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Originally Posted by nancysmithwp
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?
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If you can't go below parallel with the higher weight because your back is losing its arch then I would say to drop the weight, or maybe do one set with the higher weight and reduced range of motion and the other sets with a lower weight and full range of motion.
If you can't go below parallel because you somehow sense that if you go lower you won't get back up then assuming it is safe for you to fail a squat then I would say put on the heavier weight, go all the way down and see what happens.