brewzkeez7
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What is a good amount to for this? Im 5'10 175, looking to see what I should be able to do.
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Fro Joe
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I would honestly avoid the hack squat machine. It's extremely hard on the knees. A ton of bodybuilders have blown out knees on this piece of equipment.
brewzkeez7
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im not a bodybuilder, just a regular guy that plays a little ball in my spare time.
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Then even more reason to avoid them.
Fro Joe
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I'm just using them as an example. I would avoid this exericise. Do weighted lunges instead. They will strentghen your core also. If you really want to do this exercise put your feet as far away from your body as the platform allows.
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I do these once a month. I dont go heavy I go deep and hit 15 reps per set. Depending on how I feel that day I may go lighter or heavier though. You have to listen to your body. Some movements feel good for one person and another may be in pain doing the same thing.
Not interested in doing barbell squats? I used to do hack squats and supersquat. I'm 5'8 190. Most I have done is about 270 (just the plates). I think I my 1rm is 360 on that machine. I am not a power lifter by any means. Anyway I switched over to barbell squats and am only up to 185 at the moment (working my form and doing the SL 5x5 program). I highly recommend going barbell squats if you can. It trains your whole body.
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Try barbell hack squats.
LngBallLvr
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If you are going to do them, don't let other people determine a "good amount" for you. Keep them safe and do a weight that you can dominate. This is not a good "benchmark" exercise.
Personally, I think people would be better off not paying to attention what others do and keeping their routing strict and safe and strive for improvement. But, if you insist on a benchmark use squats, not Hacks.
Personally, I think people would be better off not paying to attention what others do and keeping their routing strict and safe and strive for improvement. But, if you insist on a benchmark use squats, not Hacks.
Exactly. Do you.
Keep the knees inline with your feet and don't let them go past your toes. Otherwise, don't bother.
As mentioned, the lunge is essentially the same movement in regards to rotation of the femur relative to the knee and hip joints. Gravity and the unilateral nature of the lunge generally prohbit you from abusing yourself in the same sense that the hack machine would. But if you can keep your ego in check and be disciplined, the hack is generally fine.
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Don't be a *****...do zercher squats!
OTech
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I do those. I don't go quite that far down and it gives my knees hell. As was said before, barbell lunges are a great exercise. Really get the legs and core working.
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Pistols are all well and good, if you have perfect knees...and perfect ankles...and perfect feet. Oh yeah, and excellent hip flexibility and range of motion in your lower back. Your knees go WAY too far out over your feet on these and the stress is pretty extreme, even without substantial loading (with it being a bodyweight exercise primarily). Just do regular squats, or as another person pointed out barbell hack squats. Sometimes creativity is the enemy (i was not serious about doing zerchers, leave those to psychos).
tattt3
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couldnt agree more.............safer and better,all the way around