"2 times, maybe 3 times a week, depending on who and what you do". The Fridge now creating a link between who you are sleeping with and optimal squat frequency. We need to hear more about this revolutionary breakthrough.
Nice content guys. A lot of people make similar claims with sprinting, pointing out one genetic freak athlete who did/didn’t do things a certain way, then try to extrapolate that out to the average athlete. There’s only so much we can learn from outliers.
Keep teaching what works. People who follow the latest dumb idea will ignore sound reasoning while serious athletes will listen and apply what works. You give great advice, thanks.
"some people are grand when they drink and drive" is the most irish statement I've ever heard, close to my granddad telling me I don't need to wear my seatbelt because there's no gards in gurteen (he was drink driving)
43:50 - 44:00 "There are freaks that exist out there. Who have never trained, who are better than you, who are better than you will ever be ... without trying". :'( Hello darkness my old friend
The most commonly mentioned drawback mentioned when it comes to everyday (or high frequency) squatting is that you cannot recover as well as if you do 2x/3x week. But what if you just keep the volume the same? Won't you just have more reps in a more rested state if you distribute the volume throughout the entire week? If you're doing 7 sets 2x week, after set nr 3 your ability to adhere to whatever technique you're attempting will surely be more diminished than after a night of rest ( even if you squatted the day before)? Additional question: Is recoverability you often talk about referring to your ability to perform the movement, or more of a a muscle recovery issue? And at which point (in terms of per session volume) should you consider increasing your squat frequency? I'm just curious, as I would never consider lifting every day of the week, never mind squatting.
Just finished watching the whole video and I couldn't agree more with the logic used. Someone can play any Chess move for x position, but that doesn't make it the perfect move. The perfect move exists, regardless if someone knows about it or not, modeled by AlphaZero. So I find it cool how you guys are essentially doing the same thing, where the only difference are differences in variables (intensity, frequency, volume, recovery management, specificity, etc.). Meaning, you guys are getting closer and closer to the "perfect" way of increasing strength in the back squat (as you mentioned, just because an elite-level Meso squats everyday doesn't make it the best approach for gaining back squat strength). Thank you for the high quality content.
Ive never in my wildest dreams thought that i could train like clarence kennedy, he is like you guys said amongst the top off the elite weightlifters , I'm just a mere mortal back squating 130kg
A point about Clarence: is the way he squats, leaning over significantly more than most weightlifters, a valid technique that others of similar proportions could use to progress, or has it only worked for him since he’s the 1% of the 1%?
It is an accessory movement and needs to boost the lifts. You can make a general argument for ideal technique (training the same positions as Sn/C&J), but imo ultimately this boils down to transfer to the lifts and progressing leg strength. If squatting a certain way doesn't break you and makes the lifts go up, it need not apply to anyone else. On the other hand, if progressing the squat doesn't positively impact the workload you are able to do with Sn/C&J then there's a problem - you are not developing strength useful to the sport.
A common mistake people often make is they look at the little nuances that successful lifters (or really anyone successful) do in their training, when in reality what you should be doing is looking at the whole picture and seeing what all the successful lifters are doing the same. A slightly more forward angle in your squat won’t make a you a beast at squatting. One of the literal thousands of accessories that the Chinese do isn’t the secret key to snatching 180kg. Eating chicken and rice twice a week won’t make you an Olympian. You should be looking at what they’re all doing the same. They’re all squatting X times a week, they all do heavy pulls, they all do lots of technique work, etc etc etc. Those are the things that are important, and unsurprisingly it’s the basics. And just to answer your question specifically, as long as you are squatting properly and loading the correct muscles, your specific technique really doesn’t matter all that much. Squatting technique for squatting the absolute most weight and squatting technique for maximising your training and strength for weightlifting will both likely look completely different. That’s why powerlifters squat low bar and weightlifters squat high bar, each respectively being the aforementioned.
