Squatting 3x a week

Sure do whatever you want

>>39121236
Squatting is the number 1 exercise in gaining strength. More strength= more muscle.Squatting forces your whole body to grow.

>>39121236
Or you can just do deadlifts and not squat
I even stopped doing DL because my legs were getting too big (for you) to fit pants and buying pants every few months is too much for me (good pair of pants can go for 150euroes here, which is a lot to me)

>>39121236
squat thrice a week for starters, then wind it back a bit after a few months.

>>39121254
>>39121256
>>39121399
>>39121466
Thanks dudes. I'll take all your wisdom into account.

>>39121256
Objectively false.
No citation at all.
Squatting will make your LOWER BODY grow.
Not your ENTIRE body.
I've never seen someone with massive delts or pecs from squatting.

C'mon now, Anon.

>>39121604
Found the half squatting dyel.

>>39121625
>he thinks squats will give him big arms and chest

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHH FAGGOT

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>>39121604
>>39121744
Squatting triggers the greatest release of test and Growth. So in directly hes right. Stay dyel.
>>39121399
This is only a problem if you were a skelly with twig legs before. Women like strong muscular legs you twink fuck.

>>39121744
Squats only no
Squats + other exercises yes

>>39121787
>citation needed

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>>39121903
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24276305
http://www.ergo-log.com/squat-produces-more-growth-hormone-testosterone-than-leg-press.html
This is pretty common knowledge so for you to ask for a source you must be very new to lifting.

>2016
>falling for the squat meme

don't be one of them parroting faggots, "dO U sKwAt BrO?". Nothing makes me laugh harder than seeing someone squat a fuckton of weight yet barely be able to press 1 plate on the bench.

>>39121256
>People actually believe this
>Being this stupid

I'm super confused now. So is squatting only twice a week fine or not buddies?

>>39121236
Squats 2x week are fine, literally every UL/PPL/PP split does that. 3x week is good too for the first 3-4 months. After that you should manage the volume carefully if you want to progress (neither overtrain nor undertrain)

Oh and by the way, show me ONE picture of a T-Rex guy. Only one I've seen is some dude with curly blonde hair and glasses.
>inb4 Zack, he is overall fat
>inb4 some dude with an obvious case of klinefelter's
>inb4 a powerlifter with >20% bodyfat.
We are discussing training, not elite level training and ridiculous overeating.
Don't be like the chicks who are afraid that touching a barbell will make them blow up overnight like Schwarzenegger.
If you do equal or more volume on upper body than lower, you will grow proportionally.

>inb4 what if I just leg press
Fun fact faggot, leg press induces way higher quad volume than squats because you do way higher volume because core fatigue is no longer a limiting factor
If anything, leg press will make you a T-Rex more than squats ever will
>>39121399
Post body
>>39121604
>upper body is just delts and pecs
>>39121744
>upper body is arms and chest only
>>39122159
>squatting prohibits you from benching

>>39121969
it might be common knowledge, but the release of tiny amounts of growth hormone is pretty god damn irrelevant in building totally unrelated muscles, this shit has been debunked over and over again

OP, do squats but you don't have to do heavy squats 3x a week if your only goal is looking good

>>39121399
you're probably 150lbs soaking wet and look like shit, everybody who says "muh legs are too big" is always a total DYEL pussy

>>39122159
>Nothing makes me laugh harder than seeing someone squat a fuckton of weight yet barely be able to press 1 plate on the bench.
Except no ones like that you faggot.

>>39122382
>this shit has been debunked over and over again
Ok wheres your source, cause i showed mine. Again, im not saying squatting leads to huge arms but i definitely am saying everyone should be squatting. Leg extensions and leg press can never replace a squat.

>>39122476
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19736298

First study showing that increases in anabolic hormones from lifting don't actually help build muscle.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19910330

Second study is more practical, involved exactly what you're talking about, they trained two groups but one group also did some leg exercises noted for their release of growth hormone

Didn't make a damn bit of difference

I'm not disputing that squats release growth hormone, I'm just telling you that it doesn't matter at all.

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ITT dyels

Squats and incline bench are the two best things you can do for aesthetics

>>39122495
>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19736298
>We conclude that the transient increases in endogenous purportedly anabolic hormones do not enhance fed-state anabolic signalling or MPS following resistance exercise.
>First study showing that increases in anabolic hormones from lifting don't actually help build muscle.
Wrong, thats not what they are saying. You are mis-interpreting that.

>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19910330
>followed immediately by a high volume of leg resistance exercise
No where in there does it say squats, also its high volume most likely with low weight. Thats not what i mean at all.

These studies are usually pussy studies where they have people using baby weight with shit range of motion.

>>39122529
Dude, shut the fuck up.

>>39122541
I'm not your dude, pal

>>39122529
>get proven wrong
>b-b-b-but you misinterpreted it

just shut the fuck up and stop spewing misinformation

>>39122565
I'm not your pal, friend.

>>39122541
Mad?
>>39122622
>get proven wrong
How did i get proven wrong? I provided a study that said yes, he provided one that said no. At the end of the day i like squatting so im gonna keep right on doing it.

If I take out one of the squat days on a program like SL5x5, what should I replace it with?

>>39122529
>>39122541

FUCKING REKT

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>>39121236
Yes got to get those aesthetics to build those glutes

>>39122709
BTFO

>>39122705
front squats

or just do greyskull, you only squat twice a week on that

>>39122695
nobody is telling not to squat you idiot manchild, unless you're handicapped you should be squatting

they're telling you to stop spewing broscience

you posted a study saying squats release GH, which was countered with two showing that GH release from exercise doesn't matter

retarded faggot