (outside of tearing my right one in jiu jitsu, but that is a completely seperate issue)
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hmmmm, I'd say parallel for knee safety, IF doing heavy weights, however, the lower you go the more hams/glutes are involved, so it does add a stretch to the quads, but more stress, I'd say to a slight degree, esp with more ham/glute involvement....

I've seen ppl say I go to ass-to-ankles, then you watch em squat, and only some of the reps are even parallel, the rest, not so much, so take as you will.....
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