Can you make a video about the errors you guys made in your journey with weightlifting? I am new to weightlifting (snatch & c&j). Your videos are great! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Good video ... raises some further questions, but for more experienced/knowledgable people than me ... still don't get the thumbnail from the last one, but hey ... it's all good
I bench 4x, squat 2x and deadlift 2x each week (across four sessions). That’s very sustainable week to week and pretty common amongst good powerlifter I know. You might have one lift and one heavy deadlift session if recovery is an issue.
I know a sample size of just one person means nothing, and GOD made me a promise to give me 405, but I went from 205 * 2 to 405 from end of may to December 15 2020. There is some circumstances but he gave it to me while Squatting everyday and squatting most days two times a day and a maybe once or twice a week three times a day. I backed off after GOD answered and fasted and needed to heal my knee not an injury just annoying pain, but just an anecdote I don’t like the squat I want to get better clean and jerk and snatch
If you think about weightlifting, Gayle Hatch once commented on the fact that his lifters only squat twice a week in terms of the actual movements back squat and front squat, but they squat every day as a result of doing cleans and snatches. Kind of a different way of looking at it.
The great result of these videos is that it shows how many people follow others on RUclips like blind fools and have no understanding of programming, recovery, periodisation, load, intensity, frequency. You must both laugh a lot when you read some of the comments viewers make 😂
When you guys say things like 'squatting twice a week is most optimal' or 'benching three to four times a week is most optimal', does this include variations such as the front squat or overhead press or nah? Would squatting twice and front squatting once be good? Or would it be better to do one of each?
I think that any exercise that has a very similar pattern to the normal squat counts as a squat. So a front squat would count as a squat. Don't quote me in this tho.
When they say squat, that pretty much means the main squats (front and back), and the main variations (pauses, tempo squats etc). Pretty much the stuff that’s at the same overall load as your two main squats. However I wouldn’t include lighter variations such as overhead squats or single leg stuff for example within the ‘squat twice a week’ as they’re a lot lighter and the goal for those is different than the goal from heavy squatting. The same can probably be applied to bench but I don’t really know what bench press variations there are as I’m just a weightlifter.
I wonder at this point if Ivan agrees with them, that squating everyday isn't the best approach for his progress and if he will change his squat training. ... I'm still gonna squat everyday though. lol
I’ve met some actual freaks in my life. One of the lads at the gym said to me ‘yeah I started with a 280kg deadlift and now I’m lifting 380-400’ and yeah he’s 22 and a record holding super heavyweight in New Zealand 😂
You kind of brought this up, but is there research on schedules completely divorced from weeks/months/days even? Ex: Quad exercises tend to take 32.7 hrs with a 2.9 hr standard deviation before the athlete can match or exceed their previous session, while lower back exercises tend to take X time with a standard deviation of Y. Maybe not by muscle group, but maybe by lift? Idk what the research might find or if it's even possible to be that granular.
I know you guys think squatting twice a week is optimal, but does this include front and overhead squatting as well? In other words, if a lifter does back squats twice a week, but on alternate days does front and overhead squats with less than maximal weight in order to strengthen the catch positions in the clean and snatch, is that still too much? Like: Mondays and Thursdays: back squat; Tuesdays and Fridays: moderate front and overhead squats combined with technique work. Thanks!
@@sikastrength Can I squat to a single of 95% twice a week followed by doubles or triples of 85%. Then add a third day of higher pin squats for overload and some leg accessories work. is that too much for my CNS? I will deadlift every 14 days.
Hi, I'm quite new to fitness and strength training in general, could you elaborate as to why bench pressing 4 times a week is optimal but not squatting or dead lifting?
Because squats and especially deadlifting are much more taxing movements, so they give you a lot more stimulus even with lower frequencies and as you probably know, the higher the total stress on the system, the more adaptation can be expected.
