SQUAT DEPTH DEBATE IS STUPID
Should I squat full range or 90 degrees?
Should I stop before my knees pass over my toes, or should I train knee over toe?
Stop asking stupid questions and debating stupid topics
Here's what you do
Should I squat full range or 90 degrees?
Should I stop before my knees pass over my toes, or should I train knee over toe?
Stop asking stupid questions and debating stupid topics
Here's what you do
DO BOTH.
We don’t need to choose 1 or the other believe it or not, squat depth is not a religious cult practice that you must refrain from a certain range of motion….
Stop romanticizing a training variable (depth = greater eccentric loads and greater loads under end of range)
We don’t need to choose 1 or the other believe it or not, squat depth is not a religious cult practice that you must refrain from a certain range of motion….
Stop romanticizing a training variable (depth = greater eccentric loads and greater loads under end of range)
Partial and Full ranges both have their place in a well balanced program.
Each variable is a tool, a variety of depths = not doing the exact same pattern, and firing the exact same way millions of times when you vary depth, there for helps keep the body healthy.
Each variable is a tool, a variety of depths = not doing the exact same pattern, and firing the exact same way millions of times when you vary depth, there for helps keep the body healthy.
Partial ROM: Great way to improve vertical jump and sprint outputs (found to be better than full depth squats).
Full ROM: work end of range, great for injury mitigation (replicate deep squat positions all the time when grappling, so needs to be trained accordingly).
Full ROM: work end of range, great for injury mitigation (replicate deep squat positions all the time when grappling, so needs to be trained accordingly).
Ass to grass with extremely heavy loads probably isn’t the best strategy for long term orthopaedic health, but doesn’t mean you should not train in this fashion, or even at a lower load.
So train them both, use them both for the attributes and benefits you can get from each variable. It is that simple.
So many things within the performance industry are over debated, and aren’t moving the needle and giving us any useful information what so ever.
So many things within the performance industry are over debated, and aren’t moving the needle and giving us any useful information what so ever.
Latest research never trumps common sense. You see humans in extremely awkward spinal positions all the time, and are just fine. Take graded approaches to adapt to a certain stress you place on the body, strive to be strong in any position you find yourself in.
Simple.
Simple.
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