Squats - how often

[DJinTraining06]

I'm working out basically 3 days a week, i try to do upper body and abs on tues and sat, and lower body and tri/biceps on thrusday. Is 1 day a week enuff for the legs if i go really intesnse on squats. I usually do squats and 1 or 2 machines which i like to mix up (hamstring,quads, etc.) I do the squats last of course cuz i am dead afterwards. Is once a week enuff for legs tho? how often do u guys do ur squats?

 

[Warboss Alex]

once a week is fine especially if you go all out on them! same goes for chest, back. why are you doing upper body twice a week?

 

[DJinTraining06]

once a week is fine especially if you go all out on them! same goes for chest, back. why are you doing upper body twice a week?

I dont feel sore and have tons of energy i feel like its a waste not to do it twice a week. If im only do upper body once a week, and lower body once a week, its only 2 day a week, ist that too little?

 

[Warboss Alex]

I dont feel sore and have tons of energy i feel like its a waste not to do it twice a week. If im only do upper body once a week, and lower body once a week, its only 2 day a week, ist that too little?

depends on your recovery. soreness is not an indicator of a productive workout nor is having energy or not ..

try
day 1 - legs
day 3 - chest
day 5 - back

and see how you go..

 

[spesmilitis]

personally, i prefer twice in a seven day period.

 

[Skilla_Staz]

I prefer once. If I go once a week, my numbers are MUCH higher than if I were to go twice a week.

Over the summer the football coach had us doing a "heavy day" and a "light explosive day"

Bench was always stuck around 125-145ish.

Now, after only 3 weeks of lifting, after taking about a month or two off, my bench is up to 170.

 

[Warboss Alex]

Over the summer the football coach had us doing a "heavy day" and a "light explosive day.

He must like Westside.

 

[Skilla_Staz]

At first I read that and was like "Whoa...creepy" because my old highschool was called Westside, and the coach is friends with their football coaches. Then I realized you meant the lifting Westside.

He used some stuff from this Xplosive Edge place around here. I wasn't too fond of the way his workouts were set up though. It was basically a full body workout, 4 days a week. They GAVE us weights to use, and if it was easy or hard, they adjusted from there. By the end of the summer, I was beginning to feel like sh*t day in and day out. I felt like I was over training big time, and my results showed it.

 

[Kerpal]

I do it 3 times a week, Sunday, Tuesday and Friday, 3 sets of 5. My squat has gone up 155 lbs since I first started doing this a few months ago.

 

[Drum&Bass]

How the fcuk can someones deadlift be bigger than their squat ?!?!?!

NEVER DO SQUATS LAST, SQUATS SHOULD BE LEAVING YOU CRIPPLED WHEN YOUR DONE..There aint no need to use 2 machines for your legs. ONLY USE FREE WEIGHT (barbell)

squat once a week, I usually do 4 sets of 10 and then 1 set of 20 (widowmakers I learned about that from some website maybe dis one). you need to be struggling with the weight, if you can easily bang out this routine then you aint working hard enough. AND NONE OF THIS FCKUING HALF SQUAT SH!T YOU NEED TO GO AS LOW DOWN AS POSSIBLE OR YOU WASTING YOUR TIME.

If your only working out 3 days a week you wasting your time training your upper body, don't be a tool, that upper body training is bullsh-t, once in awhile is cool if you feel like certain body parts are not in proportion.

But your routine needs to look like squats on monday, deadlift on wednesday, pull-ups, standing row (up-right row?? i dunno) on fridays.

when you get stronger and more expereienced your gonna realize routines are also bullsh!t..and so is the amount of reps..just work till you can't anymore.

get strong with your deadlift its gonna provide the support you need to lift REAL BIG weight comfortably.

 

[Skilla_Staz]

How the fcuk can someones deadlift be bigger than their squat ?!?!?!

I can answer that for ya. My deadlift has ALWAYS had large totals. I think the first time I EVER deadlifted it was around 300lbs.

Last time I did my squats, I had 265 on my back and still wasn't getting below parallel. So apparently my squat needs to have less weight on it.

My deadlift, 345. My squat is probably somewhere around 245 right now.

I'm guessing in a few months, my squat will be up in the 3's and my deadlift will be closing in on 4's.

 

[spesmilitis]

Yah, I can definatly deadlift a lot more than my squats. Check out my workout journal.

Having a workout journal has done wonders for me, highly reccomend you keep one. Keeps you mad focued. You'll also get usefull tips from the warboss alex.

 

[Drum&Bass]

skilla staz, come on now...who do you think your fooling ? your a 17 year old, 150 lb kid..and you honestly mean to tell me the 1st time you started deadlifting you were up in the 300 range..NO DUDE YOU DID NOT DEADLIFT ANYWHERE NEAR 300lbs, at 150 lbs..or how ever heavy you were at the time.

and then you trying to tell you can squat 340 lbs ?? thats 6 forty five plates 2 ten plates and two 2.5 plates...NO STAZ..YOU CANNOT SQUAT THAT MUCH WEIGHT AS A 17 YEAR OLD 150 LB kid.

I've never even seen someone go up in weight like that when your squatting ? 2.5 plates ?? yea ok...

 

[Quiksilver]

My 5x squat is 330,

I'm 18 and 157lbs.

Originally posted by A Retard
NO DUDE YOU DID NOT DEADLIFT ANYWHERE NEAR 300lbs, at 150 lbs..

Jealous?

Originally posted by A Retard
...thats 6 forty five plates 2 ten plates and two 2.5 plates..

wow, did you need a calculator for that?

p.s. if you take the r& out of your name, what does it say?

 

[Throttle]

gentle, quik, the last thing we need around here is a flame war. I think d&b could lay off the overstatements & incredulousness, though, too.

I don't see anything weird about a bigger deadlift 3rm than squat 3rm.