Question about intense squats - Page 2

**Todd** · 29-Nov-05, 01:08 PM

Speaking of leg day.....TONIGHT is legs for me! Can't wait!

**MostMuscle** · 29-Nov-05, 02:00 PM

Make sure you are breathing correctly during the set and if you are using a belt be sure to take it off between sets, this will help restore normal blood pressure (a common rookie mistake...walking around the gym with a belt on at all times).

**rangers97** · 29-Nov-05, 02:50 PM

What's frustrating to me is that by the time I finish with my squats, it is very hard for me to finish the rest of my workout. Yesterday I did 3 sets of squats, then some how stumbled over to the leg press for 2 sets, then I knew I had more sets for hamstrings to follow, and all I wanted to do was go home and crawl in a corner.

**Todd** · 29-Nov-05, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rangers97

then I knew I had more sets for hamstrings to follow, and all I wanted to do was go home and crawl in a corner.

I've had many days like that....you're so exhausted from hammering your quads that you feel like you got nothing left in the tank for hamstrings, etc. I usually just tell myself I gotta do it...and then I do...don't know how, but it gets done one way or another.

**maverick** · 29-Nov-05, 03:19 PM

If I really need to convince myself its time for hamstrings, I just do good mornings in the squat rack. I just treat the squat rack like its a cage and I can't leave til my quads and hamstrings are fried. Believe it or not, eventhough good mornings are a hell of a lot harder than leg curls or other hamstring exercises outside my "cage", the mental trick does work. Its like a reward to get out of the squat rack and I don't get it til I've done everything.

Blaze · 29-Nov-05, 07:36 PM

Fortunately for me, I don't really get too sick, but I will get light headed from time to time. I get light headed in power cleans all the time, and every so often with squats. Just something ya gotta deal with I guess. I mean, ask anyone around, any serious lifter...are squats not worth all the pain, agony, and annoyance?!

mustang GT · 29-Nov-05, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by rangers97

What's frustrating to me is that by the time I finish with my squats, it is very hard for me to finish the rest of my workout.

I had the same exact problem, but then I just put squats last, so that way when I finish the squats, I'm done.

mustang GT · 29-Nov-05, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MostMuscle

if you are using a belt be sure to take it off between sets, this will help restore normal blood pressure (a common rookie mistake...walking around the gym with a belt on at all times).

Thanks for letting me know. I never used a belt in all of my years of weight training, but this year when I started lifting again, I've been using a belt. I never had experience with wearing a belt, so I didn't know that taking it off betwen sets will help restore normal blood pressure. It's funny when someone who isn't a rookie makes the mistake of having the belt on at all times. lol

**threenorns** · 30-Nov-05, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Blaze

Fortunately for me, I don't really get too sick, but I will get light headed from time to time. I get light headed in power cleans all the time, and every so often with squats. Just something ya gotta deal with I guess. I mean, ask anyone around, any serious lifter...are squats not worth all the pain, agony, and annoyance?!

um.... no.

not really.

if there's one exercise i hate, it's squats. i used to hate bench press because it hurt, but i fixed that. then i hated deadlift because i couldn't do them, but i fixed that. now i hate squats.

**.V.** · 30-Nov-05, 06:42 AM

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now i hate squats.

Fix it.

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**Todd** · 30-Nov-05, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by threenorns

now i hate squats.

Who doesn't?

**maverick** · 30-Nov-05, 05:02 PM

Yeah seriously. I actually get anxiety before i get under the bar everytime. Its the hardest exercise there is. You feel dead afterwards.

Man they are great!

**threenorns** · 03-Dec-05, 12:57 AM

... interesting.

maverick: closet masochist. who knew?

**threenorns** · 03-Dec-05, 01:01 AM

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Fix it.

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i wish i could - but it's my knee: i slid on the ice and twisted it while on my way to the gym a while back and for a couple of days, i could barely put any weight on it. then it cleared up, but two days ago, i tripped (i'm very clumsy) and on my way down, i took out a drafting table and slammed my bum knee on the fins of an oil rad heater.

i'm starting to get the sinking feeling that even when i've lost the excess weight and built up the quad, my knee might be too far shot.

Blaze · 03-Dec-05, 01:55 AM

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Who doesn't?

Exactly! We all hate them! But my point is, you can't beat the results in/with anything else...

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