Biomechanics Gurus are KILLING YOUR GAINS ("Squats are highly overrated for 90% of people" 🙄)
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- According to Ben Yanes (@The_Modern_Meathead ) aka the Modern Meathead, "barbell squatting is highly overrated for 90% of the population," and anyone with even the tiniest smidge of length to their femurs will not be able to build their quads with squats because they "force the individual to work around the bar." As a result squats do nothing but create "crippling back pain" and fail to build any appreciable leg muscle in these individuals.
That's quite an assertion! Especially considering it was done primarily in meme format on Instagram, with little substance to any of the actual claims beyond trying to be cute.
In today's video we analyze Ben' Yane's post on barbell squatting and why he believes it be a poor exercise choice for 90% of the population. We touch on...
-Why I believe Ben makes "edgy" clickbait content like this
-How he is just trying to get you to replace one form of dogma with another (his own)
-Why the term "barbell squats" is so generic that it's meaningless
-How different barbell squatting VARIATIONS (of which there are countless) can be made to better suit different individuals
-Why even if Ben's assertions here are 100% true (which they aren't) they're still a moot point when analyzing the overall fitness picture anyway
-The real reason why people have issues with barbell squatting
Lots to digest today! I hope you enjoy the video and find it informative. Please remember to smash the like button before you go, leave me a friendly comment down below, and share the video around to spread the good word!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 "Squats are overrated for 90% of the population" lol
2:08 Check out Barbell Apparel!
3:04 Reject the dogma....unless it's mine!
4:45 "Barbell squats" is so generic it's meaningless
8:14 Why Ben's entire post is patent BS
11:13 Ben promotes absolutism in disguise (dangerous!)
12:38 Stop pretending YOU issues are movement issues
15:15 The whole world doesn't have "long femurs"
18:42 My advice to Ben Yanes
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Who’s bigger edge lord him or Eugene ?
That's a good question 😂
Good to see you, Matt C brother.
Who's Eugene?
@TheMuscularWeakling #whoops
@Croissantrophy oh I looked him up I recognize him I remember him saying some ridiculous stuff before but I've just tuned it out at this point lol sad that he's got more than half a mil subscribers and guys like Alec have
Jeff Cavaliere walked so Ben Yanes could run. On 2nd thought, nevermind. Running probably isn't optimal.
My immediate reaction was to lol...but after thinking about it that's actually a pretty poignant truth in the social media fitness space.
Same dude who shits on OHP and pullups, so you can guess my opinion on him...
He shits on all basic movements that includes squat,bench,ohp and then recommends some weird ass alternatives that are more complicated for absolutely zero benefit.
He doesn’t have an impressive physique either. Not even an n=1 use case for Mr Biomechanics.
That clip of Althean-X telling you to breath out always gets a good chuckle out of me. Breath out and let your spine leave this dimension.
It's the most bafflingly incorrect piece of squatting advice I have ever heard in my life. And it came from the godfather of UA-cam fitness lol tells you all you need to know about UA-cam fitness tbh
I don’t understand how he could be in the industry that long and still be THAT clueless. But his workout programs are laid out just as retardedly.
"People are trading what has worked with what sounds good" -thomas sowell
more like thomas soywell
@@ThePainkiller9995 what's wrong with soy
How can Yanes expect any hypertrophy enthusiast to take his content seriously when his physique looks the same as it did a year and a half ago? His genius methods have made him plateau at a mediocre level
Yeah, it's interesting. He has a lot of followers on IG, far more than I have on any platform, so I guess the message resonates. But that was my first thought as well...you speak as a massive authority and shit talk everything that works while looking decidedly average the whole time. At least we know he's natty!
Fun fact. He actually built most of his muscle base with barbell movements. When people called him out for being weak he posted video from 3 years ago where he deadlifted 600,benched 315x3 and squatted 11x405. Thats actually pretty strong but it only proves opposite of what hes promoting because he built most of his muscles with barbell movements and when he transitioned to training with mostly cables he made zero hypetrophy gains. If anything I think he actually looked even bigger on that older video where he was doing powerlifts than how he looks now.
@@Marko-ij4vy that wouldn't surprise me at all, and also pretty clearly shows that everything he promotes now is BS lol
@@Marko-ij4vyI remember that. He also gets shoutouts from a lot of the powerlifting community since his schtick is pretty popular in that space.
