Re: Check etc./Box Squats

[Guest guest]

> By the way, Dave, your articles that are up at www.testosterone.net

> are terrific! For those of you on this list who want the real

> skinny on how to do box squats or the congugate method used at

> Westside, I'd suggest you visit the site and look these articles up.

> Dave left no stone unturned.

>

> Rosemary

Again, the subject of box squats. I asked for any feedback on this

subject awhile back and received no response. Let me first say that I

am not looking at this from the aspect of developing power lifters

but from applying training to sports performance as I have seen a

number of claims regarding the benifits of box squats to sports

performance. For example, BFS claims that " Box Squats " are the most

beneficial to sports performance application. I read the above

article

and it was nothing more than glorified claims with no substantiating

research. The claim is it has " the added bonus of being able to

develop explosive strength " because " the box squat breaks the

eccentric/concentric chain " and " causes you to squat from a static

contraction to a dynamic concentric contraction " . I have always been

under the impression that when training for sports performance

(sprinting, jumping, etc) the development of this

eccentric/concentric

chain is critical, why break it? And how can you keep a static

contraction if you are breaking the eccentric/concentric chain?

The article also claims that box squats will " cause a great stretch

reflex out of the bottom of the squat " . How can you work with a

stretch reflex if you broke the eccentric/concentric chain?

I can see it having some benefit to the development of starting

strength if you sit down long enough to dissipate the stretch.

Basically, to me it looks like a method to keep people who like to

impress others in the gym with how much they can lift from cheating.

Am I missing something here?

Doug Schweigert

Bismarck ND USA