Is it overrated?
imo the GOAT lifts for men are the bench press and standing shoulder press.
It is also not very realistic either, I've never had to squat with something heavy on my shoulders and I have done plenty physical labour in my life. Deadlifts seem much more useful for everyday life.
Barbell work is only still around because of tradition, for aesthetics it's deliberately taking the less efficient and more injury prone route.
>less efficient and more injury prone
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True, for aesthetics you need some machines at a gym, chin up bar, dip bar and heavy enough dumbbells to make arm gains. The aesthetics are all about the abs, backs, arms and some legs.
Spine gets herniated from barbell related injuries especially during clean & jerk, squats and deadlifts the most through excessive loads.
STFU
Squats aren't the only exercises to work legs
Lunge Walks are probably the most based leg exercises especially when loaded with barbells.
Inb4
"That's a type of a squat!" no its not, a knee drop isn't always a freaking squat you fricking moron, in a squat you try to go down aimed with your hips in a lunge you step to the front, the back or the side and try to lower yourself down to a kneeled stance, totally different dynamic.
It's okay op you don't have to squat if you don't want too
Just do what you like. Even if you try to force yourself to do something you don't like, if you plan on lifting till you die, you won't keep at it.
For longevity I agree that deadlifts are king, but not necessarily maxing out.
Nothing can replace barbells, machines do not add appreciable amounts of muscle mass
No one has ever gotten big from just machines
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Post physique
Let's see some bodies posted
But you're a dyel skinny kid, and we won't see shit
You realize machines imitate the same movement and handle form for you?
Actually, Phil Heath does not do barbell shit.
He does mostly machines...
thats not the point, dude...
I LITERALLY said that benching (a barbell exercise) should replace squatting as your priority lift.
What does that even mean replace squat for bench?
You do both + deadlift + OHP. Anything less and you're DYEL forever unless you roid
You know you can focus multiple lifts at the same time right?
It will never give you gains like singular focus on one lift will. Ask the Bugez.
What? Nothing in the gym is designed to exactly emulate a real life situation. In real life your body is placed in really disadvantageous positions that weakens you substantially. The point of lifting in the gym is so that you condition so that you have more raw strength and possibly power if you train specifically for a sport like WL or gymnastics.
Having more raw strength is more like increasing your raw horsepower on a car. Just because I have a 575HP LS3 in a Miata doesn't make it inherently better at rock crawling than a 190HP 4.0L I6 in a Wrangler. But if you throw the LS3 into a custom rock bouncer and a manual TH400 or something it'd crush just as well. Conditioning is going to help you in varying degrees based on what the task is, ping pong is not exactly shot put.
Standing shoulder press is pretty much the first lift to be dropped when it's time to drop lifts from beating your bidy up. Not a good examole
>Squatting for leg gains
Meh. Works, kinda.
>Squatting for Testosterone boost, therefore improving your other gains
Based and redpilled.
>Squatting so you can deadlift heavier
FRICK YEAH
machines and dumbbells mog barbells for hypertrophy, simple as
i do use barbells for curls (i do this in the squat rack)