Pandering to an out of shape audience that can barely read really seems to work
I don’t lift for hypertrophy (it’s a welcome side effect, but it’s not the purpose). I lift for strength and performance. Barbell squats (back and front) have returned mobility and strength in my 50’s that I thought had gone forever. It has also contributed to some mass increase in my legs, but that’s incidental to the performance benefits. I’m glad to be one of the lucky 10 percent.
Exactly the same for me. At 56 I'm stronger and more mobile than I was at 40, thanks in large part to frequent sessions of those "overrated" squats.
@@republicjim120 I personally enjoy training for hypertrophy. You can train for hypertrophy and still do barbell squats. Many of the main barbell movements are great for hypertrophy.
Awesome to see two people at almost twice my age still training and getting the benefits. You guys are the best inspiration.
man, the ad with the elevator song made me laugh so hard
(also obv nice video as always!)
Lol and the same guy posted how most guys neglect adductors because adduction machines are "for girls" yet says to stop doing squats because they work adductors more than quads (they actually do in some cases depending on the squat style but then posts how most guys neglect adductors). Completely contradicting himself.
I hate when people neglect something because “it is for girls”. Same type to not shower because “hygiene is for girls”. A good squat will hit the quads, adductors, and glutes.
So many good points. Anecdotally, before powerlifting, I wouldn’t barbell squat much. Usually just murder myself on the hack squat. Which was fun, but when I started doing heavy back squats is when my legs really grew.
Ben Yanes hugs the cable machine for an hour and calls it a workout
Great video, Coach. Thank you.
I appreciate the support bro
Pin squats are helping me a lot. I have overcome my inner knee trouble in my right leg. I’m in my 50s and looking for the most optimal training so I’m not walking around with a cane in 10 years. Im actually walking around like a “tank” thanks to pin squats. SSB squats not available for me but Smith machine squats as a secondary exercise seems to help. No way I’m getting that mobility back but the Smith machine keeps me upright and activates the lower quad just enough. Pin squats and Smith machine squats if you want to keep it simple 👍
man I'm no great shakes a lifter, i'm just an extremely average guy just shy of 40. But ever since I got my squat over 300lbs and deadlift over 400lbs my lower back pain has almost disappeared. crazy
I believe it. Strengthening my lower body helped my body in so many ways. My lower has never felt better
How does Ben Yanes get up after sitting down on a chair or sofa? After all, squatting isn't optimal...
He good mornings. Think about it.
I've got a bum shoulder from an injury. I was told flat bench is the worst for shoulder so I avoided it for the first 3 months of training but every chest exercise I tried worked my shoulders more. Tried flat benching( barbell and dumbbell) a week ago and I'm in love with how good they feel. Never dismiss a perfectly good lift just because it's "dangerous".
Back when I had a shoulder injury I focused on closed grip bench press and it helped immensely with my recovery.
Ronnie Coleman, Dorian Yates, Arnold, Lee Haney, and John Grimek built their backs using barbell rows
After a year of only doing High Bar Squats, RDLs, Leg Curls and Extensions, 2 times per week as my leg workout, I exploded in size. The other day I tried to use the leg press again and it felt like if I was doing quarter squats, so I will stick to my barbell dogma, thanks.
You always gotta get that breathe out clip in there some how 🤣
Ben is a clown. He also says pull ups don’t build lats.
Hes popular because he's telling lazy people what they want to hear.
I know nothing about him but I'll wager hes one of these university types that has all the credentials but can't actually do anything .
Wonder where I got mine then!
@@EnkiriElite by harnessing the power of biomechanics 🤓
What's next? Going Brignole and telling us dips don't build tris?
These dudes think that super remedial biomechanical is sufficient for creating training theory. The internal resistance created by other muscles keeping your joints in place and maintaining positioning is a massive massive factor and is totally left out so they think that the external load is the total resistive force.
ben has always been a biomechanics guru and is a self proclaimed king of knowledge without the evidence to ever back it up
Easily the worst fitness person around right now
Yo Mr Enkiri, is it good if i replace for ever high bar squats? I fell once and felt my right knee crack horribly, and it starts "aching" during and after HB Squats, but i actually feel no pain doing front squats
So i do heel elevated front squats
I am moving 100 kg and paused for like 4-6 reps
Without belt, idk if that is relevant
In the combat sports strength/conditioning meta, there is TONS of absolute farcical silliness like this hired into the conversation by paranoid old school coaches who broscienced their way to victory in an era and sport where sports science was essentially absentee.
