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[quote]JeffnOnt wrote:
I think I found a solution… I rolled the dishwasher over to the freezer and did dips between the two. The dogs looked at me pretty funny, but it worked.[/quote]
Or, two sturdy chairs, back to back.
Dips: Playground, either between some monkey bars (or if that is too close together) there are usually 2 bars about the right distance that are used to pull yourself up onto the steps or ladders.
Maybe:
Sissy squats
Pistols
Dumbell squats- By which I wish to imply something in the region of 40-50 pound dumbells each side. Don’t laugh, please. I tried them once and it really wasn’t funny.
I do my dips either in the corner between two rows of kitchen cabinets or between two chairs. You can also do them on a bar- sometimes I load up the barbell, put it across the top of my squat rack and do dips on that.
By the way, does anybody know why my elbows go ‘clunk’ sometimes when I do dips and pressups? Some guy told me it was broken pieces of cartilage in the joint, which is kind of scary? When I was 14 I used to do a lot of pressups and stuff as I was planning to join the army at the time- at one point I was doing 100 in the morning before I went to school. I had the same problem then, but I just used to ignore it. Any advice?
I invented a very easy way to squat at home:
Hold the bar but dont raise it to your shoulders, just raise it to the middle of your thighs.
When u sit down, rest it on your thighs for a moment, but still surround it with your grips, then stand up again.
You’ll be able to squat with v heavy weights since you dont use ur shoulders and your grips are relaxed.
if someone tried this, tell me
It’s hard to picture what you describe, but it sounds more like a deadlift to me than a squat.
I do squats at home by holding a pair of dumbells vertically on my shoulders.
Squats are to lifting as breathing is to life…
You can do front or overhead squats in your home gym
None of the old time strong men did squats, so no, they are not necessary. Deadlifts (especially if you include RDLs) are enough to give you decent legs/glutes. HOWEVER, if you want legs to match Tom Platz, you will have to squat.
so someone probably already said it, but can’t you use db’s?
if not, have someone jump on your back that’s what I do when I get a sudden urge to do squats …
[quote]sharetrader wrote:
None of the old time strong men did squats, so no, they are not necessary. Deadlifts (especially if you include RDLs) are enough to give you decent legs/glutes. HOWEVER, if you want legs to match Tom Platz, you will have to squat.[/quote]
Old time strongmen didn’t squat?
[quote]conorh wrote:
sharetrader wrote:
None of the old time strong men did squats, so no, they are not necessary. Deadlifts (especially if you include RDLs) are enough to give you decent legs/glutes. HOWEVER, if you want legs to match Tom Platz, you will have to squat.
Old time strongmen didn’t squat?[/quote]
Yeah they didn’t call it squatting back then, it was just “ugggh ugga uggh…” They also just deadlifted BFR’s and got their HIIT getting chased by dinosaurs. Oddly enough they still had Smith Machines though…
Fast forward a few years- Wasn’t there something in the bible about Moses squatting? Oh wait maybe that was just knealing…
I can’t keep this stuff straight.
You could make a heavy sandbag out of little sandbags, then lift it into your lap. Then bearhug it while squatting up and down. You could also hoist the bag to your shoulders and squat up and down.