Pro Full-Squat :
Arthur Jones, Leistner
Pro //-Squat :
Le consensus général
Voici un nouvel argumentaire en faveur du full-SQT :
Another money lift is the full squat. A lot of athletes and coaches shy away from full squatting, instead using shallow one-fourth squats. This is solely motivated by ego —wanting to lift more weight to impress others. They justify their method by saying that full squats are bad for the knees. As most T-mag readers already know, this is hogwash!
In case you need some ammo defending full squats to the ego-squatters, here's why they're actually safer than partial squats:
• The deceleration path is longer during the full squat. Thus the deceleration is slower during the full squat. The faster the deceleration, the greater the risk of injury.
• It's been established that the most unstable knee angle is 900. Does it make sense to stop (in a rapid manner) and change direction at the most unstable knee angle? It makes about as much sense as hitting the breaks of your car and trying for a 180 degrees turn as you hit a patch of ice! (For most of you, a squat where your knee angle is 900 equates to about a 1/4 squat.)
• Full squatting can actually strengthen the tendons of the knees, making the articulation more stable.
• Full squatting leads to balanced lower body development, while shallow squatting can lead to quad dominance which is the cause of many injuries.
• In the shallow squat you use more weight (that's why it's an ego lift). If you can't full squat a weight, you have no business quarter-squatting it! Your structures (bones, tendons, ligaments) aren't well adapted enough to sustain the load and you risk injury.
• Full back squats can make more difference in sport performance than any other exercise. Notice that I advocate a close-stance full squat with an upright trunk. This is the only way an athlete should squat.
L'auteur est entraineur en haltérophilie, donc forcémement, fallait pas trop s'attendre à ce qu'il critique le full-squat.
Donc voilà , juste pour souligner que ce n'est pas une petite minorité de gourou "hiter" qui enssence le full-squat, apperemment, côté haltérophiles, ce mvt à la prédilection aussi.