You get the "lifting weights is bad because you get too big and slow... drop and give me 100 pushups" type of shit (like, multiple face palms for this one... pushups IS resistance training, only training upper body, only high rep ranges...)
They hate basic squats because they're not 'sport specific enough' so they'll literally do Bosu Ball one legged zercher fuck-ups that combine the motion of a takedown and a strike in one thinking they're somehow making an optimal movement...
oh my god, there are SO many Joel Seedmans in this space, and I am constantly battling with other coaches to stop confusing students and just teach them the basics. We are talking 16 year old athletes who've never backsquatted before being taught all this random nonsense... run before you can walk to the extreme. And the few useful sport-specific movements they do do, they have ZERO idea about programming them and again have anti-truthful ideas on how things apply.
I hear stuff like, "well, you're a bigger dude so you should do more reps to lose weight while you lift, but this guy here is skinny so we want him doing singles". It makes ZERO sense.
Just a PSA: if you're knowledgeable on fitness and want to enter an area where they are literally DECADES behind on basic sport science principles for strength + conditioning, start applying to be a coach for fighters. I promise you that things that are totally basic to you will be revolutionary to the people around you and you will have more knowledge than top-level coaches who charge hundreds $ per hour without even understanding anything about the sports. It's that bad.
They still punch dumbells in the air expecting to increase the power in their punches not understanding that there is no force except wind resistance in the pressing motion. 😳😳😳
/rant
I have gathered this to be the case with S&C for fighting just from context and anecdotes such as yours.
But being as how I know nothing about fighting I have tried to stay in my lane by not talking about it, even though some of the stuff I have seen/heard is outwardly very stupid and/or useless.
Building strength, power, and muscle is a universal concept, and those methods apply equally effectively to nearly every single sports. Granted, you will obviously have some idiosyncrasies from sport to sport depending on specifics, but training a martial artist the exact same way you train a running back would be pretty damn effective in reality.
@EnkiriElite exactly, yeah. There are some nuances when making a wholistic program that incorporates all the skill work, cardio, drilling, etc for the sport and the peaking and periodization is different (this is also a very very weak area for them... many of them have never even heard of these things) but any sport with explosive power output demand is pretty universal to train for, especially given it's mostly amateur athletes we're talking about. Like, sub 200 pound squatters. Not competent pro athletes looking to optimize every 1% they can squeeze out of things (at least where I have coached).
Since I started boxing and weightlifting at the same time as a teenager, I existed in both cultures and was able to realize just how much further along the strength athletes were on everything regarding s&c... but it's also why I feel like I have a unique edge in this market to really help out a lot of people 🤞
I wonder if somewhere in rural india when everyone else squats down to eat or work on something theres a guy standing there going on about his femur length.
Forgot about him for a second. He's a decent posterboy for the biomechanicsmaxxing gym goers.
Alec is the last bastion of us free weights enjoyers. Please keep this quality content coming.
there aren't enough of us left man! the tides have shifted on this platform in recent times in ways that I don't personally find very palatable, unfortunately.
The point on the dogma is interesting. Everyone adopts a form of dogma. And really all that means being Anti-ADD in the gym. An issue with all these fitness influencers is everyone says variants of either the same shit, or they all contradict the hell out of each other with different random shit. There’s so much noise out in this space that it’s near impossible to concentrate and dedicate to a certain aspect of training without being stalled out by more eye grabbing non-sense.
I’ve been the victim of training ADD for years and only the last 3 or so have I been able to get past it a bit, but even still a lot of crap is out there to distract or dissuade you from one thing to another and the only thing you can really do as someone who wants to accomplish a training goal is to just say “fuck it”, choose something, and say no to everything else until you get what it is you’re after. It’s so hard to do that but it’s honestly become necessary and I don’t think general fitness individuals realize how important that is. It is the most maddening thing to me honestly.
"evidence based experts" in a nutshell.
strange that these experts always use anecdotal evidence instead of scientific evidence😂
@@kiyoponnn Actually they have no anecdotal evidence either. I have yet to see even anectodal evidence that these weird ass exercises are better than exercises that have been time tested and proven to work for majority of people for decades. They are based on theories and hypothesis let alone anectode or science.
