The Squat: Good Exercise Gone Bad?

Written on December 3, 2009 at 6:16 am, by Eric Cressey

A few weeks ago a video of strength coach Mike Boyle presenting at a seminar hit the Internet, and boy did it piss some people off. Why? Just take a look at this quote from Boyle:

“This is going to be the hardest thing for people to accept. The muscle-head crowd, the T-Muscle crowd…they’re gonna be like, ‘Mike you’re saying don’t do squats any more.’ Yes, I’m saying don’t do conventional squats any more.”  I watched the clip again. No more squatting? But isn’t it the king of lower body exercises? Just what the hell was going on?

So I called Boyle to get his thoughts. Then, because I wanted to hear other points of view, I called Dave Tate, Christian Thibaudeau, and Eric Cressey.

Click here to read more…

2 Responses to “The Squat: Good Exercise Gone Bad?”

1. Jeff Says:
   December 8th, 2009 at 11:02 am

   Eric,

   My son is a hockey player and I was wondering what exercises he could do to help with hips so as I read you mentioned that hockey players tend to have bad hips.

   Thanks

2. John Says:
   June 16th, 2011 at 1:08 pm

   There is a lot of defence of the squat in the article and rightly so. It is a great exercise. I really do not know what the figures are but I bet there are less people hurt by the squat that getting out of bed or coming down the stairs in the morning. The squat is more than an exercise it is a way of life if you training hardcore with weights.
   Stay Well Stay Happy
   John

Leave a Reply

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

Security Code: