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@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha Damn it Justus!

@smolboyi

3 жыл бұрын

😂

I squatted every day and my squat was shit, now I squat twice a week and my squat is doing much better. But thankfully I got off the squat island and saved all my family from these internet squat terrorists

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha it's tragic and I hope you can tell your story one day

Audio so much better in this video, keep it up lads

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😎☺️

I didnt squat everyday but there was a period of time where I just went to the gym everyday for about 2 months as I didnt have much going on. As the lads said, hyuge decrease in speed, felt very tired and ended up with mildly bad elbow tendinitis and slight knee tendinitis 0/10 would not recommend. Train smart

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

Good point on the elbow issues, often over looked is elbow pain from high bar squats.

I used a squat every day low volume low intensity program after I hadn't squatted in years to get my technique and speed back I done that for 3 weeks. Then I went 3 times a week now I'm back to 2 times a week per your suggestions. Feeling great now.

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

That's great to hear, for a short time to re learn the movement it's totally fine but moving back to lower frequency was definitely the smart move

@TheLiftingGamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@sikastrengthexactly, that was my reasoning so I could adapt to the movement again after a long layoff. But longterm with high intensity or volumes your knees would fall to bits 😂😂

Try telling that to Ivan Djuric. Dudes on day 554 and has been getting better and improving with some dips in performance here and there. He documents it every day and dives into this exact topic.

@channelorangehair

3 жыл бұрын

My biggest issue with the video is they are packaging squatting every day with bulgarian style training throughout most of the video. You dont have to train hard and heavy every day to SED. It takes more nuance and complicates but it still can be done and is a proven method for improving one's squat. I agree it is probably not THE most optimal way to train for powerlifters or weightlifters, but they arent giving SED its due in this video either.

@PhiyackYuh

2 жыл бұрын

Try prescribing that to general population and see if they don’t wreck themselves. You don’t know how body works. Its because it works for one person does not mean it will work for you and the rest of general population. Anecdotal at best! Why don’t you do it everyday then? Go heavy and fack ya joints up and report to us.

@JakeLewisReal

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhiyackYuh lol okay man 😂😂

@IsaacMorgan98

Жыл бұрын

To be honest man, he's over 1100 days in and hasn't progressed his squat in a good to years or something near there

@JakeLewisReal

Жыл бұрын

@@IsaacMorgan98 He's progressing, hitting PR's. Just recently hit a PR of 200KG x 2. He's doin fine, its much more of a mental and spiritual journey to squat every day.

I love the sofa set-up in these Sika Speaks videos

Just found ur channel. Very interesting video. What if u squat everyday but u only squat hard 2 x per week. The other days u just hit 70% technique work. Bulgarian squat everyday is just one way. Ur thoughts?

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

You'd probably end up with a sort of creeping fatigue where your not making or losing any gains but you're accumulation of fatigue is high but without time for adaption it's just negative fatigue.

@EugeneMatlin

3 жыл бұрын

Any changes to your opinion about this Ivan?

@EugeneMatlin

3 жыл бұрын

@The Inspector I am a big fan of his channel and have been watching since July when he was at 400 subs. But you cannot argue with the fact that Sika was right on this one...

@EugeneMatlin

3 жыл бұрын

@The Inspector Look at his about page... His goal is a 300kg back squat.

@Soccasteve

3 жыл бұрын

The guy just loves to squat, it’s so weird how much he enjoys squatting lol that’s the only reason he does it. He’s obsessed

So easy to watch, great work dudes

I see do squat everyday is bad idea so I will do twice a day

My experience with squatting everyday starting last November was exactly everything you said. Felt good to feel like I was working hard but at the end of it all my squat didn’t really improve despite all the effort I put in.

@bumpassb

2 жыл бұрын

I think it takes longer for your body to finally realize..."hey", "this guy isn't gonna stop." "We better get busy and adapt to this shit."

@silseh

2 жыл бұрын

@@bumpassb this makes no sense

I'm so glad I saw this video. I finally got a barbell for my garage (had a cable machine+leg press already) after being teased again and again about moving back on campus at college. Don't have a squat rack as of yet, so I've been doing light front squats, trying to relearn oly. movements, and deadlifting+OHP+rows. Decided that I'd deadlift every day and realized within a week why that was a shit idea.

I squat everyday and got to about 160kg and was stuck there for a long time twiddling my thumbs then work got in the way and I was only able to squat 2 times a week Monday and Thursday or Friday, just hit a 181kg back squat and 140 front squat for my 38th birthday. I did sessions emphasizing volume one day and sessions emphasizing intensity the other. I trained my front squat and back squat on the same day when I did volume for back squat I did intensity for for front squat and vice versa or some times intensity on the same days worked like a charm! I added 30kg to my front squat and 21kg to my back squat. Now I'm looking to break 200kg might have to check out your program so I don't have to think about it anymore.

