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SignalGruen said:
I believe so especially if you have access to a machine. The have good carryover for regular squats too. Would love a machine for my home gym but can't justify the cost - will probably go the cheapo route of a belt and a landmine.
Yeah ive never seen a specific Hip Squat Machine until i googled it and even then, it looks like alot of people wear a belt and then use something else for the weight.ORD said:
The old timers did and were demonstrably wrong. Squats do not make your arms grow. Eating a lot during a squat programme might.
You cannot overload an isometric exercise with a weight that can be moved. If I can deadlift a weight, that same weight is well below a maximal hold. And when joints are closed, the muscles crossing the joints bear vastly less load.
A 180kg trap bar deadlift for 5 reps will do vastly more than holding the trap bar for 1 minute. Walking with it will do different but also good things.
20 rep squat program will def build bigger arms, mine grew when I started squatting, including just about everything else. You cannot overload an isometric exercise with a weight that can be moved. If I can deadlift a weight, that same weight is well below a maximal hold. And when joints are closed, the muscles crossing the joints bear vastly less load.
A 180kg trap bar deadlift for 5 reps will do vastly more than holding the trap bar for 1 minute. Walking with it will do different but also good things.
markcoznottz said:
20 rep squat program will def build bigger arms, mine grew when I started squatting, including just about everything else.
How do the squats trigger increased protein synthesis in arm muscle tissue? I’ve no doubt that most people will get bigger all over during a 20 rep squat programme, but diet is the overwhelmingly most likely cause of that. ORD said:
markcoznottz said:
20 rep squat program will def build bigger arms, mine grew when I started squatting, including just about everything else.
How do the squats trigger increased protein synthesis in arm muscle tissue? I’ve no doubt that most people will get bigger all over during a 20 rep squat programme, but diet is the overwhelmingly most likely cause of that. markcoznottz said:
20 rep squat program will def build bigger arms, mine grew when I started squatting, including just about everything else.
Were you doing weights for other bodyparts at the same time? If you'd said your delts/traps grew there might be a (however unlikely) possibility. And that only by released test binding to sites of higher androgen receptor density. The trouble with the DO SQUATS FOR INCREASED TEST PRODUCTION popeyewhite said:
Were you doing weights for other bodyparts at the same time? If you'd said your delts/traps grew there might be a (however unlikely) possibility. And that only by released test binding to sites of higher androgen receptor density. The trouble with the DO SQUATS FOR INCREASED TEST PRODUCTION myth theory is squats are a major stressor on the body...and stress causes the release of cortisol...and cortisol suppresses testosterone.
And that the testosterone spike is very short-lived and that lifters tend to have lower, rather than higher, testosterone lever. 
I think there's something in that ancillary work. I'm not finished till everything is cleared away. Sometimes that might be 5 minutes or more.
If I'm not tidying up, then it means something is wrong, probably hurt. Even exhaustion is no excuse not to tidy up, saw some fat like presser the other day use the 50 dbs, had to roll them to the bench, did 5 plus half reps, then dropped then, a range of DBs were left all clumped together, all this while I cleared away a combined weight of 300 plus from the Olympic platform, fat lil turd, ...now I need to go lie down.
If I'm not tidying up, then it means something is wrong, probably hurt. Even exhaustion is no excuse not to tidy up, saw some fat like presser the other day use the 50 dbs, had to roll them to the bench, did 5 plus half reps, then dropped then, a range of DBs were left all clumped together, all this while I cleared away a combined weight of 300 plus from the Olympic platform, fat lil turd, ...now I need to go lie down.
TheJimi said:
If you're going heavy and squeezing the bar really tight...
Other than that, I also don't subscribe to the theory that squats build big arms.
Contributory factor? Absolutely. In and of themselves? Not so much, imo.
Indeed, and how many people who are doing squats, are only doing squats? Virtually nobody, and as you say I’d wager that all of the other exercises would contribute to arm growth, probably a lot more so than just doing the squats.Other than that, I also don't subscribe to the theory that squats build big arms.
Contributory factor? Absolutely. In and of themselves? Not so much, imo.
Halb said:
I think there's something in that ancillary work. I'm not finished till everything is cleared away. Sometimes that might be 5 minutes or more.
If I'm not tidying up, then it means something is wrong, probably hurt. Even exhaustion is no excuse not to tidy up, saw some fat like presser the other day use the 50 dbs, had to roll them to the bench, did 5 plus half reps, then dropped then, a range of DBs were left all clumped together, all this while I cleared away a combined weight of 300 plus from the Olympic platform, fat lil turd, ...now I need to go lie down.
If you did some cardio you wouldnt get out of breath ya fat fIf I'm not tidying up, then it means something is wrong, probably hurt. Even exhaustion is no excuse not to tidy up, saw some fat like presser the other day use the 50 dbs, had to roll them to the bench, did 5 plus half reps, then dropped then, a range of DBs were left all clumped together, all this while I cleared away a combined weight of 300 plus from the Olympic platform, fat lil turd, ...now I need to go lie down.
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A quick question, for an average joe like me, does doing squats and deadlifts sufficiently work the calves and hamstrings? I have been doing calf raises separately for a while now, and many places advocate doing separate work on the hamstrings. I tried some stiff legged deadlifts today but it just felt like I was gently stretching the muscle.
Nice lil vid by Nick's S&P
6mins
Why do Men's Gymnasts have such Big Biceps?
https://youtu.be/DftQl3cVKMA6mins
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