Squat vastly disproportional to Deadlift

[NathanielS]

Proper question is at the bottom, in bold.

Numbers in signature, although the reason for this is my last session was only the third time I've ever squatted. As I've wrote before I've only just got back into lifting, about 3 weeks ago after quite a few months off, before that I'd benched/deadlifted before obviously.

At the moment my training pretty much consists of;

1x5
1x3
1x1

On prettyyy much everything it seems, I squat/military press on one day, then bench/deadlift on the next along with various bodyweight exercises. Although this may seem like a stupid regime, I'm basically just trying to kick my central nervous system up the ass as hard as possible and it's working very effectively (gained almost 60lbs on deadlift, 30lbs on bench, 20lbs on shoulder press since starting lifting again).


My squats barely budging though, I've went from 176x5 to 190x5, which although this isn't bad in general, I feel for noob gains and how much everything else is going up that I should be getting more.

I'm ATG high bar squatting and basically my squat is barely budging, is it more adviseable in gaining strength to merely go parallel or should I stick to ATG and reap the benefits of full ROM?

[isaku900]

u should look at your form before your programming.

[Marc27Default]

With that style of squatting it may take a little while to get closer to your deadlift. You may be built to be a good deadlifter. A powerlifting squat is more similar than an oly squat to a deadlift. Your oly squat will be lower in relation to your deadlift. This might go against strength training but up your reps on the squat for a while, go for 8-10 reps. Build a little more muscle and then lower the reps. A normal ratio for your deadlift might be like 365 deadlift, 295 parallel squat, 275 olympic squat. Sure your squat might be a little low if your a glass half empty kind of guy. Maybe your other lifts are just high :)

Just change the way you train squats for a while, increase reps then decrease. Change sets around. Try some different assistance exercises. You have to find out what works for you.

[sword_]

Just bear in mind that you just got back to lifting and for some individuals there is a gap between their max squat and max deadlift. In my case there is about a 90-100lb difference.