How often do you squat?

[Deltasaurus]

Coan squated only once a week, guys like rippe squat 3 times a week, and Pat mendez squats everyday


How often do you squat and whats worked best for you?

Whats ur current 1RM or Triple

I squat once a week 5/3/1 but am now going to add in more squats on deadlift day but moderate weight not heavy.

Oly style 1rm is about 335 pretty sad i know im 195lbs

[Tyson]

once a week. it usually takes me a few days to recover. i like doing front squats as well

[BC123Jm]

never

[Bryan Hildebrand]

got old, dont back squat anymore, but do fronts on the smith.

when I competed, I squated twice a week, one 5/3/1 and one more volume oriented using the sled and hacks as well.

[Ryan Bracewell]

For powerlifting and strongman 1-2 days a week seems to be ideal. Some Oly guys will squat 3-6 days a week but I will point out at as a whole powerlifters have a much stronger squat than Oly guys.

For 1-2 days a week most will do a heavy day with 1-5 rep max and a lighter day for speed, possibly with bands. This is how I do my squats but during season I don't typically do the speed day.

My best PR's with with wide stance box squat in briefs are 730 for a single, and 690 for triple

[Deltasaurus]

I wanna point out as well that even though powerlifters lift more weight

generally they use less ROM, powerlifting= make the lift easiest as possible so minimalize ROM hence why guys do sumo deads, wide squats and wide bench.
Oly guys lift through greatest ROM it seems...

I dunno how guys like Pat mendez though do squats x2 a day 6-7 days a week

[Ryan Bracewell]

I wanna point out as well that even though powerlifters lift more weight

generally they use less ROM, powerlifting= make the lift easiest as possible so minimalize ROM hence why guys do sumo deads, wide squats and wide bench.
Oly guys lift through greatest ROM it seems...

I dunno how guys like Pat mendez though do squats x2 a day 6-7 days a week

Assuming the PL is going below parallel does it really matter if they are shortening the ROM? Building strength is building strength.

Even as an athlete there is very very few times that you would need or want to be in a position where your ass is touching your ankles like you see many Oly guys do while squatting.

[Deltasaurus]

I agree with that. Seems though the Oly guys are really athletic with crazy verts and what not... I do agree though they are lacking in the strength dept. at least in the united states. lol sorry for getting of subject im scatter brained...

Glad to here u like squats x2 a week because im really excited to start doing squat work on deadlift day as well its own day

[robert da strongman]

1-2 times a week. Depends how much bike riding I do

[juiceinator3000]

1-2 times a week. Depends how much bike riding I do

Can't tell if serious.. If not I'm repping because it made me laugh.

[robert da strongman]

Yes thats serious. I ride every week. Sometimes 3 days, an hour a day. Does more for my legs than squats.

[Rawstrength]

3x a week right now

[pfunk]

it looks like squating everyday is starting to take its toll on Pat Mendez...as I haven't seen him hit his previous PRs anymore and seems to be on the decline, at such an early age. But to get at his training regimen (John Broz training), you just squat everyday and get through the pain until your legs adapt. From what I've heard, this type of training worked in eastern europe because its what the coaches did to weed out everyone and leave only the blessed few who were freak athletes...and they probably did a bunch of gear too.

I squat close stance, atg, on Sundays....and on Deadlift days I'll do some wide-stance, powerlifting like box squats. So on Sunday I burn the quads and on thursday I get to hit the posterier chain of muscls

[seanmech]

Every other week, I'm only 28 and after 7 years of training, I have 1 fucked left shoulder, 1 fucked right hip , and a pair of fucked Knees, being self employed mechanic I can't afford to fuck anything any worse than it already is!

[Ryan Bracewell]

I agree with that. Seems though the Oly guys are really athletic with crazy verts and what not... I do agree though they are lacking in the strength dept. at least in the united states. lol sorry for getting of subject im scatter brained...

Glad to here u like squats x2 a week because im really excited to start doing squat work on deadlift day as well its own day

i think your opinion of strongmen is a little flawed. Just to give you a few examples, Bryan Shaw(current WSM) played college basketball. Andy Vincent and Mike Jenkins played pro football, and i believe there are several more that played pro but I know for a fact those guys did, and there are many many that played D1 football. Ive personally seen ortmayer jump onto a 52" stack of tires at 325lbs.

Point being, top tier Oly lifters are no more athletic than top tier strongmen

[Ryan Bracewell]

Every other week, I'm only 28 and after 7 years of training, I have 1 fucked left shoulder, 1 fucked right hip , and a pair of fucked Knees, being self employed mechanic I can't afford to fuck anything any worse than it already is!

If you have that many injuries specifically from training then there is a 99% chance that your form is jacked up. I would look at hiring someone to coach you for a bit.

[seanmech]

If you have that many injuries specifically from training then there is a 99% chance that your form is jacked up. I would look at hiring someone to coach you for a bit.

