omigawwwwwwd i hate squats

canadianlbs
canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
great big long rant full of swear words
i hate them. i hate them in all the ways - upways, downways, sideways, backwards. and if i don't lie awake at night thinking up new ways for them to hurt me, my body goes ahead and invents them for me.

squats are like that abusive dickface partner with the well-disguised mental disorder who's sane and civilized for a few weeks in the year, for no reason that you can really work out. and then just as you're settling down and starting to see a future, they invent new and creative ways to make sure you'll keep hating them.

except you can dump the dickface partner when it's clearly obvious that it just isn't going to work out. probably get at least a potted plant or a few dvds from the deal. with squats you can't even do that.

thank you all. i feel, not exactly better now, but at least i feel purged.

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  • Acrawford01
    Acrawford01 Posts: 29 Member
    Nothing is worse than squats!!!!
  • jessef593
    jessef593 Posts: 2,272 Member
    Good chance you're doing them wrong if they're causing that much displeasure.
  • Acrawford01
    Acrawford01 Posts: 29 Member
    I love what they do for me, I just hate doing them. It's my problem lol squats are great
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    of course i'm doing them 'wrong'. don't be silly :p

    in my defence, even when i do them 'right' they're still wrong. i've had people whose own form is exquisite compliment me about mine and then ask why i 'never increase in weight'. because up around three figures in weight, they'll arbitrarily start to hurt me somewhere no matter how clean my form is or how careful i was on the way. then i back down to the bar or the goblet form, experiment and tinker around and adjust, and start climbing the ladder again. i've been working on this for two years and have not yet found a form that remains painless for me past a few months and 100 pounds max.

    so just leave me to my moping and hatred, wouldja?
  • jolive7
    jolive7 Posts: 283 Member
    Things that are uncomfortable and challenging are great for you.. one day you will love them!
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Consider finding a different squat variation that you like more. Standard (back) squats are not required unless you intend to compete in them.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Don't get it

    Squats are my favourite

    Tough to do and make me feel powerful when done

    If you hate em don't do em
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    I hate them too so I don't do them. I do deadlifts instead. *shrug*
  • GymRatSF
    GymRatSF Posts: 8,903 Member
    Love squats! Did the Corey Gregory squat challenge and did squats 100 days straight. Glad today is legs day!!
  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    Sued0nim wrote: »
    Don't get it

    Squats are my favourite

    Tough to do and make me feel powerful when done

    If you hate em don't do em

    agreed. they are probably my favorite (other than deadlifts or hip thrusts), but there are sooo many other movements you could do besides just squatting if you hate them.
  • 143353326
    143353326 Posts: 14 Member
    It's always very tough and painful to do squats but their results always make me to repeat it. If you don't like to do squats than you can skip it and can found some other effective exercises.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Wow over react much.

    You don't have to like them. But what you've written is extremely excessive and possibly offensive to people.

    If you don't like them that much I'd wager you are doing them wrong or other mind blowing option: find something else.
    Or. Yet still. Suck it up and do the work if it's part of your chosen plan. When you plan ends. Do something less squat centric.
  • KHS86
    KHS86 Posts: 29 Member
    edited September 2016
    canadianlbs wrote: »
    of course i'm doing them 'wrong'. don't be silly :p

    in my defence, even when i do them 'right' they're still wrong. i've had people whose own form is exquisite compliment me about mine and then ask why i 'never increase in weight'. because up around three figures in weight, they'll arbitrarily start to hurt me somewhere no matter how clean my form is or how careful i was on the way. then i back down to the bar or the goblet form, experiment and tinker around and adjust, and start climbing the ladder again. i've been working on this for two years and have not yet found a form that remains painless for me past a few months and 100 pounds max.

    so just leave me to my moping and hatred, wouldja?

    I had the same problem.. I'm still struggling with adding weight on the bar, but now they don't hurt.

