Any thoughts:
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Any thoughts:
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Interesting.
Never seen or heard anything like it, but seems prommising. Its like the old powerlifting saying your only as strong as you are in your weakest position. By squating with the staggered stance you end up with say one weak position at the bottom, with the forward foot and maby the middle with the staggered foot. This would allow more weight to be lifted because both legs are not in a mechinical disadvantage position in the bottom portion of the normal squat. Its like having two race cars. One car has no bottom end and all top end,“normal squat in strength” while the other car has average bottom end and average top end." staggered squat in strength." Well as you can figure out the average car would win the race. Just like how you can squat more with the staggered squat,“no major mechanical disadvantage.” But does this new foot spacing transfer over to sports? Maby some sports.
ive done these, or something like em. they’re cool. i noticed a pump in a different part of my glutes on the front leg than with oly squats. they suck for high reps if you do high reps the conventional way. ex: if you wanna do these for 2x20 with 3:00 rest between each set you’d probably be best off by making in 4x20 with 3:00 rest but switching the forward leg each set. if you try and do high reps conventionally you’ll be extremely weak when you switch stance.
or you could try switching stance after each rep.
just remember, if you were to do these in place of oly or PL squats you’d have to change your set/rep/rest schemes because these are an entirely different breed of squat.
Is this the same as the homeostatic stance?
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=460281
I could have swore Shugart mentioned it in his blog, but maybe not.
Here is my theory on it-
The body has to work in harmony with itself as a unit. Each muscle or set of contracting muscles has an opposite set of muscles, which are referred to as the antagonistic muscles. For example, the triceps are antagonistic to the biceps when doing barbell curls. To maximize your training, the antagonistic muscles need to be set or balanced against the contractor muscles. When standing in the traditional upright stance, there is little balance and once the lifting begins, the antagonistic muscles actually begin draining the contractor (the ones used in the exercise) muscles of strength and energy. To place yourself in the strongest standing position, you should place one foot approximately 3-4 inches in front of the other in a staggered stance. This will place you in a much stronger stance permitting more work to be performed. Boxers, martial artists, baseball players and track and field athletes also use the staggered stance. If you ever see pictures of past Olympic lifters such as Vasily Alexeev or Paul Anderson, you will notice that their feet are staggered when elevating weights overhead.
I use a staggered stance on just about everything that I do in the gym while standing.
keith w
Very interesting. Great effort at thinking outside the box. I’m sure you’ll catch some flack for not using
“perfect squatting form”. Not to worry, I’m sure Dick Fosberry caught his share of ridicule.
Most sports are played as a form of organized chaos with the feet not perfectly in line. That’s why I find this interesting. Thanks.
TNT
Good timing.
I was working with a HS wrestler just last night and his natural squatting stance was like this, just not as dramatic. At first I was going to correct it but after talking to him (he said he thought he was doing it because it is like his natural wrestling stance), I decided to let it go. He seemed to do just fine and looked perfectly solid with the stance.
eager to see what the coaches have to say