I think you missed the mark a bit by saying "ivan isn't trying to get a big Squat, he's on a mental journey" to him he's not. He's a smart guy, but I believe that he truly believes squatting every day will get him to a 300kg squat. He's said that that's his goal multiple times. I love watching his content and hearing his thoughts and opinions on training, but his goal is DEFINITELY to get as big a squat a possible
I think they definitely know that his goal is still to squat heavy, but as you said, he’s a smart guy and knows what he’s doing, but he probably also knows squatting every day is not the best, or rather more efficient way to achieve that goal.
Any tips on keeping tension in legs during squats. I feel like I sometimes bottom out my squats as if I’m too mobile in WL shoes if that’s a thing. Idk sometimes my legs are jello
I assume you are completely bottoming out, but you don’t necessarily need to hit the absolute bottom. A lot of elites don’t squat to the absolute bottom as that can lead to losing tension. How deep can you go without feeling like you lose tension?
@@matthewmckee6289 it depends on the day..sometimes I can completely fold my legs no problems,other days my legs just turn off after the stretch reflex, but I got a few things to try….thank you for replying btw
Ok guys I'm dumb so pls explain me this: Is squatting 10 sets/day for 2 days (20 sets total) "better" than squatting 5 sets/day for 4 days (20 sets total)?
Ideally, divide your total weekly sets into two training days for squats, about two days apart to recover. That is the overall thing they're getting at and why squatting everyday isn't optimal because you don't recover well enough for how hard you have to push to increase your max.
Better is subjective, but let's just assume you mean for size and strength; no it probably isn't better. 10 sets over 2 days you will not have the best effort applied to 10 sets in a workout. Also, why 20 sets? That's up there and some of the higher end MRV and may not be at all required, you could progress just fine off 6-8 sets.
I have extensive experience in the gym of 3 months and can squat up to 100kg ATG (parallel) and I just started my second week of squatting daily and I like it therefore your video is invalid. Sorry.
Stating that daily squatting is "wrong" or the "worst way" is just as dogmatic as saying the opposite. It might be anecdotal evidence too, but I know a handful of people by now who were able to put on 30-50 kgs on their 1 rep maxes (training max with accumulated fatigue, not even the real 1rm) in 1 to 5 months, all of them intermediate lifters somewhere in the 140-180 kg range when they started doing this, and none of them snowflakes... Of course it's far from optimal in the long run, no doubt, but if for whatever reason you want to boost your max strength in a short amount of time, chances are it will work for many people
And this is where they'll stop making progress. That is how Squat Every Day works: you make what seems like a ton of progress short term, but then you just don't progress again. It's where Ivan is, not moving a single kilo in years. It's where Max Aita was. It's where every single person I've ever seen try this end up.
@VK sorry How can an intermediate lifter that can only squat 140-180 kg add 30-50 kgs in 1/2/3 months. If they were on a volume cycle doing high reps say 8 reps at 140kg then months later doing 2/3 reps at 170kg then suddenly they are lifting heavier loads. But nobody is adding 30-50 kgs on their 1 rep maxes within months UNLESS they start taking steroids and were clean before. And thus the incredible transformation is not due to squatting everyday. IT will NOT work for many people, it equals fatigue, injury and regression !!
@@fightinggod3168 Yeah, crazy gains like this can't go on forever (even more so at Max Aita level). Basically, you jump from one plateau to another - but the jump is ecstatic!
I don't know a single weightlifter who squats less than 3 times a week. And I know Olympians. My coach gives me 5 times a week now and I did get my greatest gains in this period
That sounds like a load of ****. No Olympic Weightlifters who are highly trained, possibly genetic gifted, and juiced up so they can stand that training actually squats 5 times a week! No natural normal lifter can squat 5 times a week and progress. Top level Oly lifters don't squat 5 times a week with all the Snatches & C&J's that they do and other work. I think your just a fan of Ivan. No Olympic Weightlifters or Power lifters as an example Squat or Deadlift 5 times a week!!