Evidence based but I ignore the evidence because it doesn't fit my ideology
Evidence based has became a marketing term to sound more relevant. Unless these self proclaimed "evidence based" guys are scientists themselves then "evidence based" basically just means they know how to use google.
Ben is clearly coping. He did more than 5 reps on squats one day, and it hurt his soul. He suffered, and learned to hate squats. He used all of this to talk himself out of squats.
Oh, and lmmfao @ "anti-bracing".
You know what they say, pressure makes diamonds....but it also busts pipes!
IDK if you know or agree but Zack Talendar (hope that's how you spell it) made a case of squatting for tall people. Lot of great points as well.
Oh no! I better stop squatting right now or I might get a stronger back as well as stronger quads!
- long femur gang
Speaking of Biomechanics and fearmongering :
i posted a Short vid of me doing the *Snatch grip High pull* and it was from a high hang as well .. and i got a comment from someone telling me :
"What are u doing ? u gonna slip a desk and break your back"
from all the Deadlift and Squats videos and he choose the one that almost have no spinal loading to begin with to break my spine in half ... 🤦😂
i just told him : "Well it's my spine and i can break it if i want to , and not all of our spines are made of thin paper like urs"
The “modern meathead” who looks absolutely nothing like an actual meathead would. Ironic
It's annoying when people thing Quad growth is the ONLY reason to squat!
My femurs are as long as my spine and I can hit quads very hard with a highbar back squat in flats just fine just because I put in the slightest investment in ankle mobility to allow my knees to come forward a lot. Literally just calf raises with a pause at the bottom every rep and try to sink it lower and lower. That was all it took. And for even more quad bias I elevate my heels, which is something everyone can do, which makes quad biased barbell squatting 100% accessible and viable for the vast majority of people.
So calf raises helped with your ability to get your knees over your toes? Good information, as I've struggled with that as a long legged guy myself
as soon as he attended N1 training seminar he just became the good ole fitness guru lol
I like your take on dogma
One of those little things that irritates me about social media. I got 100 more of em!
If you're looking for big pumoed legs that help with nothing in sports or life then one can do leg presses and other iexercise machines but if you're looking for explosive power that Carries over to sports then a certain amount of barbell strength is paramount
Its about context.
This guys assuming everyone wants a certain result when they might not.
To work around the bar... As if it was not what one in fact does, you wedge your body in between ground and the weight to move it.
I have long femurs, I still squat 3 times a week, people will take any excuse to alleviate themselves of the possibility they are accountable for their own failures - put a lighter weight on the bar if you have bad leverages, stopping altogether is asinine. Matt Wenning prescribes accessories as a means to attack the weaknesses' in each given persons compound lifts, Ben Yanes suggests just quitting those compound lifts (Squat)?
Good on you man! Didplaying the tenacity required to overcome our weaknesses is becoming increasingly more and more rare with the Ben yanes of the world taking over. I applaud and respect anyone who possesses the grit required to say fuck that and try their hardest even when biology didn't necessarily deal them the "optimal" hand for doing so.
I have looong femurs too and just squatted 5 plates yesterday
Matt Wenning also thinks Overhead press wears your shoulders out and you shouldn't do it unless you have to for competition ☠☠
@@cheeks7050 I love old school guys like matt...unfortunately every now and then an element of "You can take the old school guy out of the 90s but you can't take the 90s out of the old school guy" rears it's head in a dogmatic and unfounded opinion such as that one.
I mean, it's not necessarily "unfounded," as I am 100% sure matt is basing it on his personal experiences. But his personal experiences are all super strong, super stiff and bound up, super roided up, and typically geared bench pressers. What their shoulders can handle is not the same as what mine can handle.
Yes, giving very niche roidhead advice as if it is true for normies is something I don't like. And yeah of course he's not all bad.@@EnkiriElite
Hot take: people only dislike barbell rows because they aren’t good at them
Hot take: everyone who likes barbell rows does them with the worst form imaginable 😂
He should try slightly lighter high-rep squats and tell us his back hurts but he doesn't feel it in his quads. I think even many who are solely chasing hypertrophy avoid high-rep squats simply because they are extremely uncomfortable. However, it seems like they worked okay for Platz. Not only are squats good for mass, they can also build muscle endurance and mental toughness.
Yeah, the part I personally find the most ironic is thst nearly every single "hypertrophy enthusiast" (outside of roided up bodybuilders) invariably almost always has chicken legs.
