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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Squats

arktos
arktos
Posts: 22
Joined: 2005/11/26
United Kingdom
2006/03/03, 02:49 PM
Doing bodyweight squats on a circuit training routine we were told to perform it with the toes pointing at a 45 degree angle, As I'm used to squatting with a very small angle it seemed starnge and asked why, he then said something about working a muscle and then pointed to his inner thigh which I would say is the hip adductor / gracilis? Surely the entire purpose of the squat is to work the quadraceps. So what mechanical difference is ther between a toes pointed out squat and one where the toes are almost forward? To me his arguament sounds like complete bs, but I have little knowledge on the matter.