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Squat vs High Step

bicep Posts: 315 Joined: 2001/01/26	2005/11/08, 06:17 PM I`m just sitting at work, waiting for my night school class to start, browsing through the net... I came across an article on bodybuilding.com (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/md44.htm) that talks about bulgarian leg training that doesn`t involve squatting instead to use high-step. what are your thoughts on that ? i pretty sure some of you are familiar with this training.
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2005/11/08, 11:39 PM Im fairly familiar with bulgarian powerlifting as well as olympic lifting. Much of the best literature is based on either the russian or bulgarian system. And im pretty certain every bulgarian program I have ever seen involved some form of squats... I could be wrong. But im pretty sure that most of them rotated squats in. Gator would be a better authority on that though... I know the soviets didn't emphasize squats unless an olympic lifter was weak with leg development. However, what I do notice in the article, is that not only does it lack structure, but it lacks concrete evidence as well as theory. I'm not dissing the step up, only the article. I follow a westside split, but always include some form of unilateral training, ala Joe DeFranco's system. However, I do squats BEFORE step ups, just like DeFranco trains his athletes. While I feel that unilateral development is very important, I don't favor dropping squats in speculation. -------------- The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~~~Hunter S. Thompson If you smoke or don’t wear your seatbelt, please don’t tell me the deadlift is dangerous.
retrofish Posts: 118 Joined: 2005/06/20	2005/11/09, 12:18 PM I'm always skeptical when I see something that claims to 'revolutionize' weightlifting. I am certainly no expert but I agree with wrestler, I like to perform unilaterial exercises after compound exercises. If this was actually true, wouldnt that imply that heavy dumbell presses would be a better exercise than bench press for similar reasons? I'll wait for someone more knowlegeable to respond.