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Gym Etiquette: Is it bad to hog a squat rack?
Forty minutes is an absolutely acceptable amount of time to occupy a squat rack. (In the interest of changing your baseline: I know powerlifters who take a station for two hours because that's just ...
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Why is "squatting the deadlift" bad?
The article's explanations for why you shouldn't try to squat a deadlift are wrong.
Positioning your hips too low does not put more stress on the lower back, and does not meaningfully shift your ...
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How to prevent "good morning" when squatting?
What is a "good morning"?
Just to add context, a "good morning" is when you're doing a squat, you go down to the lowest point, but then you extend the knees without maintaining an upright back.
This ...
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What causes me to lean forward on a barbell squat?
This is completely normal. A squat involves bending at the ankles, knees, and hips such that the torso leans forwards throughout the lower portions of the movement. The degree to which it leans ...
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Should squats come last in a workout-plan?
A workout should ideally follow a relatively strict ordering.
(Warm-up)
High-skill/coordination exercises or movements which you are still learning, e.g. agility drills, Olympic lifts, gymnastics
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Why is it easier to lift weight using a belt?
I've often felt there were two aspects to using a weight belt. The first being the psychological sense of security that the belt provides. Belts make us feel “locked in” and ready to lift thus ...
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How much weight should we place on our heel and how much in our forefoot during squat?
There are two goals to aim for when distributing your weight:
You should be in balance, for obvious reasons; and
The combined centre of mass of your body and the bar should only move down and up ...
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Is ass to grass squat natural or a learned behaviour?
Squatting through the full range, or “ass to the grass”, is entirely natural for anyone who possesses normal, healthy function. Once we can stand and walk confidently—that is, by about 1½ or 2 years ...
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Will barbell squats really strengthen back/deltoid/traps muscles?
If you are doing it in proper form, it'll build your middle back, lower back, glutes, legs and it'll also help strength the sides of the abs. Your shoulders and traps should see almost no change.
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How to get rid off Squat Anxiety?
I would try and avoid smith machine squats for the time being. They take away a lot of the supporting strength from traditional barbell squats, and lock you into a very linear movement (i.e. up and ...
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What's the opposite exercise to the squat?
Well, we have to divide the body up into chunks that make sense.
Opposites
For exercises where we push forward, e.g. the pushup, we train mainly chest, triceps, and front deltoid.
For exercises ...
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What exercises to do for posterior chain if I have shin splints?
Shin splints tend only to be affected by impact exercises—running, skipping, and jumping—or exercises that load the tibialis anterior. Squats and deadlifts should neither aggravate your shin splints, ...
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severe pain after squats
What you are feeling is normal. Any time you do a new exercise, or even an old exercise in a new way, you will be pushing your muscles past the point where they are comfortable and making them sore. ...
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Is it Necessary to Make Noise While Deadlifting Or Wear A Belt
Taking your questions one by one:
(1) The eccentric portions of lifts are known to both cause more soreness and be more prone to injury. Combined with the extreme weights that are lifted during a ...
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Squats technique flat feet
A lot of people have this problem, and it's usually caused by short tendons on the back of your ankle. I forget the name... Achilles?
Anyway, there are plently of things you can try in order to fix ...
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I bench and squat way more than what I deadlift?
(Possible) Reasons Why You Squat More Than Deadlift
Your form is bad in both exercises. Without a video or someone checking your form, this can't be (dis)proven.
You don't like deadlifting; as a ...
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Will barbell squats really strengthen back/deltoid/traps muscles?
The lower back is the failure point of back squats, and gets a lot of work out of them. So yes, back squats build the back. Are back squats the best for the lower back? Not always; I find deadlifts ...
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Compare & contrast squat types
When it comes to powerlifting, a large portion of lifters will use a low bar squat which places the bar lower on the back to sit on a muscular shelf made by the rear deltoids. This also allows the ...
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Why is it easier to lift weight using a belt?
In short - belt gives better stabilization.
Why not to use it? Well, you wish to have great stabilization... You would like to use that muscles, not to support them.
Is it cheating - since that is ...
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feet position for squat
There is a very useful analysis of a selection of multiple studies to be found here: http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/exercises/squat/
I'll start out by assuming that you adjust your ...
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Squatting a day after Deadlift
No, there is no obvious problem with squatting on the day after deadlifting. Squatting and deadlifting during the same workout is fairly common, and fine.
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How to best physically prepare for Snowboarding?
Right off the bat I think it needs to be said that snowboarding is largely a technique driven sport. Some high level riders (like Ryan Knapton) are admittedly "too fat and not strong enough", but ...
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Can Pistol Squats replace Barbell Squats?
They're fundamentally different exercises.
If by "replace" you mean:
Can a person do only weighted pistol squats instead of barbell back
squats and live a long and healthy life?
Than the ...
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Abdominal role in squats
Squats train all of the supporting muscles of the torso -- including the anterior/abdominal muscles -- if you use a Valsalva maneuver.
Consider performing each squat repetition using these steps:
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How to prevent "good morning" when squatting?
A "good morning squat" occurs when your knees shift backward at the bottom of the squat. This action takes the load off the quadriceps and places more load onto the glutes and spinal erectors, as the ...
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Are squats on the tip of the feet and bending back good for the legs?
I believe you're describing a Sissy Squat *. This is a great body-weight exercise for developing your quadriceps. However, sissy squats don't work the glutes at all; instead recruiting the hip flexors....
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Why should the knee point outwards in squat?
Short answer: you don't actually need to flare your knees out, but what you do need to do is generate torque in your hips which can be accomplished by attempting to rotate forward-facing feet outward (...
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Taking time off work to weight lift
I'm going to stop you in two places. First, this line:
I want to take a week or more off work, to weightlift everyday, and
increase my lifts as much as I can.
At maximum, and this is if you're ...
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Squat form: hips and ankles
There is a fair amount going on here.
First, the notion of a "correct" squat is open to some interpretation. Nobody would say C) is correct, but B) and A) are debatable.
For instance, if your goal ...
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Why isn't barefoot squatting recommended?
I haven't heard of any reliable sources recommending not squatting barefooted. The only reasons I can think of are probable imbalances (the one Alec suggested) , hygiene issues (some gyms may not like ...
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