Squats are a terrible exercise!!!
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10 Reasons Squats Are A Terrible ExerciseYou know what day it is, right? Step back from the rack and save your knees and spine from the dreaded squat! If you can go to the link, do so, the pictures really illustrate why they are so bad for you!
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/10-reasons-squats-are-a-terrible-exercise.html?mcid=face
# 10 is the most convincing!!!
It is well documented that squats are a horrible exercise choice for anyone who actually cares about their body. They are reckless, dangerous, and an inefficient use of your time. You're better off doing basically anything else. Here are 10 reasons why this is so:
1 / Squats Hurt Your Knees We all know this to be true, especially if you squat anywhere near to parallel. All of those Olympic weightlifters, pro athletes, powerlifters and bodybuilders who squat all the way down are genetic outliers with divinely engineered knee joints. Plus, steroids.
2 / Squats Require You to Place a Loaded Barbell on Top of Your Spine! It's practically in direct contact with the vertebra. This is just stupid.
It would be different if there were some kind of muscle group there, maybe trapezoidal in shape, that could form a cushion between the bar and your delicate spinal structure; but since that hasn't yet been discovered, this statement is 100 percent accurate.
3 / You Just Don't Need Squats to Build Muscular, Strong Legs Focusing on things like leg presses, leg extensions and lunges is a far more effective way to build great legs. All those lifters who used squats were on steroids, and that's the only reason they got results. You need to train the small, assistance muscles in order to pull the skin closer to the muscle anyway.
4 / The Back Squat is More of a Low-back Exercise than a Leg Exercise Anyway Just look at the name: back squat. Plus, the physics says so. If my math is correct—and according to my doctorate in Mathology from the Correspondence College of Nigeria, it is—the following formula illustrates my point perfectly: L2*Sq=(R3/3I)531.
I won't bore you by actually explaining what any of that means in terms that any normal person could actually understand. Suffice it to say back squats are terrible for your spine. Anyone who says differently is probably on steroids.
5 / It Won't Help Your Performance in Sports No sport outside of powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting or CrossFit requires you to place a load on your back and lift it straight up. Therefore, squats are not a functional exercise. So why waste your time? It's not like the ability to exert force using a rigid, neutral trunk and activating the musculature of the hips, knees and torso is ever going to come about in everyday life.
6 / I Know this Dude Whose Friend Went to School with a Navy SEAL Who Says Squats Suck This point is axiomatic.
7 / Heavy Squats, on Top of Destroying Your Knees and Back, Will Make You Slow Everyone knows that lifts that move slow make you slow. Therefore, heavy squats will hurt athletic performance.
8 / Squatting Is Too Hard on the Central Nervous System (CNS) Squatting more than once per month will totally burn out your CNS and lead to overtraining. Nobody in the history of lifting has ever been successful by squatting more than once per week max. Nobody. I dare you to find one. The Bulgarians were all on steroids.
9 / The Olde Time Strongmen Didn't Do Squats If they didn't do them, you don't need to do them. These dudes were jacked and strong and we're all *kitten* nowadays because we don't do anything they used to do. Including putting extra Es on of the ende of stuffe that doesn't neede it. And why didn't they squat? Because, there were no steroids back then.
April Foolin' I know some of you trolls out there are going to say that these are only nine reasons. First of all, remember my Mathology Doctorate. Second, you're probably all on steroids.
Therefore, nothing you have to say regarding training is evenly remotely applicable to us natty lifters. Happy April Fools' Day, fool!
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/10-reasons-squats-are-a-terrible-exercise.html?mcid=face
# 10 is the most convincing!!!
It is well documented that squats are a horrible exercise choice for anyone who actually cares about their body. They are reckless, dangerous, and an inefficient use of your time. You're better off doing basically anything else. Here are 10 reasons why this is so:
1 / Squats Hurt Your Knees We all know this to be true, especially if you squat anywhere near to parallel. All of those Olympic weightlifters, pro athletes, powerlifters and bodybuilders who squat all the way down are genetic outliers with divinely engineered knee joints. Plus, steroids.
2 / Squats Require You to Place a Loaded Barbell on Top of Your Spine! It's practically in direct contact with the vertebra. This is just stupid.
It would be different if there were some kind of muscle group there, maybe trapezoidal in shape, that could form a cushion between the bar and your delicate spinal structure; but since that hasn't yet been discovered, this statement is 100 percent accurate.
3 / You Just Don't Need Squats to Build Muscular, Strong Legs Focusing on things like leg presses, leg extensions and lunges is a far more effective way to build great legs. All those lifters who used squats were on steroids, and that's the only reason they got results. You need to train the small, assistance muscles in order to pull the skin closer to the muscle anyway.