@@sikastrength Ahmed's coach is a crossfit coach. He knows Olympians (maybe Badminton players or Table Tennis players) and he has a coach. But THAT coach does not train any high level Oly lifters 😅
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"2 times, maybe 3 times a week, depending on who and what you do".
The Fridge now creating a link between who you are sleeping with and optimal squat frequency. We need to hear more about this revolutionary breakthrough.
hahahahahaha
Alternative title: Making a video every day about squatting every day - Day 2
I’d watch lol
Yess
Day 3 responding to comments and questions on "responding to squat everyday comments and questions"
@@BrandonWilliams-wf6hg it might end up being that as we'll definitely have a few people who always miss the point
Lol damn that’s funny. It really is what people feels is intuitive to squatting and getting better.
This ivon evon sounds like a cool guy
I wish I knew him...
Nice content guys. A lot of people make similar claims with sprinting, pointing out one genetic freak athlete who did/didn’t do things a certain way, then try to extrapolate that out to the average athlete. There’s only so much we can learn from outliers.
Keep teaching what works. People who follow the latest dumb idea will ignore sound reasoning while serious athletes will listen and apply what works. You give great advice, thanks.
thank you very much for your kind words!
"some people are grand when they drink and drive" is the most irish statement I've ever heard, close to my granddad telling me I don't need to wear my seatbelt because there's no gards in gurteen (he was drink driving)
43:50 - 44:00 "There are freaks that exist out there. Who have never trained, who are better than you, who are better than you will ever be ... without trying". :'( Hello darkness my old friend
10:45 rip Ivan's 100 bodyweight squat sets
The most commonly mentioned drawback mentioned when it comes to everyday (or high frequency) squatting is that you cannot recover as well as if you do 2x/3x week. But what if you just keep the volume the same? Won't you just have more reps in a more rested state if you distribute the volume throughout the entire week? If you're doing 7 sets 2x week, after set nr 3 your ability to adhere to whatever technique you're attempting will surely be more diminished than after a night of rest ( even if you squatted the day before)? Additional question: Is recoverability you often talk about referring to your ability to perform the movement, or more of a a muscle recovery issue? And at which point (in terms of per session volume) should you consider increasing your squat frequency? I'm just curious, as I would never consider lifting every day of the week, never mind squatting.
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Just finished watching the whole video and I couldn't agree more with the logic used. Someone can play any Chess move for x position, but that doesn't make it the perfect move. The perfect move exists, regardless if someone knows about it or not, modeled by AlphaZero. So I find it cool how you guys are essentially doing the same thing, where the only difference are differences in variables (intensity, frequency, volume, recovery management, specificity, etc.). Meaning, you guys are getting closer and closer to the "perfect" way of increasing strength in the back squat (as you mentioned, just because an elite-level Meso squats everyday doesn't make it the best approach for gaining back squat strength).
Thank you for the high quality content.
that's a great way of putting it!
Ive never in my wildest dreams thought that i could train like clarence kennedy, he is like you guys said amongst the top off the elite weightlifters , I'm just a mere mortal back squating 130kg
Curls every day, bruh! 💪🏻
A point about Clarence: is the way he squats, leaning over significantly more than most weightlifters, a valid technique that others of similar proportions could use to progress, or has it only worked for him since he’s the 1% of the 1%?
It is an accessory movement and needs to boost the lifts.
You can make a general argument for ideal technique (training the same positions as Sn/C&J), but imo ultimately this boils down to transfer to the lifts and progressing leg strength. If squatting a certain way doesn't break you and makes the lifts go up, it need not apply to anyone else.
On the other hand, if progressing the squat doesn't positively impact the workload you are able to do with Sn/C&J then there's a problem - you are not developing strength useful to the sport.
A common mistake people often make is they look at the little nuances that successful lifters (or really anyone successful) do in their training, when in reality what you should be doing is looking at the whole picture and seeing what all the successful lifters are doing the same.
