Hi, first post. I’m 75kg at 6’1. Pretty lean but putting weight on fairly consistently each week on 3k calories a day. Anyway, as per title-my squat weight goes up pretty consistently and I can usually progressively overload by 2.5kg each week and feel generally strong with it, going to failure but always feel I have more in the tank to go beyond my planned reps. But the depth on these is only really parallel and I’d like to have more depth.
Obviously I’m also doing other workouts for my legs too but squats are the focus.
I’m at 90kg high bar squat (5x5) at the moment but want to go ‘ass to grass’ from now on. So Monday I dropped down to 85kg and this wasn’t great... Could barely manage 5 sets of 4, failed miserably on the 4th rep of last set and had to take the bar down to the safety pins. Form was OK but I really felt like I was grinding them out, stalling a bit coming out of the hole, and was finding it hard to keep my chest up when I was all the way at the bottom, back neutral coming back up.
What would be the best way of getting up to my current 90kg and beyond, but ATG depth? Drop weight down considerably, higher reps and build up from there?
OR is that much depth required/ is there much ‘in it’ between parallel and atg in regards to gains and strength building?
Thanks
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