I’m just repeating it to new people commenting.
I genuinely don’t understand why you asked for advice if your intent was to refute everything you get told.
If you want to believe whoever told you to work on ankle flexibility, go ask that person how to address your squatting. Don’t try to play sources against each other.
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Wasn’t refuting, just justifying why I wasn’t leaning too far back in my squat, hoping on some tips and feedback to help me be able to lean back further like it is been suggested.
Look, you are all over the place because you are getting parroted info from… all over the place.
It’s very simple.
You want big legs? Just do:
- Primary Free Weight Exercise - Entire lower body
- Squat
- Secondary Exercises - Less technically challenging; hit target muscles directly
- Leg Press, Hack Squat, Lunges, Leg Curls etc (Choose 1-3 depending on overlap and intensity requirement)
That’s it. Why make things so complicated?
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Surely you see the irony in this.
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I suggest you beginners approach this from a a different perspective. Human physiology has not changed any time recently and exercises are simply moving weight through a range of motion utilizing different combinations of muscles.
A. A compound movement utilizes various muscles to complete the lift. Depending on your individual proportions, you may be hitting some muscles more and others less compared to another guy with different proportions. It doesn’t matter as long as you execute the lift with proper technique. Think about it. If all you do is work your quads without the posterior chain, you are going to walk funny and girls will laugh at you.
This is why you also do:
B. Non-compound movements(I’m calling them this because some noob is going to tell you not to do any isolation movements before some arbitrary strength standard is reached, which completely lacks any semblance of common sense). This is where you focus on contracting the muscles instead of the movement. Learn how and what it feels like to use and contract the muscles and you won’t have problems using them during compound lifts.
Now, these are your objectives:
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Execute your sets with enough intensity to force the need for adaptation, i.e, muscle growth. No, the weight on the bar doesn’t matter. The fact that the weight is increasing matters. At this level, you are going to need use a progression model, e.g 531, for your main movements because it takes experience to effectively gauge intensity and quantify progress through other means.
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Consume enough calories to grow. No excess calories, no grow. Note that I am not telling you to do something stupid like GOMAD unless you are a stick with a ridiculous metabolism who will fall over if your girlfriend sneezes in your direction. Just eat a reasonable caloric excess and judge progress by the scale and the mirror.
That’s all you need to know.
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WHAT?
Proton Energy Pills dont work??
Damn.
Let’s hope he listens.
Just so the OP knows, I’m 6’2" and glad I started lifting before the Internet. Put bar on upper back, go up and down. You knew when something was wrong.
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Yeah that makes sense… I most likely will just try fromt squats for a while 1 because it hits the quads and 2 because it seems to demand a more upright Torso when I do it also majority of people on this thread are suggesting it so I’m thinking that may be something I can try
Less talk more do
Good?
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What’s wrong haha???
5+ experienced guys come along and don’t even mention front squats this entire thread and then you decide to do them based on your own knowledge. Could listening to people with 5+ years of training work.
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No no that’s it!
You’re actually starting to get it
Go do it
Go do front squats
Do front squats until your legs fall off
And go do everything else, and do it a lot
Like everyone has said, you know your body the best and at your age and experience, you’ll learn best by doing and doing it a lot!
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Go to the top, everyone wants telling me to do than and I was using the tips from the start and hopefully using the rest of them that were further down, Irish man and 2 others suggested front squats
I’m not curling in that kid’s squat rack.
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I don’t get that joke
Watch the video. It’s hilarious.
Are you the one that’s 6"7?
I’m pretty sure you said you were but can’t find it