Squatting Daily

[sqt]

G'day all,

Was just wondering how many of you squat every day. Now, I know a lot of you are simply dabbling in Olympic lifting, but for the real serious guys out there, how frequently do you squat? I know of several world class weightlifters who squat 7 times a week. I've adopted this training frequency myself and find that if I miss a day, I'm substantially weaker the following day.

What are your thoughts on squatting every day?

[matjusm]

G'day all,

Was just wondering how many of you squat every day. Now, I know a lot of you are simply dabbling in Olympic lifting, but for the real serious guys out there, how frequently do you squat? I know of several world class weightlifters who squat 7 times a week. I've adopted this training frequency myself and find that if I miss a day, I'm substantially weaker the following day.

What are your thoughts on squatting every day?

I lift 4x a week, I squat 4x a week. 2x back and 2x front squat. Every training session is also a squatting session. Of course with such frequency you have to be conservative with the volume so I don´t do very long sets.

[Doncanutcho]

Id squat 6x/week if I could

unfortunetly my gym is only open mo/wed/fri

[sqt]

Id squat 6x/week if I could

unfortunetly my gym is only open mo/wed/fri

Best investment I ever made was my squat rack.

[EasternHammer]

When I was training exclusively for OL, I was squatting at least 8 times a week. You get used to it.

[sqt]

When I was training exclusively for OL, I was squatting at least 8 times a week. You get used to it.

If I were to train twice a day (session 1 being squats and session 2 being cleans/snatches/complexes), do I squat morning or evening?

[feces99]

at 6'5" 176, you run starting strength and drill the lifts with light weight.

[EasternHammer]

If I were to train twice a day (session 1 being squats and session 2 being cleans/snatches/complexes), do I squat morning or evening?

For me personally, I very rarely trained without squatting. I was following the traditional Bulgarian approach, the three-lift daily max system. So twice daily squats were pretty standard.