Best for squats??

I know some of you guys have a massive squat and I was wondering what kind of lifts help improve them. I'm looking for max strength not endurance. But how many sets/reps do you recommend for squats? I have been doing squats once a week but that wasn't helping me at all. I might try twice a week, I'm not sure yet. Thanks.

Squats are king. I never do legs w/o squats.... I work up to 6 reps w/ 500lbs. Start with 225 for 20 for a warm up.

If you want to add more weight to your squat/ mass to your legs. Just squat more. Do 6 sets of squats atleast... Then hit the leg press.... everything else is for shaping in my opinion.

good luck.

Yea i was thinking about doing a pyramid which is 7 sets.

Sounds good.

You'll be adding weight in no time.

just be careful.

What's your opinion of smith machine squats?

hmmm not sure I don't use them much, but only because we have to do normal squats for football so I work on those.

Warm up with sets of 10 reps, then have all your working sets be 5 reps. Glute-ham raises, leg extensions, weighted crunches, hyper-extensions and lunges will all improve your squat. Also start doing box squats, don't even bother doing regular barbell squats, guys with the biggest squats train their squat by doing ONLY box squats. Doing this will give you TEXTBOOK form and increase the strength of all the supporting muscles needed to squat ie abs, lower back, hamstrings, glutes. Also right down your weights each week, and progress by atleast 5lbs a week, and don't worry if you don't get 5reps, you can just build on it next week eg. week 1 315 x 3, week 2 315 x 5. Need anymore help just ask.

Do you recommend doin legs once or twice a week? Or split up the lifts for legs on different days? Thanks

I personally do legs 2xs a week. I hit everything on those days. works well with a 3 day split routine.

If your goin for maximum power i'd suggest once a week, if your training as hard and heavy as you can I just do see how yuou could possibly hit your legs twice in the same week. Their are a few anomalies ie big ron coleman.

Deadlifts help, SLDL help, heavy lunges help. These things will all help add lbs to your squat.