@@EnkiriEliteOk that stings a bit. But upper body bros really does characterize a lot of gym lifters pretty well 😆
the pendulum always swings back and forth between "barbells are the only way" and "barbells are bad" when the truth is that barbells are just one of many effective training modalities for various goals. What matters so much more is intent. If you're doing an ultra low bar squat to parallel with massive hip involvement and chasing numbers and you're wondering why your quads aren't growing that big, it's not the barbell's fault. It's how you're using it. In fact, I'd almost be willing to wager that a lot of people's mistaken resentment towards barbells comes from a similar experience. I remember when the circlejerk was "if you wanna get big, get strong on barbell compounds". In pursuit of these standards, I ended up with a double bodyweight bench and still had a bird chest and small arms, or at least way smaller than you'd expect someone with that bench to look. If you ever heard "theres no one who benches 315 with a small chest" that's bullshit, I was an example. Then I lifted almost exclusively with machines for a time and my chest blew up in size. For a brief time, I thought barbells were just bad for building muscle. Then I came to realize my training was the problem, not the tool. I was maximizing leverages, taking the widest grip and biggest arch possible, perfecting my leg drive, all for the purpose of hoisting more weight. Had I taken a more moderate form with the intent of stimulating the chest, and taken my barbell skullcrushers seriously instead of sandbagging them, I would have seen a lot more growth in my chest and arms from the start.
I really do think a lot of people had a similar experience:
"I wanna get jacked!" -> "just get strong on barbell compounds brah" -> *chases numbers, reaches high numbers but doesnt get jacked* -> "wow it must be the barbells fault machines are better"
Now the new wave of optimalbrah lifters is kind of trying to capitalize on the disillusioned lifters who listened to rippetoe and reddit parrots back in 2016 with another stupid reactionary view "look if everything isn't biomechanically perfect according to my calculations its shit 🤓🤓🤓"
I want everyone to understand: lift with fucking intent! Barbells are a great training implement. They aren't god's gift, and they aren't bad either. They are a tool for you to achieve your goals that has been demonstrated to be effective by countless lifters for a wide variety of fitness goals. But you need to actually use them in the proper way to achieve what you want to achieve! Not everything has to be "optimal biomechanics" dude. As long as you have a WORKABLE form that allows you to target the goals you want to target effectively.
(commenting while still watching the video - I'm assuming you'll also say a lot of the points I did. Rip apart these optimal gurus!!)
EDIT: yup I'm almost thru the vid and looks like we're totally on the same page here lmao
Bird chest mean small chest? Huh? Birds have fucking huge chests
@@darkclownKellen just looked it up and apparently bird chest typically refers to pectus, which is a chest deformity where the ribs and sternum grow outward. I thought it was slang for small chest, but I was just using the term incorrectly my bad
What are some of your short term goals and do you have specific long term goals?
Short term
-Anderson front squat 350lbs at ATG depth
-SSB good morning 300x3 to torso parallel with floor depth
-Improve my agility drill times
-Jump farther on both one and two legs
Long term
-stay as athletic as possible for as long as possible while feeling as good as possible
I don't necessarily disagree with the main point of his post, but rather the execution. Rather than saying, "Hey, some people aren't built for back squats, so if you are one of those people, hack squats, leg presses, and pendulum squats are great alternatives to test out and see if you find value from them.", he goes the dogmatic route and proposes this arbitrary "90% of people" are not fit for back squat. It's baffling to me how people can see this and fall for this cult of "optimization." Each post Yanes's aggravates me beyond belief because I am certain he is aware that he could and SHOULD display information in a way that isn't dogmatic but he chooses to out of self promoting motivations.
Aye. Same principle applies in many aspects of life. As a Christian with a deep knowledge of history, philosophy, science, etc...I find it funny when people tell me I'm "indoctrinating" my kids. Like...yeah...that's the point. I'm laying a firm foundation. You can and will try to eff it up later, but that's why I'm building it so soundly.
Can you discuss Coath Blaha?
What about him?
@@EnkiriElite roast the unathletic fraud.
@@arcaneknight9799I mean, it’s dumb that people are paying him money for coaching, especially if he’s just giving them 5/3/1 BBB templates. But if people are dumb enough to pay him for that, then that’s on them.
@@cramz101do you live in 2017? Hes all about conjugate now
@@hipdrive Apologies, my knowledge of blohology is pretty limited these days.
