No Deep Squats

No Deep Squats!

• Do not Do Heavy Barbell Squats often and when you do never go below parallel. Never go below parallel with any squat and never listen to a trainer or coach tell you to drop your butt to your heels, it’s dangerous and always leads to aches/pains/injuries of low back, hips, and knees. In 25 yrs of training clients and athletes I’ve never seen deep squats do anything but hurt people. You wouldn’t believe the calls I get from people injured from deep squatting. Squats are great yes but they don’t need to be done Heavy very often. Even my competitive power lifters I don’t allow to go deep except for competition only to save their joints, ligaments, tendons, bones, and muscles from pain and injuries. Your way to your strongest squat anyways is by not squatting a lot. Work on other reinforcement muscles thru other exercises like leg presses, leg curls, sumo squats, Romanian deadlifts, variety of lunges, and more. Think out of the box!
• Dave Gluhareff