@jiaxinglin4169

Жыл бұрын

How is your squat going?

Minimal effort gang right here! 💪🏿

I read one of those PDFs and thought it was a fun idea so I squatted every day for about 3 weeks and it left my body so compromised I got horribly sick for about a week straight. Up to that point I hadn’t been sick for at least 3 years and again haven’t since that point 2 years ago

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually very surprising the effect high intensity loads can have on your immune system, the most extreme being over training but yours is a good (read bad) micro example of another negative.

Max aita said during his training with the Bulgarian team that every morning he would walk like a penguin cause he couldn't bend his knees. I don't understand how such brutal training worked for them

@osunaarashisthirdroundcard8362

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember watching a video in which Aita talked about that. I suspect it worked for those Bulgarian lifters because: (i) they were the elite of the elite lifters and most likely had elite traits (genetics for recovery, response to such training stimuli etc.); (ii) they were just tough-as-nails rural farmboys from the poorest strata of society and would plough through any adversity to make a better life for themselves via elite sports (Aita said that kids from these areas were usually recruited heavily by the Bulgarian weightlifting system); (iii) they had been doing this type of training for many years and their bodies had adapted extensively to it, thus getting somewhat used to it (I'm sure growing up on farms would have helped greatly too);; (iv) they were most likely juiced out of their minds (at least up until the 80s) which greatly helps with recovery. I think Aita even cited some of the above as possible reasons himself, if I recall correctly.

@sol12498

3 жыл бұрын

steroids lol

If you don't train well enough, you won't create any adaptation.. but you will be able to train tomorrow. If you do train well enough and train well enough tomorrow, and the day after that, then you still won't allow yourself to adapt

So squat every day is a great way to get really good at doing the same reps for the same weight that you can currently do, but every day.

You guys need to read the t-nation article on squatting everyday it’s great

What is that squat program you recommended in this video? Sorry, language barrier 😅

It's a mindset !!!

The ginger bloke looks exactly like i feel. He could be my internal dialogue avatar

Any tips for quad tendonitis?

In you guys very educated opinion. What reps ranges/set amounts etc build legs? Not for strength...in this case just strictly size?

Greg Nuckols said his squat goes up by 100 pounds a month doing squat everyday and he only stopped doing it because he got bored breaking so many records so easily and he wanted to spend time playing basketball instead.

“Fuck I must be forcing some kind of adaptation ” lmfao

Does this apply to body weight squats as well? I’ve been squatting everyday for the past week to try to help my mobility. I can’t sit into a deep squat naturally, so I put a plate under my heels and sit in a squat to improve dorsiflection. I definitely notice a lot of knee pressure, especially when I stand out of the squat after sitting for a while. This hasn’t translated to any knee pain or joint pain but I’m worried it might after watching this video. I’m probably one of the least mobile people you’ve ever seen, stretches haven’t really been working for me but it seems like sitting in a deep squat a few times a day has been sliiiightly helping. If squatting everyday for my mobility isn’t safe for my knees, what would you recommend for mobility work?

@juanminglao3699

11 ай бұрын

you dont need to squat everyday for mobility. Just sits down in the position for 4 sets of 30 seconds and try to keep your back straight. Don't force depth. next to this do other stretches that target specific muscles rather than the movement

The most Irish soda I’ve ever seen. I tink my grand da had an anorak like that.

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

You meant sofa right, cause if there's a hidden can of soda here we want to know about it 😂

tbf im pretty untrained and im on week 4 of squatting everyday, decent strength gains and enjoying the movement, think i'll keep it up for a couple of months, kinda just force a linear progression and then get onto a proper program after a bit

Also what is that squat programme he keeps mentioning? I can't seem to catch it but they seem very complimentary of it. Thanks !

@bumpassb

2 жыл бұрын

The Bulgarian Method. Max Aita has some videos about it. Here is one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hYuDz49qnayrZqQ.html

@mattsalvatore3193

4 ай бұрын

Little bit late, but they're talking about their own program: RTA/Road To Anywhere.

This is probably just a specific case for myself, but I tried squatting every day a couple of months back, and it completely ruined my sleep. I was going to bed every night feeling really tired, and I would be able to quickly enter that state where I'm about to fall asleep, only for a random involuntary muscle jerk to occur, and I would be wide awake without being able to fall asleep until hours later; it was like my CNS was too jacked up to allow me to fall asleep or something. It was kinda stupid of me to have not drawn a correlation between squatting every day and my worsening sleep, but I just thought, if anything, the squats should be helping me get to sleep, and it had to be something else that was messing me up. After about two or three weeks, I was feeling completely drained and skipped squatting for a couple of days, and during those days, I slept like a rock lol In addition to that, there was the whole "feeling like you're going somewhere but not actually getting anywhere" thing going on, as well as the knee pain, which as said in the video, would always miraculously disappear after some warmup. In any case, not a great experience and most likely won't be repeating it unless there comes a day when I feel like I'm sleeping too well lol

I can't understand the name of the squat program you recommend at the end, could you write it out for me?

