why am i **** at squats?

[shadowman575]

i bench more than i squat no joke... i maxed 265 on bench today and my squat is around 200 im like 6'3 and extremely unflexible (i can nowhere near touch my toes) could this be why? dont give me the 'ur a pussy' bull**** im not interested in takeing jip from mostly people who bench less theres probably a logical explanation as to why but i dont know it?

[m1ke1]

honestly, i would gues you spend more time and work harder doing upperbody - thats a common thing, upperbody is fun, legs arent

[PumpinPaddy]

you dont try hard enough

[izzylicious]

i seen some ppl with stronger upper bodies than lower bodies .. just work on fixing it?

[Whey Hey]

you dont try hard enough

x2.

[diskin8]

Your like me, me legs ****in suck, I hate working them, hate squats, when I deadlift it hurts my back, try lunges man, I tried them on Friday for my 1st time and man, my legs were soar the next day (In a good way). Try them and see how you get on.

[shadowman575]

Your like me, me legs ****in suck, I hate working them, hate squats, when I deadlift it hurts my back, try lunges man, I tried them on Friday for my 1st time and man, my legs were soar the next day (In a good way). Try them and see how you get on.

ok thanks will give them a go what sort of weight do u use for them?
and in reply to the other posts ur probably right i probs do put more effort into upper body.

[izzylicious]

yea lunges are good

but u GOTTA squat as long as u can brah , dont ditch em

[JoeClegg]

you must have the weakest legs in the world or are you just mard? no offense dude but sounds like your one of them oh i cant squaT because i have bad kness guys, and benchs 5times a week.

[0verc0m3]

without a doubt your form is suffering if you're not making progress at that low of a weight

leave your ego at the door and put 135 on the bar and just do slow, controlled reps until you have it down

[Somniferous609]

without a doubt your form is suffering if you're not making progress at that low of a weight

leave your ego at the door and put 135 on the bar and just do slow, controlled reps until you have it down

This.

My upper-body was a good bit stronger than my lower-body until last year (265 bench, 245 squat back in March). Honestly, man.. You just gotta do them. Get under the bar and Squat.

I really didn't see great gains until I worked on my form. At home, without weight, do body-weight squats and try to get as low as possible. Do like sets of 20 or until you feel like you had a good stretch. And of course, make sure to stretch hamstrings and hipflexors.

By the way, if you can manage to go ATG.. don't skimp out.

[dunkalicious]

stretch and train ----> that usualy helps

[singyay4ed]

I find that the best way to improve at squats is to put weight on the bar.

[canadiantrojan2]

I find that the best way to improve at squats is to put weight on the bar.

HAHAHA!

[STKazaam]

Shadow I had the same problem as you did. Start stretching and you will loosen up the leg muscles. Once I did this my squat weight started to climb.