Surprises me as a strong man that you Question form Ryan!? When you lift and fit engines and gearboxes everyday for 12 years 50 hours a week in awkward positions with your arms above your head, form goes out the window, if it needs to fit in a hole it needs to fit in a whole, I train with a rugby team, the coach is 62 years old and has 40 years lifting experience, my form in recent year is text book, the shoulder injury happened in the 1st 6 months of training I tore my teres minor shoulder pressing with terrible form, thinking I knew what I was doing! the hip injury is genetic I had ( henoch schoenlein purpura ) when I was 13 google it and you will understand ! My knees I find at 6.2 if I squat every week they hurt like mad every other they are ok, Natural lifter 3 years clueless, 4 years learning what mistakes I made, I now believe I have medium diet and training knowledge, Thanks for your reply

[Deltasaurus]

i think your opinion of strongmen is a little flawed. Just to give you a few examples, Bryan Shaw(current WSM) played college basketball. Andy Vincent and Mike Jenkins played pro football, and i believe there are several more that played pro but I know for a fact those guys did, and there are many many that played D1 football. Ive personally seen ortmayer jump onto a 52" stack of tires at 325lbs.

Point being, top tier Oly lifters are no more athletic than top tier strongmen

But i mean you take ur average powerlifters vs average Oly guys

Oly guys tend to be more athletic IME and I know everyone says powerlifters are the strongest but they use less ROM making the lift easier..

And i did mean pure powerlifters i didnt say strongmen cause IMO Strongmen are really athletic because there sport is much more demanding the just the BIG 3 lifts


Any by athletic im meaning for sports stuff, Jumping, Sprinting and strength.... How often to you take up a sumo stance with ur feet in any sport? or push of someone with a really wide base using ur arms....
Powerlifting is all about cheating the lift making the lift easier so u can get a higher number, Oly lifting u cant cheat the lift

Also i think oly guys messing up there knee's isnt to do so much with their form as it does with maxing out all the time and squating several times a week

[Ryan Bracewell]

Surprises me as a strong man that you Question form Ryan!? When you lift and fit engines and gearboxes everyday for 12 years 50 hours a week in awkward positions with your arms above your head, form goes out the window, if it needs to fit in a hole it needs to fit in a whole, I train with a rugby team, the coach is 62 years old and has 40 years lifting experience, my form in recent year is text book, the shoulder injury happened in the 1st 6 months of training I tore my teres minor shoulder pressing with terrible form, thinking I knew what I was doing! the hip injury is genetic I had ( henoch schoenlein purpura ) when I was 13 google it and you will understand ! My knees I find at 6.2 if I squat every week they hurt like mad every other they are ok, Natural lifter 3 years clueless, 4 years learning what mistakes I made, I now believe I have medium diet and training knowledge, Thanks for your reply

so what your saying is that most of your injuries were not specifically from weight training....i.e. my form comment would not apply. Still not sure what you meant regarding me talking about form as a SM. Not sure what that would have to do with anything.

[Ryan Bracewell]

But i mean you take ur average powerlifters vs average Oly guys

Oly guys tend to be more athletic IME and I know everyone says powerlifters are the strongest but they use less ROM making the lift easier..

In general I would agree with this simply based on the numbers. There are a ton more powerlifters than Oly lifters, atleast in the USA. And a large chunk of those powerlifters are fat guys that happen to lift weights and use powerlifting as their excuse for being fat. This is why i decided to use elite level guys as the example because it provides a more fair comparison.

[seanmech]

so what your saying is that most of your injuries were not specifically from weight training....i.e. my form comment would not apply. Still not sure what you meant regarding me talking about form as a SM. Not sure what that would have to do with anything.

Yes mate that is correct. I just ment it in jest, After watching Derick at the resent Arnold on his last Deadlift, I no you strong men are all amount just getting the job done and form is quite oftern thrown out the window, I ment no offence, Again thanks for the advise, Shawly you have some injurys/niggles?

[Ryan Bracewell]

Yes mate that is correct. I just ment it in jest, After watching Derick at the resent Arnold on his last Deadlift, I no you strong men are all amount just getting the job done and form is quite oftern thrown out the window, I ment no offence, Again thanks for the advise, Shawly you have some injurys/niggles?

no offense takien. I learned a long time ago to not take things personally, especially since you cant read emotion in text. In contests no doubt, its all about getting the job done but most of us try to use good form in training to avoid injury. If your deadlifting 800+ with shitty form you will end up in the hospital. Luckily I stay injury free majority of the time. The most recent injury I had that kept me from overhead pressing for 2 months was actually caused by sleeping on my shoulder wrong, haha.

[LSMUSCL81a]

i squat every other week, alternate between leg pressing and squats, all higher vol, 4x20's or 16's

[Young Gotti]

every thursday

[joe d]

squatted whenever i felt i needed it. 1,2,3x per week. maybe more once in a great while. no pl or sm for me though. only bb with a focus on increasing numbers

[Friendly Milkshake]

i squated 2 years ago

about 175 lbs lol

[joe d]

i squated 2 years ago

about 175 lbs lol

in the words of my youngest boy.. that is beast!!!

[seanmech]

no offense takien. I learned a long time ago to not take things personally, especially since you cant read emotion in text. In contests no doubt, its all about getting the job done but most of us try to use good form in training to avoid injury. If your deadlifting 800+ with shitty form you will end up in the hospital. Luckily I stay injury free majority of the time. The most recent injury I had that kept me from overhead pressing for 2 months was actually caused by sleeping on my shoulder wrong, haha.