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

The Sika Strength Road to Anywhere Squat Program

So, squat everyday is for conditioning, to maintain performance, not to improve number?

I've done 6 weeks of squating 90% plus every day twice this year and got 20-30 kg stronger each time. im a decade plus long personal trainer, yoga teacher, martial artist, rugby player and soon to be weight lifter so i'd say Im an outlier. Did get some patella tendon soreness but not much compared to rugby and easily mitigated. i had to improve my technique and control significantly out of necessity which helped all of my disciplines/performance values/competitions. it was quite worrisome knowing i had increased my likelihood of injury but the power/feeling was/is so amazing and im literally looking forward to doing it again in a month.

This is gold, thank you for the knowledge. I thought Clarence used to squat everyday? If I do squats just for a warm up is that okay?

@smolboyi

3 жыл бұрын

might as well warm up with more specific movements, that seems smarter..

@getstrongby4038

3 жыл бұрын

He did, but got injured as a result

@smolboyi

3 жыл бұрын

@@getstrongby4038 ahh

@war_josh1550

3 жыл бұрын

@@getstrongby4038 it wasn't the squats that injured him. He said himself that olympic weightlifting eleven times per week injured his knees, not the squats. He actually said the squats were somewhat therapeutic

Russell Orhii is the only person who I heard talking about doing squat every day successfully and he's a genetic freak world record holder and world champion. I think squat every day and the Bulgarian method are for 2 types of people the.0.001% of top tier athletes and gear heads . The rate of attrition in the Bulgarian method was extremely high and the athletes who were in the programme were all in super elite class to start off with and they were full time athletes who lived on site and were juiced. Also the whole Bulgarian system was a cycle based on winning gold medals in the Olympics so they only needed 1 lifter in each weight class to peak for qualifying and the games . If he was finished as an athlete after the Olympics then so be it the system had another lifter waiting to replace him . So I don't see where the compulsion to squat every day comes from. No one ever talks about deadlift every day because you'd be fried in no time or bench every day. I'm purely talking from a novice powerlifting point of view

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good point, absolutely no one talks about bench or deadlift every day! People can almost intuitively tell that it's bad but that sneaky little squat sneaks by 😂

@siddharthsehgal9552

3 жыл бұрын

I have seen a lot of powerlifters bench 4-5 times a week using a daily undulating performance method and recover from it, the thing is to be able to keep your ego in check and know when to hold back. But bench is different from squat, I tried a squat every day and by week 3 I was done, no knee issues but I just felt so weak and tired. Took a couple of weeks off and didn’t get stronger at all.

@jotr.9786

3 жыл бұрын

Really he's the only? ... clean your ear then. kzread.infovideos

What if you wanted to squat like 40% of your max 5 days a week to just practice form etc and heavier on 2 days a week?

I'd say old Micheál watches the youtube alright! 😉

@holmol9

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering were they talking about you!

Squatting everyday works. Can’t believe it’s like almost 10 years later and this thing is still a debate lol. I personally did it and went from 150kg to 230kg for a single in about 18 months. I did go through a period where I couldn’t walk comfortably (but I could run no problem, weird enough). I’m just getting back into working out, I walked into the gym to do 143kgx3 at 231lbs (not impressive but I’m on a 6-7 year layoff). After 3 months I’m at 150kgx3, had to do some conditioning to prep for 4-6 days/week of squats everyday. I have a sore knee (the back of my left knee) and tendinitis in my right hip. I do a lot of mobility work (I’m 29 now) to deal with it, other than that Im feeling strong and my strength is returning. Not saying everyone should squat everyday, I honestly feel it’s not for everyone, but try and see and know it comes with a cost but the if you persevere you’ll see it’s nothing intimidating. The hardest part about squatting everyday isn’t even the squatting, it’s finding the will and time to go and workout. When you aren’t chasing medals and have a family it can be a pain in the ass, but that’s about it.

@getstrongby4038

3 жыл бұрын

Theres just no point though, do something else lol

@Vk-du3ci

3 жыл бұрын

@@getstrongby4038 It's a passion

I did smolov for almost the entirety of my first year of college and my knees have since been and still are the whiniest little bitches ever.

what is the 8 week squat program they are talking about

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

If you go to sikastrength.com we have our Road To Anywhere Squat Program there 👌

Hello lads, I train 3 days week cos im an Adult Onset Athlete, a geeezer. Started weightlifting in my mid 30s, 38 now. So I train 3 times a week, and I squat 3 times a week. Am I doing "squat everyday"?