A slightly more forward angle in your squat won’t make a you a beast at squatting. One of the literal thousands of accessories that the Chinese do isn’t the secret key to snatching 180kg. Eating chicken and rice twice a week won’t make you an Olympian.
You should be looking at what they’re all doing the same. They’re all squatting X times a week, they all do heavy pulls, they all do lots of technique work, etc etc etc. Those are the things that are important, and unsurprisingly it’s the basics.
And just to answer your question specifically, as long as you are squatting properly and loading the correct muscles, your specific technique really doesn’t matter all that much.
Squatting technique for squatting the absolute most weight and squatting technique for maximising your training and strength for weightlifting will both likely look completely different. That’s why powerlifters squat low bar and weightlifters squat high bar, each respectively being the aforementioned.
Will the podcast with Ivan be on Spotify?
Can you make a video about the errors you guys made in your journey with weightlifting? I am new to weightlifting (snatch & c&j). Your videos are great! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I think they have a video on something similar. It's titled something like "10 things i wish i knew when i started weightlifting."
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fantastic content...thanks
HGH goes up with intensity, especially with squats!
Great video gents
Good video ... raises some further questions, but for more experienced/knowledgable people than me ... still don't get the thumbnail from the last one, but hey ... it's all good
I bench 4x, squat 2x and deadlift 2x each week (across four sessions). That’s very sustainable week to week and pretty common amongst good powerlifter I know. You might have one lift and one heavy deadlift session if recovery is an issue.
Yeah my second deadlift day is just paused deadlifts below the knee up to a heavyish single and go do back work after
@@thejourneyman8890 great call, I did pause deadlifts on my light day for a long time too. Excellent choice.
@@fazzolarijames yup! My bracing sucks ass so it's really helpful
@@thejourneyman8890 strict barbell rows can really help with bracing too. Focus on maintaining a 45 degree torso angle.
@@fazzolarijames I injured myself with bb rows so now I just do chest supported rows. Farmer carries for bracing
I know a sample size of just one person means nothing, and GOD made me a promise to give me 405, but I went from 205 * 2 to 405 from end of may to December 15 2020. There is some circumstances but he gave it to me while Squatting everyday and squatting most days two times a day and a maybe once or twice a week three times a day. I backed off after GOD answered and fasted and needed to heal my knee not an injury just annoying pain, but just an anecdote I don’t like the squat I want to get better clean and jerk and snatch
What rep ranges should one spend most time on when trying to increase the squat, mainly asking about fives, triples and doubles.
That's typically the range most people spend their time in but the masterclass does cover this 😁
If you think about weightlifting, Gayle Hatch once commented on the fact that his lifters only squat twice a week in terms of the actual movements back squat and front squat, but they squat every day as a result of doing cleans and snatches. Kind of a different way of looking at it.
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That's the dude who went shopping with juji right?
@@sikastrength yeh
09:38 oh sheeet it's the depth police
The great result of these videos is that it shows how many people follow others on RUclips like blind fools and have no understanding of programming, recovery, periodisation, load, intensity, frequency. You must both laugh a lot when you read some of the comments viewers make 😂
if we didn't laugh we'd cry!
When you guys say things like 'squatting twice a week is most optimal' or 'benching three to four times a week is most optimal', does this include variations such as the front squat or overhead press or nah? Would squatting twice and front squatting once be good? Or would it be better to do one of each?
I think that any exercise that has a very similar pattern to the normal squat counts as a squat. So a front squat would count as a squat. Don't quote me in this tho.
Yes
Does sitting on a toilet count as a squat day?
Neglecting the overhead squat!
When they say squat, that pretty much means the main squats (front and back), and the main variations (pauses, tempo squats etc). Pretty much the stuff that’s at the same overall load as your two main squats.
