Mike Boyle says not to do barbell squats, but instead just do deadlifts and bulgarian split squats with dumbbells
is he right, squats are shit ?
Mike Boyle says not to do barbell squats, but instead just do deadlifts and bulgarian split squats with dumbbells
is he right, squats are shit ?
Still gonna squat. Idk about some 12 year old video
No. It's obvious he's just trying to gain attention by being controversial, it's a common ploy and people fall for it every time.
If squats were bad or "inefficient" it would have been noticed in past few decades. Even if they are slightly "inefficient" in some ways, it's all about what you like doing and will continue to do.
well my man he has "noticed"
mma guys used to give themselves concussions to try to build up tolerance, took them a while to notice too
its always gonna depend on your sport. if its just physique or something you can get away with a lot, but if he pitched this to a basketball strength coach he would probably get laughed out of the room
nevertheless exercise variation is underrated probably as a product of the heavy powerlifting emphasis in some parts of the strength coaching market
I think there just some different on where the rating that is "over" is coming from. if you just do Louie Simmons squat variations all day and try to pitch that to a track team (which I'm sure some very vocal very minor segment does on here) that is probably overrating squats. but that doesn't even have to do with squats at a certain point right but the one size fits all approach fanatics from all corners will have. that's what I think the anon you replied to was getting at
I switched to bulgarians a long time ago for two reasons. One, they simply hit my legs harder. Like so hard I think I'm going to vomit, and they don't involve my back at all. Two, I've seen too many people BTFO out their backs doing squats and diddlies both IRL and online. The stories are legion. I refuse to end one of those people, I intend to lift forever so with 50+ years in mind the choice was easy, BSS>squats.
He's talking sense, it's just the pseudo powerlifting SS crowd refuse to accept that squats are overrated and unnecessary of you aren't a powerlifter
>Simultaneously works the largest muscles in your body
>Overrated and unnecessary
Post legs.
Why do you think you can't grow legs without squats, genuine question?
You don't need deadlifts for a big back
You don't need bench for a big chest
Etc
No single exercise is necessary when it comes to bodybuilding
>Why do you think you can't grow legs without squats, genuine question?
You obviously can, but squats are a fantastic exercise and you'd be daft not to include them to some degree
im not saying you *need* to do them. im saying that they are not overrated. and the squat as a movement is necessary, but if you dont do squats proper then you have to do some other variation that puts you in similar body positions. basic kineseiology. ther arent strictly necessary yes. but in terms of how good of an excercise they are, unless you have some sort of other reason not to do them they are the fricking king of leg excercises.
>screenshots reddit
i said post legs. timestamp. now.
>why don't we trust Mike Boyle?
see Mike Boyle
have you ever seen a football player's squat? yeah, there really is no point
I would cut deadlifts before I cut squats
Why would I listen to some DYEL?
>the king of exercises is inefficient
Lol, lmao
They are inefficient as a pure quad exercise to be fair
If you wanr quad centric squats do front squats
I do squats, I feel squats
What is a better way to work your legs than squatting? You're literally flexing your quads
>another dyel, skinnyfat boomer falling for Pavel's self-marketing larp
Yeah man, squats don't build legs, deadlifts do. The lift that uses legs for the first 1/3 of the movement only is the true builder of leg mass.
Who is that?
Yeah the best athletes in the world are wrong, let's listen to the fat old man
No, the squats have persisted as a mainstay exercise for over a century. If it was truly an inferior exercise it wouldnt be a mainstay and instead be cyclic.
Case and point, floor press and vertical leg press. They come in and out od vogue, the first one because its limited ROM yields it drastically inferior to other pressing exercises. The second because it is actually bad for your back.