Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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johnguy
johnguy
Posts: 104
Joined: 2003/01/29
Canada
2003/03/01, 07:34 PM
Have not done squats since grade 10 Rugby days when I did them all the time. 6 years later (today) I decide to add them into my workout plan again. LOL those things are hard to do. Stay steady and keep good form. I asked a trainer to watch over me for a set, just to see if my form was ok.
Hah, then she said that my calves and quads were probably too tight. I must have lost some flex as I did 45min workout prior to this. 12min jog, leg press, calves (sit machine) and two other lag machines. Which she responded I should be warmed up. hahaha Think I need to work on my flexibility again. Another squat machine was being used. Mine was free weight, the other one is on fixed bar, that you move up/down. Still a form of free weight, but she said to give it a few goes next time im in to get my form back.
shelly-jane
shelly-jane
Posts: 4
Joined: 2003/03/02
United Kingdom
2003/03/02, 08:33 AM
home squats that you do without the waits are graet for increasing your flexability so why dont you do those prior to using the machines :)
johnguy
johnguy
Posts: 104
Joined: 2003/01/29
Canada
2003/03/02, 12:20 PM


I will give it a try. Even thou the trainer thought I should have been warmed up, I had already done 30min cardio, jog. And numerous weights with my lags. Which I got for weight as high as I can go with less reps when doing lags. So I think my lags could have been tired and not wanted to go as low as they could. I did the squats at the VERY end of my excersice. Ill start off with them next time after warmup.