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By bulking up I mean bigger thicker muscles..not looking like Lou Ferrigno and adding 50 lbs of steroid induced mass.
I lot of people rave about the benefits of doing heavy squats, I'm just not completely sold. There are issues with loading up that much weight onto your spine.
They don't have to be heavy. But in any event, my favorite quote ever was I think Rippetoe. Squats are not bad for you. That thing you are doing that you are calling squats are bad for you. Form is really important. Anyway different strokes. I have squats and deads on my routine for today after my short run.
They don't have to be heavy. But in any event, my favorite quote ever was I think Rippetoe. Squats are not bad for you. That thing you are doing that you are calling squats are bad for you. Form is really important. Anyway different strokes. I have squats and deads on my routine for today after my short run.
A squat is commonly considered to be when you take a bareball and hold it across your rear shoulders. That is not "bad form", that is how you are supposed to do the exercise.
This act alone, when you start to load hundreds of pounds, can be detrimental to your spine. I'm sure there is some way to do squats that would more evenly distribute load onto your frame, but the traditional way is not one of them.
THRUSTERS...I Deadlift, Squat,Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and do various ring, plyo, and kettlebell work but THRUSTERS have helped develop overall fitness for me hands down. High reps low weight, High weight, with burpees,with cleans (aka squat clean and press) its all good for strength and stamina.
I second the thrusters..hits the entire body. i like using a med ball.
Thanks, that was a nice article about Paula. And before I started reading RT, so I had never seen it. The other link was interesting too. I will definitely try to work in squats to my bag of tricks. I remember now reading an article by Pete Magill who said that one of the issues for older runners (that's me) is loss of muscle mass, which is best countered by resistance training.
Sometimes running isn't enough. That's when we hit the weights.
"Regular running cannot prevent age-related loss of muscle mass and strength," says Hirofumi Tanaka, Ph.D., an exercise scientist at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of a review of published studies on resistance training and endurance. "You have to perform strength training for that."
Of equal interest to runners, Tanaka found that resistance training increases both short-and long-term endurance, as well as improving lactate threshold. This makes resistance training an exception to the law of specificity, which requires that we recruit the same muscle fibers in training that we'll use in competition. Unlike other forms of cross-training, resistance training actually improves our running.
But hold your horses. This doesn't mean we should go all Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"I just go straightaway to strength training that mimics running," says Schwartz. "I do quarter squats [lowering to 45-degree angle], lunges, heel raises and hip extensions."
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