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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.

poopoo
03-12-2003, 07:57 PM
This is so funny. "the weight will push you all the way down and you will die" WTF? I'm guessing that he is super-gluing his hands to the bar so he cant drop it.

dedprez*
03-12-2003, 07:59 PM
anything that is done with wrong form is dangerous....cant just limit it 2 squats tho

Badgermoon
03-12-2003, 08:42 PM
So true. Been married twice and learned the hard way.

winnie
03-13-2003, 02:10 AM
Originally posted by Badgermoon
So true. Been married twice and learned the hard way.

LOL...:D

bigshug
03-13-2003, 04:57 AM
If you take ephedra you might die, too!

saturn
03-13-2003, 12:00 PM
Wow your knee might break in half if you use wraps???:confused: Where the hell did this guy come from? I bet he's one of those guys with the potato on tooth picks look. I hope I don't die doing legs tomorrow.

WeirdAl
03-13-2003, 12:25 PM
I died doing squats yesterday, but I'm feeling much better now.

Harvey Balboner
03-13-2003, 01:05 PM
Just remember:

"If any of you people try this and die, I'm not responsible"

bigjosh
03-14-2003, 11:50 PM
dam I thought slin and dnp was dangerous... but now I see how dangerous squats really are!!! lol,,,jk WTF is this guy thinking...
I like using knee wraps even w/ moderate weight because I have bad knees that hurt and it feels alot better with them on.

Saks
03-15-2003, 01:14 AM
God I'll never do squats again! Every day reading the freaking paper or watching the news I have to quit something. Now on MC I am learning that something will kill me. I'm gonna have to just stay indoors under a physicians care for the rest of my life. I wonder if I can die from bed sores?

PO644
03-15-2003, 11:22 AM
wtf. this guy acts like he just discovered squats and is sharing his new found discovery with the world. hmm maybe he owns a bowflex. lol

poopoo
03-15-2003, 11:42 AM
well, I'm off to do some squats today... I guess that makes me suicidal. Goodbye cruel world!

kossdeh
03-16-2003, 01:56 AM
you old crazy bastard.... dont do it

gander
03-17-2003, 12:20 PM
This sounds like the computer nerd/band geek that had to do a set of squats in P.E. class and write a report on it. ;-)