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box squats in gym class

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Posted by: primus_122

today in school in my weight lifting class i decided i wanted to work hard today and start off with box squats and work my way up. I found a box that was used for aerobics i believe that was made out of metal that some kid in shop made so i took it over to the squat rack and started squating. The teacher came up to me and yelled at how i he understands that its helping me know that im going low enough on the squat but he says it will hurt my spine. I did not believe this, so i put the box back and went to a diffrent exercise because i was pissed off. I was warming up with 135 at that point and i was thinking how powerlifters do 500-800 pounds on their box squats, then i started thinking on how any seated exercise on a push movment would injure your back if this was true. I had proper form and a tight core and never slouched when i sat down. so to sum it up am I right that it doesnt injure your spine or is he right? p.s. I hate ignorant gym teachers


Posted by: WilliamB

Gym teachers suck. Gym teachers also teach football and have the players in the gym practicalliy 7 days a week.


Posted by: ihateschoolmt

You are right. I hate when people give bad advice. I was squating on day and this big guy came up and told me I was squating to low. I was only going parallel too. He told me to go half way down because it's bad for your knees. I told him it accually strengthens your knee's to squat parallel and he told me it's not possible to make your knee's stronger.


Posted by: Seanp156

It's not actually possible to make a joint stronger is it? Wouldn't it just be the muscle surrounding the joint that would support it to help it handle more weight/stress?


Posted by: ihateschoolmt

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Originally Posted by Seanp156
It's not actually possible to make a joint stronger is it? Wouldn't it just be the muscle surrounding the joint that would support it to help it handle more weight/stress?
You're right, you can't strengthen bones. I was talking about the muscles around the knee.


Posted by: JoeR.

Dude welcome to life, you are going to get bad advice and false information forever. I am in college and my health teacher classifies creatine with steroids.....My weight training teacher believes in doing 30 sets per muscle group....it keeps going forever.


Posted by: WATTS

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Originally Posted by WilliamB
Gym teachers suck. Gym teachers also teach football and have the players in the gym practicalliy 7 days a week.
you can say that again...i got kicked off my football team because i wouldnt do my couches lift...then he came back to me 30 min later, and appologized for his stupidity.


Posted by: P-funk

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Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt
You're right, you can't strengthen bones. I was talking about the muscles around the knee.

sure you can. weight lifting can help prevent osteoperosis. the bones act as piezo crystals by releasing electrical charges against the mechanical force. these electrical currents then trigger the osteoblasts to accumulate calcium.


Posted by: Squaggleboggin

Yeah, my friend actually JUST talked to me about his weightlifting in gym class (about five minutes before I read this; I actually came on here to ask and make sure I was right about something). He said that he was going down as far as he could when squatting, and that they told him he should go thighs parallel. I read something on here before that said that it can actually damage your knees by stopping halfway like that. Is this true? Even if it's not, like said above, it'll strengthen your knees even more by going all the way down.


Posted by: WilliamB

I think that my knees experiance more pressure when I stop to soon. if I stop and my hams are only parellel and not a little more I think my knees feel more pressure. I think its best to go a little past parellel to remove the pressure from the knee. Just do what feels comfortable. When I do squats I just do what feels like a natural squat and then stand up. Feet shoulder with apart point the knees out and squats, thats all there is to it.







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