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SQUATS: Why you need them and how to them right.

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edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Awesome article on how to do squats. I never knew they were this awesome. Also, the article on dead lifting is really aspiring too.

Great fitness reading here, guys! Check it out.

http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/07/08/why-you-need-squats-in-your-workout-and-how-to-do-them-right/

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  • Posts: 12,142 Member
    "There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat."

    Mark Rippetoe
  • Posts: 1,078 Member
    I hadn't done squats in like over a month , because I was having knee issues and I did them on saturday and it felt great, my legs are still sore.
  • Posts: 6,375 Member
    Squats are wonderful.
  • Posts: 406 Member
    Shots make the world a better place!
  • Posts: 406 Member
    Shots make the world a better place!
    Squats!! Squats, Not shots! Although shots do too :P
    Watching Jersey Shore and posting is dangerous for your health!
  • Posts: 511 Member
    "There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat."

    Mark Rippetoe

    Word.
  • Posts: 6,375 Member
    Squats!! Squats, Not shots! Although shots do too :P
    Watching Jersey Shore and posting is dangerous for your health!

    I say doing shots while doing squats would make one helluva drinking game.
  • Posts: 398 Member
    Do a squat, take a shot. She who remains standing longest, wins. :drinker:
  • I :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: squats! :D



    and shots..... :D
  • Posts: 207 Member
    lol...i love squats and i love shots even more...I may try this squat/shot game at my next shindig, feel a little less guilty about drinking!
  • Posts: 1,805 Member
    The guy in the video in the link isn't actually getting enough depth it looks like.
  • Posts: 938 Member
    Because of squats, as soon as my waist was small enough for my goal wait dress I couldn't get it to cover my bubble butt :P
  • Posts: 14
    Squats and Lunges!! my 2 favourite exercises!!!!!!!
  • Posts: 398 Member
    Because of squats, as soon as my waist was small enough for my goal wait dress I couldn't get it to cover my bubble butt :P

    Small waist AND a bubble butt? Sign me up!!
  • Posts: 157
    "There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat."

    Mark Rippetoe

    I would have to disagree, respectively, with Mr. Rippetoe. The power clean, the clean and jerk and the snatch exercises put a greater amount of stress on the human body in every way. Squats are definitely right up there though, and you have to respect the squat exercise because a lot of people get hurt doing squats incorrectly.
  • Word up, yo!
  • Posts: 74 Member
    Awesome! Thanks for posting :smile: :flowerforyou:
  • Posts: 138 Member
    Thanks!
  • Posts: 1,275 Member
    Great article, thanks for sharing! The 10-min vid was definitely worth watching, I'll be keeping those things in mind when I squat tomorrow. :smile:
  • Posts: 450 Member
    I have a love/hate relationship with squats - love what they do but hate having to do them - luckily the love relationship is flourishing more than the hate relationship lately :-)

    Happy Squatting!
  • Posts: 1,451 Member
    The guy in the video in the link isn't actually getting enough depth it looks like.

    Yep, he definitely isn't parallel. :/
  • Posts: 1,103 Member
    Good information to pass along! My last attempt at vigorous exercise (boxercise,) a few years ago, ended with painfully swollen knees. We did a lot of squats, but weren't taught to do them correctly. My Chalean Extreme DVDs explained how they're done to protect knees, and it's worked! While I still have some swelling from a knee injury incurred a few months ago, I've found the squats and lunges aren't damaging when done correctly. Hooray!

    I think the second video on the website is particularly helpful.
  • Posts: 191 Member
    Thank you!!
  • Posts: 139
    Shots make the world a better place!

    Haha! Love it :-)
  • Posts: 139
    Because of squats, as soon as my waist was small enough for my goal wait dress I couldn't get it to cover my bubble butt :P

    There is NOTHING wrong with a bubble butt! ;)
  • Posts: 113 Member
    I would have to disagree, respectively, with Mr. Rippetoe. The power clean, the clean and jerk and the snatch exercises put a greater amount of stress on the human body in every way. Squats are definitely right up there though, and you have to respect the squat exercise because a lot of people get hurt doing squats incorrectly.

    I would have to respectively agree with you. If people would only give any clean exercise a chance I think they would end up surprising themselves with how much weight they can move and how it really changes your body composition from beach muscles (shoulders / biceps) to functional strength (bum, hips, core) to mental strength.
  • Posts: 2,382
    Is it weird that squats turn me on? lol :love:
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    oops double post
  • Posts: 1,036 Member
    Pfff... rookies! Only 7 Krispy Kremes?
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