One-fourth of the distance you would go in a full-depth squat. How it looks will vary depending on an individual's build.
__________________ Lisa Holladay, CSCS
Exercise and nutrition play equal roles, and the motivation and discipline to stay consistent are really the glue that holds a program together.
--Alan Aragon
I'm asking because I used my Squat 1RM and it felt way too easy. does this mean I am not going deep enough? Or is this how it's meant to feel?
In a quarter squat you can use a whole lot of weight. It's amazing how much, lol. That's why it's so funny to hear guys brag about how much they squat and then see them do it and find out it's only a quarter or half squat.
A quarter squat is used to get you used to backing out of the rack with a whole lot more weight than you can actually squat, yet.
__________________ Lisa Holladay, CSCS
Exercise and nutrition play equal roles, and the motivation and discipline to stay consistent are really the glue that holds a program together.
--Alan Aragon
Can one do full atg squats, come up to parallel, back to atg and then all the way up for any added value?
Sure. You'd have to reduce the load in that case, but 1 1/4 reps are prescribed in some programs. Ian King was a fan of 1 1/4 or 1 1/3 reps. Pausing at the bottom of the squat is similar. I haven't done squats like that in a long time, but when I first learned to squat below parallel, the pause squat and 1 1/4 reps were part of what helped me learn a full squat. You don't see them in many new programs. I'm not really sure why.
__________________ Lisa Holladay, CSCS
Exercise and nutrition play equal roles, and the motivation and discipline to stay consistent are really the glue that holds a program together.
--Alan Aragon
Just curious why are you using quarter squats? Your strength levels aren't very high, you should be adding weight pretty quickly with a standard squat.
How deep to go on quarter squats?
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