    I bought a pair of squat shoes, so the issue for me was ankle mobility. I put the weight on my toes to get in the right position when I sat down. It didn't even feel like I had the weight on my toes, because I was actively trying to keep the weight on mid foot, but it just *kitten* up my form. I just know that the shoes have helped a ton, I can now do squats without fearing my back snapping, and having to walk around with permanent back injuries like i did before, always hurting.

    And the weight problem will get solved later when I get even better at my form, I will not give up. You shouldn't either.

    If lifting is a big part of your life, (seeing you've been lifting for 2 years, it probably is) invest in a pair of squat shoes, I promise you, you won't regret it.
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    edited September 2016
    WOW, do you play for the Louisville Cardinals? Because this post was hella offensive.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    canadianlbs wrote: »
    of course i'm doing them 'wrong'. don't be silly :p

    in my defence, even when i do them 'right' they're still wrong. i've had people whose own form is exquisite compliment me about mine and then ask why i 'never increase in weight'. because up around three figures in weight, they'll arbitrarily start to hurt me somewhere no matter how clean my form is or how careful i was on the way. then i back down to the bar or the goblet form, experiment and tinker around and adjust, and start climbing the ladder again. i've been working on this for two years and have not yet found a form that remains painless for me past a few months and 100 pounds max.

    so just leave me to my moping and hatred, wouldja?

    You should never have pain when lifting. Do other "leg" exercises hurt you? If not either your form is off, you have mobility issues, or both. I would be interested to see a video of your squat.
  • Lizarking
    Lizarking Posts: 507 Member
    LazSommer wrote: »
    oh boy have you considered the extreme benefits of the

    LEG PRESS?
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    yeah, unnatural loading and movement with none of the full body benefits of the squat.

    Hard pass.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,713 Member
    I pulled a hamstring a couple weeks ago pulling heavy doubles on deadlift day. Took a week completely leg-free, today I felt good enough to test my hamstring by doing some light (50%) squats. Felt WONDERFUL to be able to move freely once again. Glad I didn't go heavier this week as I could just start to feel my hamstring objecting, but next week I'll do 60%, and so on until I'm back to normal.

    LOVE the squat! It's heavier than my deadlift, and my heaviest bench press is less than my WARMUP for squat.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    julierockhead wrote: »
    How is OP being offensive? Criminy, can't people even complain creatively anymore without the PC police finding out? If you are humor impaired, I feel for you, but please allow the rest of us to laugh a bit.

    I *kitten* HATE squats. But they are giving me thigh definition and lifting my sagging middle aged *kitten* right up, so I do them.

    How is the op being offensive? Hmm, let's consider the specific form of abuse she decided to try and compare squats to. It's being belittled over the slightest, smallest perceived error. It's being gas lighted until that person can tell you the sky is green and you'll agree with them because you no longer trust your own senses. It's slowly losing your identity as you give up everything that makes you, you, in an effort to appease them.

    It's getting isolated from your friends and family. Dealing with the constant, non stop projecting of their issues onto you. Falling for that sweet honeymoon phase again and again, and each time it's over, being that much more broken. It's abuse so subtle that it's essentially undocumentable.

    When you seek help out to get out of the situation, you get told again and again how devestated they are that you're being abused, but the resources simply aren't there to help you. Unless you can force an escalation into physical abuse the resources just aren't there.

    So yes, the op was being highly offensive.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,713 Member
    Is that what was covered by the "spoiler-show" button? Because all I see is "great big long rant full of swear words". I haven't clicked the button, and if that's what's revealed, I don't wanna.
  • Lizarking
    Lizarking Posts: 507 Member
    julierockhead wrote: »
    But they are giving me thigh definition and lifting my sagging middle aged *kitten* right up, so I do them.

    I do love the MFP swear filter.

  • serapel
    serapel Posts: 502 Member
    Willbenchforcupcakes wrote: »
    Don't like squats? Then it's simple. Don't do them. Find a program that doesn't include them.

    I just don't find anything even slightly humorous about comparing them to an anusive partner.

    I don't squat for this reason. I do DL's, BBHT's, lunges, reverse extensions, good mornings, quadrupled hip extension instead.