I've been waiting to see what you guys think of him
Seems like it's the same conclusion I came to
You forgot two of my favorites overhead and zercher even if i struggle in ovrhd max rep 50kg 😁 im 77 bodyweight 😁
Just went and checked the guy out. Dude has the most average gym goer leg development. This is definitely a guy that doesn’t know how to either program and/or perform a squat and ran away from it in fear.
2:51 damn Alec, that right arm has been given a little more love than ol' Lefty. explain yourself, young man
I'm left handed so the only explanation is that we love in a bizarro world lol
@@EnkiriEliteoh, I thought that was your right hand lol
"Squats are killing your gains". AthleanX
Our young generation is clearly lost man
Well then it's our job to guide them!
The people with the biggest, strongest and most aesthetic legs are Olympic weightlifters. What do they do? Squats. Back, front and even overhead.
I'm happy someone is finally talking about this dunce😂😂😂
They’re scared of the dogma bc they have no 🐶 in them
Zack Telander certainly proves this guy wrong!!!!!!
That guy is a tall lifter.
I have relatively long femurs and I don't make excuses like that.
Just build a stronger lower back.
Dudes like Ben would call the laws of physics dogmatic
😂💯
I do squats ❤
I don't like to do squats 😢
I tell everyone how awesome squats are 🙃
Well, as a long femured individual, Ben Yanes is fucking wrong. I dont get much back pain from squats and my legs have only get stronger and bigger with consistent squatting
It's almost like squats work your legs lol
@@EnkiriElite exactamundo
Used myriad correctly.
Content creator level: 5000
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Squats make my legs more sore than any “optimal” movement. SIMPLE AS!
Ive always liked lunges better than squats but Im not gonna cope and say theyre better than squats. be strong on 1 and 2 legs. get better at things youre bad at.
I do both. It doesnt have to be on or the another.
@@Marko-ij4vy i also do both
How do you have shitty programming as a total beginner? Free beginner programs are everywhere.
That's true! But I'm confident that many beginners are running shitty programs because the ones who have come to work with me have made massive gains very quickly on very simplistic programming. Only explanation is that what they were doing before wasn't doing jack shit.
Its easy to find effective beginner programs but beginners usually dont know any better and follow advice from their favourite influencers who usually give shitty advice.
You're taking them out of context. Using proper mechanics is a good thing and has had a positive effect on the industry. There's no need to demonise movements but it's just a fact that the barbell squat isn't great for a lot of people, for others it can be fantastic. And this is dependent on proportions. The content from n1 and Kassem is really good and isn't making absolute statements, uses a lot of nuance. But sure there are lot of people misapplying this as well.
Different strokes. I find it all needlessly complex. Taking one of the easiest things in the world and making it sound like it's all very complicated. Good way to make money
@@EnkiriElite I hear people say this all the time about making things too complex but I've yet to see an example. Most of these "optimal" exercises are even more simple and easier to perform than the classic.
A hack squat is more simple and easier to perform than a Barbell Squat as well as having all those mechanical benefits.
Even the cliche Kneeling Lat Pulldown, this is super simple to perform and doesn't require as much technique as the classic lat pulldown which most people butcher. etc.
I think a lot of older lifters get set in their ways and get used to a style of changing, confusing complex for innovative/different.
@@berryvolcano3787 I wouldn't say I'm set in my ways, not woimd I say this stuff is innovative. It's just reinventing the wheel in a fashion with less overall benefit. Not my cup of tea
@@EnkiriElite I'm struggling to see your issue with it, what's wrong with inventing the wheel if there's benefits and no real downsides?
@@berryvolcano3787 because the benefits have been overstated and the downsides have been ignored outright. It's starting to feel like you didn't actually watch my video
just use science to destroy him
Best principal do starting strength and forget arms who needs big arms
Anyone who doesn't barbell squat is a beta
lol agreed
I disagree with the meme, HOWEVER, low bar squat it is not terribely effective for quad grow. Sounds obvious now but to me it wasn't 2 years ago when the biomechanic bros started to pop in youtube. Honestly, after including single leg press with the foot completely on the bottom edge of the machine, my quad grow blown up. A heel elevated smith machine squat also worked very well for me.
_"Back squats are crap for leg hypertrophy because they just load the spine."_ _"You need to do sissy squats instead."_
I see why you hate bodybuilding now, Alec