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nancysmithwp · 03-24-2008, 07:06 PM

Today was my last Exercise A from Phase I, and I've been perusing the book in anticipation of Phase II. I notice where he says you should always increase your weight every time you go to the gym, and that women don't normally lift heavy enough.

So as I'm doing squats, I try to add 40 pounds to the bar, and can almost get to parallel, while with 30, I can go a bit below parallel like all the vids show. So am I right to stay lower to maintain form, or am I being too conservative? Maybe I'm just chickening out the last few inches. How do you judge when to increase?

03-24-2008, 07:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
nancysmithwp nancy Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 98 My Profile	How low do you go? Today was my last Exercise A from Phase I, and I've been perusing the book in anticipation of Phase II. I notice where he says you should always increase your weight every time you go to the gym, and that women don't normally lift heavy enough. So as I'm doing squats, I try to add 40 pounds to the bar, and can almost get to parallel, while with 30, I can go a bit below parallel like all the vids show. So am I right to stay lower to maintain form, or am I being too conservative? Maybe I'm just chickening out the last few inches. How do you judge when to increase? __________________ Nancy I'm not only pushing 50, I'm kicking it's but!