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    « Reply #30 on: November 04, 2009, 12:05:28 PM »

    I prefer Lunges instead of Squats.
    Personnally, i dont like to do "hard" exercies for my legs, like Squats and Deadlift.
    I suffer in focus when doing those, and definitly prefer lunges and leg extensions for quads.
    And making a serious mistake by doing that. The only advice I'd give you is to toughen up and do your legs more than twice a week. Your shoulders are already more worked from other upper body work, if one bodypart needs to be sacrificed, it should be them, not the wheels.
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    « Reply #31 on: November 04, 2009, 06:31:55 PM »

    i have had knee problems and only squat with no wight or verry light weights.
    but know i can go up to high weights
    id rather squat than lunge
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    « Reply #32 on: November 05, 2009, 05:29:20 PM »

    Okay, I have to throw in my $0.02 here....

    I used to absolutely love BB squats mainly because my legs responded very well to them in terms of strength and mass gains. I never really liked lunges; I found them awkward and I thought that the timing and balance were weird.

    All was well until I sustained a pretty bad knee injury. For months, I couldn't jog, walk, or even stand without some level of pain. Even now (several months later) I have to be *very* careful to avoid moving my leg through the sweet spot that flips the agony switch to ON.

    I've only recently regained the confidence in my knee stability necessary to do leg workouts. To make a long story short, my beloved squats are out of the question now; my knee complains almost immediately and I have to put the weight down and stop. Lunges, however seem to be OK; I was feeling the good kind of pain the next day, and my fragile left knee had no problems.

    So, I'm voting for lunges as my preferred leg exercise of the two.

    BTW, Magnus, if you're a "high rep, low weight" guy like me, give wall sits a try. If you can do 500 squats (ridiculous imo), you can probably break the wall sitting world record (~11 hrs if I remember correctly).
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    « Reply #33 on: November 05, 2009, 05:45:42 PM »

    wow 11hrs i cant even do 10mins Sad
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    « Reply #34 on: November 05, 2009, 05:50:23 PM »

    ahah, you can say that again.
    11hours... damn... that's a whole lot of time. what did the guy do for that whole time? i'd bring my guitar over xD
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    « Reply #35 on: November 05, 2009, 06:36:28 PM »

    Actually, the record is held by a woman. The youtube video is entitled "Funny Guinness World Record for the Longest Wall Sit Video" if you are interested...
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    « Reply #36 on: November 05, 2009, 06:55:42 PM »

    OH dang, 11hours wall sit. Then it means if he/she do horse stance challenge then all the kungfu masters have to kneel.
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    « Reply #37 on: November 05, 2009, 09:15:28 PM »

    everyone, i thank you very much for all your replies.  it really helped!
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    « Reply #38 on: November 06, 2009, 03:46:48 AM »

    Amazing Guinness World Record Broken for Most Squats (See The GWR Longest Wall Sit)DQ
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    « Reply #39 on: November 06, 2009, 04:31:58 AM »

    11 hours???Wouldn´t stand a chance Cheesy I imagine there was some pretty focused training there..

    Well,as for me being able to do 500 unweighted squats, its not so strange considering that my tkd master LOVED them and we had to do 100 in a row or until failure when I first started out, and this increased evermore as we grew older and got higher ranks.(old korean style apparently:-) Doing this for 12 years,when I quit tkd I just kept at it.

    Also, a curiosity: Japanese wrestlers have to do atleast 1000(!) in a row to be accepted as students, this they consider not to be a problem for a deicated student ...I´m not japanese yet Wink
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    « Reply #40 on: November 06, 2009, 07:19:32 AM »

    The video.... it doesn't look like a squat to me. Leg is so wide apart and only halfway down, and use hand to support. Though, it is impressive.
    To me a real squat is ass touch calves and hands behind the neck.
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    « Reply #41 on: November 06, 2009, 07:33:32 AM »

    those are sumo squats.
    i've never tried them, but i probably wouldn't be able to do 100 of them lol. i may try tomorrow, just for the... fun?
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    « Reply #42 on: November 06, 2009, 07:55:12 AM »

    tried them and they work fine...but not that fast, that cant possibly be healthy? hmm, maybe start doing those...
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    « Reply #43 on: November 07, 2009, 05:03:40 AM »

    Hi,
    I intend to start a new routine in the gym.  Its 20 squats each session but the weight goes up by 5lbs each time ya do it.  Its done 3 times a week, however, I train twice a week in soccer where we do a lot of sprinting  and have a match on the weekend and I'm wondering would this as well as the squat routine in the gym 3 times a week be overtraining? I have good nutrition and get about 8 hours sleep a night so I'm just curious to see what ye think before I start.
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    « Reply #44 on: November 07, 2009, 10:50:12 AM »

    Hi,
    I intend to start a new routine in the gym.  Its 20 squats each session but the weight goes up by 5lbs each time ya do it.  Its done 3 times a week, however, I train twice a week in soccer where we do a lot of sprinting  and have a match on the weekend and I'm wondering would this as well as the squat routine in the gym 3 times a week be overtraining? I have good nutrition and get about 8 hours sleep a night so I'm just curious to see what ye think before I start.
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    I can't say for sure because I don't know your exact goal.

    -If your goal is to get stronger leg and more explosive power - then sure it is overtraining. You should not train a body part 2 days in a row with high intensity (sprinting and heavy weight squat). You'll soon feel that the tendon and joints will give in because of the micro traumas such strength training put on with lack of recovery . I would recommend doing 2 days or even 1 day of Squat only with heavy weight.

    -If your goal is to build leg for more endurance - it is fine to train everyday. Because it is normal for any soccer player to train on the field everyday (or even twice a day).
    But here it's my opinion: it's pretty pointless to train for high reps squat, because with running and sprinting on the field you already build good endurance for legs, what you want to do with squat is to increase leg strength - and that is to go heavy weight. Do heavy squat, 1 or 2 times a week.
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