Haha the night mare of sleeping at a monster size!! Keep up the great work at Rx

[Provo82]

every single week!

[ChuckLeed]

about 3 times every two weeks i figure,

[bluetwistedsteel]

Yes thats serious. I ride every week. Sometimes 3 days, an hour a day. Does more for my legs than squats.

Then you're not squatting correctly. I'll put a great squatters legs up against a great cyclists legs any day. The squatter will be bigger and stronger.

[robert da strongman]

Then you're not squatting correctly. I'll put a great squatters legs up against a great cyclists legs any day. The squatter will be bigger and stronger.

Thats true... I really have no clue. So what is your advice for getting my squat over 600 lbs ??

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[bluetwistedsteel]

Thats true... I really have no clue. So what is your advice for getting my squat over 600 lbs ??

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haha - I'm the wrong one to ask. I feel like my heads going to explode when I squat 5 plates. Adding another 100lbs to that is probably not going to happen for me. I do know that the best way to get to a 600lb squat is NOT by riding a bike, it's by squatting. Don't get me wrong, my brother in-law is an avid cyclist with a $10k bike and a "lets go ride 100 miles" psycho-ness, and he's in fantastic shape and has strong legs. But he can't keep up with me at the squat rack (in fairness, I'd probably puke after riding 200 yards uphill while he just motors up them like they're nothing). So I'm not dogging cyclist or the freaky shit they're able to do on a bicycle - it's just that if the goal is to have big muscular legs and to be able to squat seriously big weight, squatting is going to do far more than riding a bike.

[robert da strongman]

Aaaand the dumbass award goes to you... Talk about yourself and tell me to squat. Brilliant...
Well lets see since you never bothered to even ask... My 1rm is 585 with belt and wraps. Even though I ride I still squat and squat heavy.. My point was my legs grow more when I ride versus the heavy low rep squatting I do.

Lesson of the day ask questions, listen, research before opening your sewer pipe..thanks
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[bluetwistedsteel]

Aaaand the dumbass award goes to you... Talk about yourself and tell me to squat. Brilliant...
Well lets see since you never bothered to even ask... My 1rm is 585 with belt and wraps. Even though I ride I still squat and squat heavy.. My point was my legs grow more when I ride versus the heavy low rep squatting I do.

Lesson of the day ask questions, listen, research before opening your sewer pipe..thanks
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My entire point was/is that squatting is far superior to cycling for building size and strength, that's just a fact. Do this, quit squatting for a year and keep cycling, I guarantee you won't be hitting that 585. Drop the riding for a year and keep squatting heavy and I bet you still hit that number (or higher).
As for the smart ass response (and talking about myself) all i said was that I was the wrong person to ask because I do not squat 600 (but I also don't wrap or wear a belt and I've never attempted a 1 rep max - I keep my reps in the 6-10 range) but that great squatters are stronger then great cyclists. Thats just a fact that's ridiculous to argue with.

[robert da strongman]

Cookie cutter training may work for trainers and newbs in the gym. But what I do works for me, thats the point you are missing or maybe ignoring.

And for someone that has never attempted a 1rm, you sure are full of shit, I mean advice on what I should do...

And I am neither a great squatter or cyclist, I am a competitive strongman.

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[bluetwistedsteel]

Cookie cutter training may work for trainers and newbs in the gym. But what I do works for me, thats the point you are missing or maybe ignoring.

And for someone that has never attempted a 1rm, you sure are full of shit, I mean advice on what I should do...

And I am neither a great squatter or cyclist, I am a competitive strongman.

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Not sure what the source of hostility is but as for 1 rep max, it just doesn't mean anything to me. I train for asthetics and well rounded preformance. I squat 495 for 6-8 reps and I'm happy with that. Not the strongest but at my weight, I do better than alright. If you squat 585, then you're at the very least a very, very good squatter. Not sure why a person that doesn't do a 1 rep max is "full of shit". A person can't have an opinion if they don't go for 1 rep max lifts? That way of thinking is actually funny. But hey, some people just always have an axe to grind.

[robert da strongman]

You ASSUMED you knew something about me without ever asking a question

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[mattrag]

I think the oly guys will always squat ATG because when they clean or snatch that is usually the position they catch at.
As far as powerlifting and getting big you should do the style that will allow you to carry maximum load. Don't mess up form or the basics though, but don't let having to use a high bar squat limit you. Use the low bar squat if your mechanics are more feared for it in using heavier weight. All about what the movement is doing for you and your goals.

[swingslammer]

Hmmmmm....

[McLaug]

The Squat -for me- is an additional Excercise for my Deadlift-Training. Deadlift first, everythinng else: additional.
Works for me. Took a long time to figure out.

[pfunk]

Hmmmmm....

oh my gawd! I'm buying a bike!

[kraftwerk]

[kraftwerk]

He has a good upper body too, obviously no stranger to the weight room and squat rack.

[pfunk]

Here's that cyclist squating...you knew there'd be some power there as this looks pretty easy for him with good depth: