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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: My current program
« on: April 23, 2013, 05:27:20 am »
Actually it's written in that program that it's for a high bar squat. That "calculator" had an excel (in the past) that you could download and in that excel it's writted "high bar squat". It usually correlates well for people in between 5'7-5'11 or so and for me it was pretty accurate for low bar squatting too since I can use more weight with the low bar but I'm also taller than that range (and pretty long boned).
The problem with the low bar squat is that the quads just don't grow (for me). When I do low bar squats I feel like my quads are pretty much isometrically contracted and all the actualy concentric work is done by the posterior chain. Who knows at what degree they're actually doing work?
But yeah, I've been doing low bar squats because of the knee issues, that's correct. You're also right about the very wide stance - not being able to get depth with a medium stance (and not having o-lifting shoes) - I had to stay wider to get deeper.
Maybe if I could've use a medium stance and got deep with the low bar squat then more correlation to jumping would've happened.
I don't get why you think I've hopped around programs when I in fact CONSISTENTLY low bar squatted for 2 years or so. Yeah the programming might've been different every now and then but keep in mind some people change it every 8 weeks or so so... what's the big deal?
The problem with the low bar squat is that the quads just don't grow (for me). When I do low bar squats I feel like my quads are pretty much isometrically contracted and all the actualy concentric work is done by the posterior chain. Who knows at what degree they're actually doing work?
But yeah, I've been doing low bar squats because of the knee issues, that's correct. You're also right about the very wide stance - not being able to get depth with a medium stance (and not having o-lifting shoes) - I had to stay wider to get deeper.
Maybe if I could've use a medium stance and got deep with the low bar squat then more correlation to jumping would've happened.
I don't get why you think I've hopped around programs when I in fact CONSISTENTLY low bar squatted for 2 years or so. Yeah the programming might've been different every now and then but keep in mind some people change it every 8 weeks or so so... what's the big deal?
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