Two Squat Movements. Education is Critical

When I was just getting started, I used to repeat everything that I read from all my muscle magazine publications.  It sounded good, and being that Arnold and all the other great brains said it was true, well, it had to be, right? 

Wide grip bench press is more for chest, hack squats build better quads, regular squats thicken your butt more than anything, t-bar rows add back thickness.  The list goes on.

As a 14 year-old kid, I appeared to be brilliant.  One important thing was missing.  A true understanding of how muscles really work. At this young age, I didn't know why these statements were true.  Understanding your body, and how it moves, will help you immensely.

My next 5 or 6 videos are going to give you an education on why certain exercises affect different areas on our bodies, and how just slightly changing angles will really produce a completely different exercise.

The first one will be the squat.  When watching the video, really try to understand the difference between the movements.  They really are somewhat the same, but oh so different.  If you are training at a gym, you will probably have access to a hack machine.  That's great.  If at home, all you have to do is get those heels up, and really try to get those knees out front of your toes.  Exactly what you do not want to do on your regular squats, where you are sliding your butt back, giving you alot more hip extension.  This situation is much like the two different deadlift movements that I showed on one of my earlier videos.  With the "hack squat", by locking the hips and extending your knees way out, you really are creating a single joint movement, focusing directly on the quads.  So much so, that your quads will be screaming like they do after a set of leg extensions. 

Watch the video carefully.  A great superset combo is to do a set of these "hack squats", and then quickly move into a regular squat.  Believe it or not, if you can trash yourself with the first stage, you can just use bodyweight on the regular squats.  If you transition quickly, you will see what I mean.  Or set up a bar for the second half.  At any rate, find your way.  You can always look back to my leg superset video, or my other earlier lower body videos to see.  I believe that I show the superset in detail.

Any questions or comments, please fire away.

Lots more coming.  Think, think, think