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455: Building Legs with Squats – More About the Depth or More About the Weight or Depends

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  So unlike many people who just blindly accept that they should always be striving for deeper squats, I am just always striving to understand what happens at different depths and also trying different variations – all with the goal of trying to find movements I can do safely and with sufficient range of motion to get the muscle development I want. This research study is along those lines – and it’s on women! John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22797000 .  http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/455_-_final.mp3

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424: Revisiting “Can You Shape a Muscle?” Once Again

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The debate on whether or not you can shape a muscle seems to be dead for most people, but I keep it alive and so do researchers of articles like in today’s study reviewed on the show. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25811947 .  http://traffic.libsyn.com/appliedmusclescience/424_-_final.mp3

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376: Squat and Leg Press – Should You go Deep?

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Is squatting high grounds to cry and should we all squat deep? That is the question we tackle in both research and follow-up discussion on today’s episode. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Abstract/2000/08000/Comparative_Effects_of_Deep_Versus_Shallow_Squat.1.aspx .

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