4 / The Back Squat is More of a Low-back Exercise than a Leg Exercise Anyway Just look at the name: back squat. Plus, the physics says so. If my math is correct—and according to my doctorate in Mathology from the Correspondence College of Nigeria, it is—the following formula illustrates my point perfectly: L2*Sq=(R3/3I)531.
I won't bore you by actually explaining what any of that means in terms that any normal person could actually understand. Suffice it to say back squats are terrible for your spine. Anyone who says differently is probably on steroids.
5 / It Won't Help Your Performance in Sports No sport outside of powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting or CrossFit requires you to place a load on your back and lift it straight up. Therefore, squats are not a functional exercise. So why waste your time? It's not like the ability to exert force using a rigid, neutral trunk and activating the musculature of the hips, knees and torso is ever going to come about in everyday life.
6 / I Know this Dude Whose Friend Went to School with a Navy SEAL Who Says Squats Suck This point is axiomatic.
7 / Heavy Squats, on Top of Destroying Your Knees and Back, Will Make You Slow Everyone knows that lifts that move slow make you slow. Therefore, heavy squats will hurt athletic performance.
8 / Squatting Is Too Hard on the Central Nervous System (CNS) Squatting more than once per month will totally burn out your CNS and lead to overtraining. Nobody in the history of lifting has ever been successful by squatting more than once per week max. Nobody. I dare you to find one. The Bulgarians were all on steroids.
9 / The Olde Time Strongmen Didn't Do Squats If they didn't do them, you don't need to do them. These dudes were jacked and strong and we're all *kitten* nowadays because we don't do anything they used to do. Including putting extra Es on of the ende of stuffe that doesn't neede it. And why didn't they squat? Because, there were no steroids back then.
April Foolin' I know some of you trolls out there are going to say that these are only nine reasons. First of all, remember my Mathology Doctorate. Second, you're probably all on steroids.
Therefore, nothing you have to say regarding training is evenly remotely applicable to us natty lifters. Happy April Fools' Day, fool!
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Hey, I'm a genetic outlier with divinely engineered knee joints.
Score!! :bigsmile:
Also, well done. :flowerforyou:
*goes back to squatting*0 -
Hey, I'm a genetic outlier with divinely engineered knee joints.
Score!! :bigsmile:
Also, well done. :flowerforyou:
*goes back to squatting*
The best part was this was the first thing I saw in my FB feed after I left the gym feeling all proud of myself for doing awesome on my squats! I was like - oh no! and ba-zinga!0 -
:noway: Sat here frowning all the way until Mathology. Then, realized this was a joke. :laugh:
<-- slow on the uptake today..........:blushing:0 -
That article was wrote by Chris over at Train Better Fitness awhile back actually.....I follow him on my FB and he showed that BB.com put it up today and I started laughing like crazy!
Loved the play on sarcasm weeks ago when I read it and still do today!0 -
# 10 is the most convincing!!!
I was annoyed there was no more hilarity...0 -
# 10 is the most convincing!!!
I was annoyed there was no more hilarity...
LOL
I added that to make sure peeps would read through 'till the end...I almost didn't and I was like what the frick is this crap? Since it was on BB.com and all :noway:0 -
Great thread! LOL
Watch this show up in one of the other Message Boards here and all the Squatting Haters will come out of the woodworks to defend it!0 -
That article was wrote by Chris over at Train Better Fitness awhile back actually.....I follow him on my FB and he showed that BB.com put it up today and I started laughing like crazy!
Loved the play on sarcasm weeks ago when I read it and still do today!
The comments he got on his blog were hilarious. So many people missed the joke.0 -
That article was wrote by Chris over at Train Better Fitness awhile back actually.....I follow him on my FB and he showed that BB.com put it up today and I started laughing like crazy!
Loved the play on sarcasm weeks ago when I read it and still do today!
The comments he got on his blog were hilarious. So many people missed the joke.
Oh totally! He commented on his FB actually about all the haters that came out and the kind of comments he got after he put it up the first time. I can only imagine the comments that he'll get from the BB.com crowd :laugh:0 -
Too hilarious. Thanks for posting!0
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I was prepared to be all offended. I hate April Fools day :grumble:0
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I was prepared to be all offended. I hate April Fools day :grumble:
Dude from NerdFitness totally got me going for a while with his April Fool update e-mail ... :huh:
Well played, sir, well played.0 -
I was prepared to be all offended. I hate April Fools day :grumble:
Dude from NerdFitness totally got me going for a while with his April Fool update e-mail ... :huh:
Well played, sir, well played.
Redbox sent me one about them starting to carry luncheon meat in their boxes. All the while I am thinking how the h3ll are they going to keep it cold and frankly that is just nasty. Grrrrrr!0