However I wouldn’t include lighter variations such as overhead squats or single leg stuff for example within the ‘squat twice a week’ as they’re a lot lighter and the goal for those is different than the goal from heavy squatting.
The same can probably be applied to bench but I don’t really know what bench press variations there are as I’m just a weightlifter.
God bless Inky
I wonder at this point if Ivan agrees with them, that squating everyday isn't the best approach for his progress and if he will change his squat training. ... I'm still gonna squat everyday though. lol
FML…
Clarence0 over here programming me squats most of the week hahaha. Exploding knees
Great. I hate squatting... but I would like to squat more weight. I'm delighted to NOT squat everyday. Will keep at two days per week.
I’ve met some actual freaks in my life. One of the lads at the gym said to me ‘yeah I started with a 280kg deadlift and now I’m lifting 380-400’ and yeah he’s 22 and a record holding super heavyweight in New Zealand 😂
Great content
Do I get to drink drive now like some of the genetic elite drink drivers? Or does it depend?
You kind of brought this up, but is there research on schedules completely divorced from weeks/months/days even? Ex: Quad exercises tend to take 32.7 hrs with a 2.9 hr standard deviation before the athlete can match or exceed their previous session, while lower back exercises tend to take X time with a standard deviation of Y. Maybe not by muscle group, but maybe by lift? Idk what the research might find or if it's even possible to be that granular.
Daire was closest with my surname. Eoin, not so much. 😂
Appreciate the insight to your approach to adding accessory movements, very helpful.
Fazz- o - la - ri
Say it with me guys 😆
I know you guys think squatting twice a week is optimal, but does this include front and overhead squatting as well? In other words, if a lifter does back squats twice a week, but on alternate days does front and overhead squats with less than maximal weight in order to strengthen the catch positions in the clean and snatch, is that still too much? Like: Mondays and Thursdays: back squat; Tuesdays and Fridays: moderate front and overhead squats combined with technique work. Thanks!
No so that's a little different, OHS would be outside this realm but front squats would be included for most lifters
@@sikastrength Can I squat to a single of 95% twice a week followed by doubles or triples of 85%. Then add a third day of higher pin squats for overload and some leg accessories work. is that too much for my CNS? I will deadlift every 14 days.
Have yall coached any strongmen competitors?
Hi, I'm quite new to fitness and strength training in general, could you elaborate as to why bench pressing 4 times a week is optimal but not squatting or dead lifting?
Because squats and especially deadlifting are much more taxing movements, so they give you a lot more stimulus even with lower frequencies and as you probably know, the higher the total stress on the system, the more adaptation can be expected.
what podcast is the one with ivan?
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Woohoo 50 min vid lesgo
I think you missed the mark a bit by saying "ivan isn't trying to get a big Squat, he's on a mental journey" to him he's not. He's a smart guy, but I believe that he truly believes squatting every day will get him to a 300kg squat. He's said that that's his goal multiple times. I love watching his content and hearing his thoughts and opinions on training, but his goal is DEFINITELY to get as big a squat a possible
maybe so, maybe so but ultimately it's more about squat everyday for everyone else and not Ivan
I think they definitely know that his goal is still to squat heavy, but as you said, he’s a smart guy and knows what he’s doing, but he probably also knows squatting every day is not the best, or rather more efficient way to achieve that goal.
Any tips on keeping tension in legs during squats. I feel like I sometimes bottom out my squats as if I’m too mobile in WL shoes if that’s a thing. Idk sometimes my legs are jello
You ever do pause squats? Like where you pause with tension about a quarter inch from the bottom of where you would normally go?
lower back and hip control plus a controlled tempo from the start of the squat is what you need
I assume you are completely bottoming out, but you don’t necessarily need to hit the absolute bottom. A lot of elites don’t squat to the absolute bottom as that can lead to losing tension.
How deep can you go without feeling like you lose tension?
