Weightlifting for Kiwis - Discussion and support regarding the art of swole

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I was always taught to make the 7, that is to say, thighs/quads parallel to the ground, knees bent under them

Is that not the proper form?
 
The I Scream Man said:
I was always taught to make the 7, that is to say, thighs/quads parallel to the ground, knees bent under them

Is that not the proper form?
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For max hypertrophy you want to go ass to grass as low as possible.

For powerlifting you want hip crease below knee crease.

For normal dude just working out in a gym just go as low as you comfortably can.
 
The I Scream Man said:
I was always taught to make the 7, that is to say, thighs/quads parallel to the ground, knees bent under them

Is that not the proper form?
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parallel is the bare minimum you should be shooting for. going all the way down and back up will hit all leg + core muscles. ideally the strain should be felt in the back of your thighs and buttocks.
 
The I Scream Man said:
I was always taught to make the 7, that is to say, thighs/quads parallel to the ground, knees bent under them

Is that not the proper form?
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One of the only useful things I ever read on /fit/ was that if you stop above parallel it puts a massive strain on your knees -- something about shear force due to angles or something idk I'm not a physicist -- so you want to go below parallel just to avoid injury in the long term.


Aside from that it probably doesn't matter that much.
 
dick brain said:
One of the only useful things I ever read on /fit/ was that if you stop above parallel it puts a massive strain on your knees -- something about shear force due to angles or something idk I'm not a physicist
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Well one of the only useful things you ever read is complete nonsense, you can lift significantly more by doing shitty half reps above parallel with less force on your knees. Tons of people ego lift like this.
 
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dick brain said:
One of the only useful things I ever read on /fit/ was that if you stop above parallel it puts a massive strain on your knees -- something about shear force due to angles or something idk I'm not a physicist -- so you want to go below parallel just to avoid injury in the long term.


Aside from that it probably doesn't matter that much.
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never squatted above parallel and I think why is I read this same thing early on. Makes me cringe to think about it. almost 10 years powerlifting and never had any knee pain.
 
sodaboard said:
if you're not squatting ass to grass every time you're not squatting at all.
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if you are doing barbell squats for hypertrophy, in a comercial gym, unless you really really like it, I don't see the point. Machines hit the muscle in a much more targeted and effective way, plus they don't add stress to your spine and you can go closer to failure.
I stopped doing squats when I started to feel pain in my hips in my regular life, and I got bigger and stronger legs by doing hack squats, leg presses and leg extensions for quads, and machine hip thrusts and leg curls for hams
 
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Found this in another thread
 
Agree on leg machines. They're almost always available during busy days too since most people seem to ignore them. And speaking of equipment availability..

dick brain said:
Who's ready for January
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The January's already inside the building for me. Two highschoolers have been coming in, grabbing a squat/dead platform, racking straight bar for 135 deadlift and then standing around it talking and dicking around on their phones for 40+ minutes. I saw one of them do a set of 3 reps on it once. Mostly only noticed because I was on the platform next to them and got my bar racked, did my sets/rests, then tore down and put the bar away without seeing either of them touch theirs.
 
>sitting your fat ass down between sets so you can scroool for five minutes
>claiming to be using the bench when you're just standing behind it spamming shoulder raises
>stealing equipment when the user is merely refilling their water bottle and having the gall to claim they thought they were done even though all my shit is still there
>taking mirror selfies
>taking any selfies or any pictures of anything, faggot if you have energy for scroooling and selfies you're ready for another set
>wearing a headband and goyshark crap when you look like a melted down bag of dog food
>being a "man" and putting on a belt and straps to bench 1pl8
>collaring your 1pl8 deadlift
>bouncing your 1pl8 deadlift
>curling in the squat rack
>doing pull ups in the squat rack
>doing dumbbell bullshit in the squat rack
>using the rack or any other limited space in the gym for anything other than its intended purpose

Total resolootioner death. And this is just the holiday break wave, what sort of gorillanigger avalanche am I gonna have to deal with first week of January? Where are these people coming from? Why is it so bad this year? The past couple of years have had little/no noticeable activity bump to the point where I wondered if the resolutioner meme was dead.
 
The couple of gyms I can use have been completely dead in December. All the sales are over and full price membership means any one wanting to join for their New Year New Me would be better joining the slightly posher one for a few quid more.

I’m hoping this is a prediction and not cope.
 
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