squats

I do squats 3 times a week and in just a little over a month I have already gotten a lot of improvement in my legs and butt... But I also do straight legged deadlifts and run daily, so that helps, too I do different types of squats, some with weight and some without... I have a love/hate relationship with them lol

Exactly this for me too. but i dont run daily.

Body weight squats are really only useful for getting your heart rate up, I can't really see anyone putting on any muscle doing those.

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How has this thread gone three pages without anyone mentioning that the OP is wearing black panties with a lifting belt? Seriously, what is up with that profile picture?

Black panties ? You do know the OP is a guy ?

Do panties stop being panties just because a man wears them? Those are panties.

They don't look like it because the black continues above the belt, so I'm thinking something along

Where is the arrow pointing to the semi boner in that pic?

Hey now.


We don't boner-shame here.


(Wait; what??)

I squat heavy(45 lbs in a backpack) three times a week and started a body-weight squat challenge 6 days ago. So yea, I'm squatting a lot. I can feel my quad muscles more and my bum is getting into some sort of shape. lol

I squat heavy with a 35 pound bar.

If your legs hurt after squats it's almost certainly due to improper form. Squats are awesome, but they are tough to do correctly. There's a lot going on. The good news is there's only one or two main points to really worry about when starting.

1: Don't let your knees go past your toes. You do this by angling your toes outward and driving your hips back.
2: Keep the weight of the bar over your heels. You should be able to lift your toes off the ground.

Thank you for this!

even tho it's incorrect?

But the tone was nice...

...and that's what matters most in the MFP forums.

I squat heavy(45 lbs in a backpack) three times a week and started a body-weight squat challenge 6 days ago. So yea, I'm squatting a lot. I can feel my quad muscles more and my bum is getting into some sort of shape. lol

I squat heavy with a 35 pound bar.

Look at the legs of distance runners and you'll see what lots of reps at low or no weight does for your legs. If that's what your goal is then by all means do lots and lots of squats and I say hooray for you.

If you want your legs to get stronger, ignore all the people who are trying to stroke your ego by calling it heavy, and keep adding weight to your squats so that you can only do 5-8 reps at a time. Body weight squats will not get you very far. And while 45 pounds is more than no extra weight, unless you are a toddler or dealing with an injury it is a small fraction of what your legs are already able to do so it won't get you much farther. Your body will adapt quickly and stop progressing unless you keep challenging it. If you keep adding a little (like 5 pounds) each squat day you should expect to progress to something way bigger than 45 pounds (in the ballpark of your own body weight on the bar) and that amount will do a LOT more for your legs than 45 pounds will.

If your goal is a momentary ego boost of calling something "heavy" then keep doing the same weight. If your goal is a longer term fitness benefit then keep adding to your squat weights. (You will also get the ego boost every time you squat heavier than the last time.)

Doing weights WILL Help you loose weight. Lifting weights builds lean muscle, lean musle burns more calories. I lost 25lbs. In the begining I was only doing cardio and nothing was happending got wiht a trainer who told me I needed to start doing weights and bam the weight started coming off. So think again about the comment and do your research you will find TONS of information on why it is important to build lean muscle to loose weight.

If your legs hurt after squats it's almost certainly due to improper form.

Please don't listen to this, ever. Muscle soreness after lifting is perfectly normal

I was explaining why 45 lbs is not "heavy" for squats. Just because the other two were obnoxious about it doesn't mean they're wrong.

neither is

250 or more lbs.

This site is mostly dedicated for HEAVY LIFTERS, more so than for those just on losing weight. LIFTING HEAVY is the main topic of the posts, and those who don't lift heavy in the HEAVY'S eyesights may as well not even say anything about what they are lifting. To me lifting heavy is lifting my fat *kitten* up to start my exercises. to me squatting heavy is just me myself and I trying our darn best to do 10 sets of squats with no weights. OP i commend you for being able to to that and share it with us, but the heavies dont think you are doing squat.

Don't worry, the so-called heavies don't actually lift that heavy either.

This site is mostly dedicated for HEAVY LIFTERS, more so than for those just on losing weight. LIFTING HEAVY is the main topic of the posts, and those who don't lift heavy in the HEAVY'S eyesights may as well not even say anything about what they are lifting. To me lifting heavy is lifting my fat *kitten* up to start my exercises. to me squatting heavy is just me myself and I trying our darn best to do 10 sets of squats with no weights. OP i commend you for being able to to that and share it with us, but the heavies dont think you are doing squat.

This site has nothing to do with heavy lifting, it is about fitness.

And those who do heavy lifting fight an uphill battle every day trying to convinvce people that heavy lifting actually works.

I would hardly say that is the mark of a site dedicated to heavy lifters. Maybe you have MFP confused with bodybuilding.com