Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

Ever since I ditched squats for more friendly/natural movements my strength and size have exploded. I tried for 10 years to perfect my squat form and just could never feel comfortable doing it. My max 1rm with back squat was ~350lbs.

Switching to leverage squat machine is absolutely gamechanger. My 1rm is now 440lbs and my legs have grown significantly. 

Don't feel that any specific lift/exercise is mandatory. Find what feels good and what you enjoy doing. My knees and low back are not longer in constant and pain and I'm making huge progres!

compounds movements like squats and deadlift are not optimal for growth in general, too many muscles involves, not only legs

imo leg press, leg extensions and leg curl are best as they only target quads / hamstring

Proper without pushing off is hard af. good luck! Very humbling exercise.

my goal for this year is to do a proper nordic curl... it's not going great so far 😅

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I focus more on just building muscles by any means necessary rather than forcing arbitrary lifts and hoping that muscle grows.

for quad growth (which let's be honest, this is why people squat), I do Leverage Squat Machine, bulgarian split squats, leg extensions, sissy squats, leg press, smith squats

Regular squats and deadlifts always felt awkward for me. So I do other stuff, or goblet squats