Squats thought experiment

>>38624442
No.

Is the lifter able to squat decent weight before this experiment?

If so, probably ya. Provided they maintain the mobility needed for it and the core and back strength

>>38624442
no

>>38624457
Not even squatting 'decent' weight? The lifter will probablt develop good quads/hams. Why won't this new muscle development help squat some decent weight?

>>38624522
You place a heavy-ass bar on your traps. Your whole body braces to keep you straight. As you go down, you hold your breath and your lungs/diaphragm push against your core muscles which contract and maintain tightness so that you can sit straight down and get up.

You'll get none of that doing your meme exercises. Plus, the pic you have in your OP is quite possibly the most terrible exercise for your knees.

Most importantly, you'll never hit your spinal erectors and hip flexors, which are extremely hard to hit well with anything except high bar ATG squats.

It wont be bad, but you sure as hell wouldn't squat better doing that than just training squats.

>>38624442
I've been doing a ppl routine that includes squatting without squatting for a little more than a month just doing leg presses and hamstring curls for legs
tried to squat yesterday for the first time and managed to get a plate and a half up and down 5 times for 3 sets

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>>38624442
You don't practice ping-pong in order to play tennis a year from now. It's not the same sport, even if it seems similar. You don't do all that shit to get better at squats, you do squats to get good a squats.

>>38624442
Day one? Absolutely not. After eight weeks? Maybe.

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>>38624710
>back extensions literally isolates erectors and you can add weight later to grow them further than would be possible with squats. (dynamic vs static contraction)
>leg raises (literally best for hip flexors if you do it from the hip)
>''the lying on my back and pushing weight with my legs'' machine, which does everything else with added bonus of keeping your spine aligned like God intended.


To be strong guy, well above average, with huge legs, you dont need to do a squat in your life.

>>38624442
Why do you want to squat if your doing those movements already?