Do you want to gain oodles of muscle?
What about strength and power?
Interested in boosting your metabolism? Cranking up your fat burning furnace, and improving digestion?
Well then, you my friend need to squat!
If you’ve ever read any ‘real’ strength and muscle building publications, you’d notice real quick that squats area a virtual cure all.
Way back ‘in the day,’ like pre World War 1 back in the day, squats were usually done while balancing yourself on the balls of your feet. As you can imagine, this form didn’t allow for using heavy weights.
But that all changed when a guy named Milo Steinborn landed on the shores of America.
Milo was a German squatting machine. He showed the rest of the world his ‘peculiar’ squatting style. He would do the movement while standing ‘flat footed.
In other words, he wasn’t trying to tippy-toe around like a ballerina. As a result, Milo worked his way up to using 500 pounds in the ‘Deep Knee Bend,’ as they called it back then.
Soon there after, the ‘Milk and Squat’ routine was born. And we saw guys packing on 20, 30 or more pounds with a few short months of hard training, and developing Super Hero strength.
Some guys, like Joseph Curtis Hise, transformed themselves into 300 pound behemoths.
Bodybuilders like John Grimek and Reg Park worked up to over 600 pound personal bests in the lift.
Paul Anderson purely focused on squats during his early training years. He grew to over 300 pounds, won Olympic Gold, and eventually did an 1185 pound squat!!
And don’t think this early ‘specialization’ harmed his pressing ability. Paul was able to eventually push press 545 pounds, and bench 625 lbs even though he didn’t specialize on the bench. No wonder he’s considered one of the strongest men to have ever lived.
Want a modern example?
Bud Jeffries has worked up to a 1,000 lbs squat. And he did this without any of those ridiculous powerlifting suits or wraps. Just a belt and plenty of hard work!
Oh, something that needs to be mentioned…squats were delivering these benefits long before steroids. So yes, squats will do wonders for us ‘natural’ lifters.
I know, hard to believe…squats are responsible for some of the largest, strongest, and best developed lifters…but it’s true. They’re that versatile. But you have to work ‘em hard and EARN IT!
In my next tip I’ll share some more info on the squat, and how you can implement it into your training.
For now, keep in mind that, regardless of what your training goals are, more than likely squats can help.
Regardless if you want to gain size, strength, stamina, get shredded, and even improve our health…SQUAT!
Train Smart, Train Hard
Ray Toulany
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