@@matthewmckee6289 it depends on the day..sometimes I can completely fold my legs no problems,other days my legs just turn off after the stretch reflex, but I got a few things to try….thank you for replying btw
What about squating every other day
Y'all Clarence isn't natty he said so himself. You can't train like him
You can, just tak gear lol
Ok guys I'm dumb so pls explain me this:
Is squatting 10 sets/day for 2 days (20 sets total) "better" than squatting 5 sets/day for 4 days (20 sets total)?
Ideally, divide your total weekly sets into two training days for squats, about two days apart to recover. That is the overall thing they're getting at and why squatting everyday isn't optimal because you don't recover well enough for how hard you have to push to increase your max.
Better is subjective, but let's just assume you mean for size and strength; no it probably isn't better. 10 sets over 2 days you will not have the best effort applied to 10 sets in a workout. Also, why 20 sets? That's up there and some of the higher end MRV and may not be at all required, you could progress just fine off 6-8 sets.
@@sweetcheex do you mean that 6-8 sets per week are good enough?
How can Clarence squat 5 times a week and manage to squat so much?
Special supplements
they talk about this specific question @ 33:00
Please add at least the autogenerated subtitles for non english audience like me
we'll check it out!
I started squatting too much and regressed. Don’t do it.
I have extensive experience in the gym of 3 months and can squat up to 100kg ATG (parallel) and I just started my second week of squatting daily and I like it therefore your video is invalid. Sorry.
Welp what do you have to say for yourself sika
You had me in the first half, hahaha
Stating that daily squatting is "wrong" or the "worst way" is just as dogmatic as saying the opposite. It might be anecdotal evidence too, but I know a handful of people by now who were able to put on 30-50 kgs on their 1 rep maxes (training max with accumulated fatigue, not even the real 1rm) in 1 to 5 months, all of them intermediate lifters somewhere in the 140-180 kg range when they started doing this, and none of them snowflakes... Of course it's far from optimal in the long run, no doubt, but if for whatever reason you want to boost your max strength in a short amount of time, chances are it will work for many people
And this is where they'll stop making progress. That is how Squat Every Day works: you make what seems like a ton of progress short term, but then you just don't progress again. It's where Ivan is, not moving a single kilo in years. It's where Max Aita was. It's where every single person I've ever seen try this end up.
@VK sorry How can an intermediate lifter that can only squat 140-180 kg add 30-50 kgs in 1/2/3 months. If they were on a volume cycle doing high reps say 8 reps at 140kg then months later doing 2/3 reps at 170kg then suddenly they are lifting heavier loads. But nobody is adding 30-50 kgs on their 1 rep maxes within months UNLESS they start taking steroids and were clean before. And thus the incredible transformation is not due to squatting everyday. IT will NOT work for many people, it equals fatigue, injury and regression !!
@@fightinggod3168 thanking you for getting it
thank you for also getting it
@@fightinggod3168 Yeah, crazy gains like this can't go on forever (even more so at Max Aita level). Basically, you jump from one plateau to another - but the jump is ecstatic!
I don't know a single weightlifter who squats less than 3 times a week. And I know Olympians. My coach gives me 5 times a week now and I did get my greatest gains in this period
I fear, you may have as we said in the video, entirely missed the point. We also know Olympians and that isn't the point.
Cool story.
@@sikastrength Significant burn here.
That sounds like a load of ****. No Olympic Weightlifters who are highly trained, possibly genetic gifted, and juiced up so they can stand that training actually squats 5 times a week!
No natural normal lifter can squat 5 times a week and progress. Top level Oly lifters don't squat 5 times a week with all the Snatches & C&J's that they do and other work. I think your just a fan of Ivan. No Olympic Weightlifters or Power lifters as an example Squat or Deadlift 5 times a week!!
@@sikastrength Ahmed's coach is a crossfit coach. He knows Olympians (maybe Badminton players or Table Tennis players) and he has a coach. But THAT coach does not train any high level Oly lifters 😅