Harvey Balboner
03-12-2003, 07:49 PM
Check out this guys warning about doing squats, I know it's CYA, but this warning is a little over the top. I'm not listing his web site address, just his warning.
I got a kick out of this.
Squats are the most dangerous exercise in the world. If you do it with wrong form, the weight will push you all the way down and you will die.
Make sure you do it on a power rack. Meaning, you have safety bars on either side of the bar as you come down and rise up with it. So if you die out at the bottom of the lift, the safety bars will catch the weight so you can let it catch, and stand up to walk away from it.
Keep your toes pointed outward a little \ /, come down with the weight bar on your shoulders, and rise up. Always use a spotter who knows proper form and how to give a spot. Never attempt this alone. Keep your back straight or else youll break your back and get paralyzed.
The muscles strength will mainly come from your glutes, your calves, hamstrings, thighs, quads, lower back and upper body and trunk (stomach).
Just use the straight bar without any weight to get used to the form. Then you can start adding on a little bit of weight as you go on. Use weight clips on either side to keep the plates from sliding off.
Its best to do this exercise on free weights instead of on a smith machine, because the smith machine (as safe as it is) doesn’t work your stablizer muscles, and you wont see any results no matter how much you squat on the smith.
Heavy calf raises are great to do right after squats. I use a smith machine for those.
Don’t try the knee wraps unless you know what youre doing. You can break your knee in half if you don’t wrap right. If youre going light, you wont need wraps. My advice is not to use them if youre a beginner, or even intermediate.
proper form is comming down at a 90 degree angle, then rising back up again. Never lock the legs or knees out.
If any of you people try this and die, I'm not responsible. I'm just sharing my experiences on this board. Talk to your parents or an athletic trainer before attempting squats.
I got a kick out of this.
Squats are the most dangerous exercise in the world. If you do it with wrong form, the weight will push you all the way down and you will die.
Make sure you do it on a power rack. Meaning, you have safety bars on either side of the bar as you come down and rise up with it. So if you die out at the bottom of the lift, the safety bars will catch the weight so you can let it catch, and stand up to walk away from it.
Keep your toes pointed outward a little \ /, come down with the weight bar on your shoulders, and rise up. Always use a spotter who knows proper form and how to give a spot. Never attempt this alone. Keep your back straight or else youll break your back and get paralyzed.
The muscles strength will mainly come from your glutes, your calves, hamstrings, thighs, quads, lower back and upper body and trunk (stomach).
Just use the straight bar without any weight to get used to the form. Then you can start adding on a little bit of weight as you go on. Use weight clips on either side to keep the plates from sliding off.
Its best to do this exercise on free weights instead of on a smith machine, because the smith machine (as safe as it is) doesn’t work your stablizer muscles, and you wont see any results no matter how much you squat on the smith.
Heavy calf raises are great to do right after squats. I use a smith machine for those.
Don’t try the knee wraps unless you know what youre doing. You can break your knee in half if you don’t wrap right. If youre going light, you wont need wraps. My advice is not to use them if youre a beginner, or even intermediate.
proper form is comming down at a 90 degree angle, then rising back up again. Never lock the legs or knees out.
If any of you people try this and die, I'm not responsible. I'm just sharing my experiences on this board. Talk to your parents or an athletic trainer before attempting squats.