    There is no holy grail that says you HAVE to squat.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    julierockhead wrote: »
    How is OP being offensive? Criminy, can't people even complain creatively anymore without the PC police finding out? If you are humor impaired, I feel for you, but please allow the rest of us to laugh a bit.

    I *kitten* HATE squats. But they are giving me thigh definition and lifting my sagging middle aged *kitten* right up, so I do them.

    @Willbenchforcupcakes did an excellent job explaining this but the short version

    It's making light of an extremely sensitive subject over something that's COMPLETELY in their power to STOP doing. It's like saying your paper cut hurts as bad as cancer.

    Go ahead- tell your cancer surviving friends that and see how funny they think it is.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    edited September 2016
    JoRocka wrote: »
    It's making light of an extremely sensitive subject

    you make a good point, which tbh simply didn't occur to me. i'm not sure i'm prepared to apologize for the fact that it didn't, since i was speaking from direct personal experience without intending to reference other people's. fact is, the hope-despair-keep-trying-where's-the-love-never-know-if-i'm-going-to-get-hurt experience that is me dealing with squats does remind me very precisely of what it was like living with someone who had borderline personality disorder, and trying really hard to make it work. in nature, not in seriousness. i have enough distance to find that parallel in my own processes funny, and i do think that's my prerogative when i'm just talking with respect to a piece of my own history.

    but i worded it badly by making it sound general instead of specific to my own associations, so that it sounded as if i was applying it globally and trivializing everyone else's experiences with the same thing. if i'd said 'they remind me of this guy i once knew' it would have been a more sensitive call. i guess that's a sorry-not-sorry, kind of. but it's as accurate as i can make it about what i actually think.
    over something that's COMPLETELY in their power to STOP doing. It's like saying your paper cut hurts as bad as cancer.

    very true, but i don't see a parallel in cancer myself. you don't get to quit on cancer, and cancer isn't a thing i'd joke about unless it was mine and i wanted to. fwiw, the reason why i did see a parallel here was precisely because the door is half-open, in theory. in theory you could "just quit" squatting; you could "just quit" a horrible relationship. in practice it's still that thing of never knowing when is the right time to cut line . . . or whether you 'should'. where i was terribly wrong was that i was only thinking of one personal situation. ditching squats doesn't threaten your life or your safety, and in the situation i was thinking about that was the case too. so it seemed to me like a parallel, but that's my fault, because again i wasn't considering the global context. and for that i am fully sorry.

    to the people who just thought i was over the top: well, yeah :p struggling with squats is a pretty first-world kind of problem even if you only measure it against the yardstick of other first-world problems. but eh. squats have been awful for me for two years in spite of all that i've tried to do to fix them and i like to throw a good, hyperbolic, ridiculously-extreme tantrum sometimes when something's really getting me down. it helps me to sulk my way back to good humour again, but that's me.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    You can quit squatting. not cancer.
    that's what I was talking about.

    And I can't for the life of me understand at all how you can at ALL parallel the feelings of an emotional abusive relationship to a dislike of squatting.

    I'm sorry- I cannot comprehend that- it's like apples to paper cuts. it just doesn't make sense.

    I'm sorry you're struggling- and I'm glad you're vent was cathartic for you- and I hope you see some sort of improvements on your squats if you continue to pursue them.

    honestly lifting is extremely technical- and you constantly balance strength with technique.
    You never "arrive"

    I have been lifting all my life- and lifting technically for almost 20 years.

    I still work on my squat- and I have good days and bad days. you never just "arrive" you have to learn to become comfortable with and even to love "the grind".

    Otherwise- you'll constantly be disappointed.
  • musclegood_fatbad
    musclegood_fatbad Posts: 9,809 Member
    I used to hate squats with a passion but it was because I had bad mobility and not the greatest of form. Now that I have worked hard on those two things, squats are a lot more fun. Still a ton of work and hard as can be but at least it is hard in the right way and not painful or hard just to get down to the right position.

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