@joshuavd5194

3 жыл бұрын

no you are not doing squat every day, every day is 7 times a week.

@chim55

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuavd5194 Gracias. “Everyday junior” it is then

"if you're a real athlete" 🤣

what about bugenhagen making his way of 1max everyday?

@Hooberschmit1

3 жыл бұрын

He switches his movement like every week, plus gets paid to do non-strength training at work. A lot of the time he picks a movement that is novel and as such it is easy to progress rapidly. If you had not benched in 3 months, then decided to max every day for a week, then when you stalled switched to close grip then when you stalled, switched to incline, then when you stalled switched to overhead, then when you stalled switched to single arm dumbell... you are basically autoregulating by changing the movement, and you are still doing enough muscle damage to make a lot of gains. It's an interesting idea, but it is really easy to get carried away and just pump out day after day of grindy shitty 1rms while your form gets worse and worse until you hurt yourself.

@Soccasteve

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah bugenhagen is a freak. He used to literally do maxes on the same lift everyday for weeks but now it seems like he rotated between two lifts and does each lift every other day. Also you’ve probably noticed but some movements just weren’t really suited for everyday maxing. But yeah it’s not a type of training I would recommend normal people to follow as it’s not possible to follow that type of routine for a long period of time.

What about Ivan Djuric :)?

Daire X T. Swift cover album when???

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

That's for his only fans.

What about Deadlift Everyday tho???

Trying to squat heavy everyday with extremely limited reps and volume definitely would not work. If you were you vary up the intensity and do plenty of accessories to counter the imbalances then thats a completely different type of squat everyday. Something that Ivan Djuric is documenting rn as an example.

How about squatting sub maximally every day for a few months and then when you go back to a normal program, it'll (psycologically) feel like a piece of piss? I'd say it has some benefits in that it'll toughen you up?

I was completely with it until 10:20 with the catch 22 ... " if you do enough volume to recover you won't be recovered ... if you do enough volume to be recovered for the next day, you won't have done enough volume to be recovered" ??? ... I'm lost lol someone please help !

Isint squat every day is ment for neural adaptation more I don’t think Bulgarian method is much disruptive for muscule tisiue

i did it and my knee hurts now. I'll do 2 times a week now i'm sorry.

Not that it proves anything, but didn´t Clarence squat everyday even when he was a young lad before he went on that suspicious bulk from 90-100 kg

@sikastrength

3 жыл бұрын

He sure did AND it's left near permanent damage to both knees to this day.

@sergiotl7378

3 жыл бұрын

@@sikastrength Clarence himself stated in the comment section of your video on 5x5 that oly lifting 11 times a week destroyed his knees, not squatting. He even said that squatting was somewhat therapeutic. I don't know if squatting that heavy with that volume that frequently can be good or even tolerable for a human being (thing that Clarence is not), but maybe something along the lines of the Squat Everyday book by Matt Perryman (squat to a heavy single, which will be your training max for that day, and then maybe do a few backoff set) could be a good approach.

I did 6x5/5x5 front or back squat + 2 hour weightlifting session everyday for like 3 years and ended up with chronic pattelar/quad tendinopathy which truly changed my life. Not recommend.

I squatted every training day for like 6 months. PR went up... 10kg maybe? not worth

I had the best results squating everyday ...

@getstrongby4038

3 жыл бұрын

Best results for what?

@jotr.9786

3 жыл бұрын

@@getstrongby4038 for squats

@getstrongby4038

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't leave much room for anything else though

@jotr.9786

3 жыл бұрын

@@getstrongby4038 kind of, yes

@getstrongby4038

3 жыл бұрын

@@jotr.9786 seems like everything else has to take a back seat though, only reason I can see for that is if your squat is seriously lacking compared to other lifts

ive done squat everyday before years ago. nothing wrong with it, I got strong real fast. I dont do it anymore because I dont have the free time like I did in my younger days

Ivan Djuric is making it work

@war_josh1550

3 жыл бұрын

I admire Ivan and his work, but lets be honest, the progress has been pretty minimal

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the real point is that weightlifting is NOT something we should do regulary. That is why people respond so much better to bodyweight training/calistenics even when doing it regulary/high volume. The more natural a movement feels the more volume you can tolerate. A heavy bb squat is never a natural movement. Hiking a very steep mountain (a lot of step ups) is a natural movement. Bench press is never a natural movement. Push ups definitely are. For example I inreased my 5rm squat even with no i mean NO bb squating for 1 month. But i did lots of single leg work (weighted step ups, lunges, jumps,..)

@getstrongby4038

3 жыл бұрын

No

@Sealed_Chamber

3 жыл бұрын

@@getstrongby4038 Can you elaborate further perhaps? Such elaboration would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Very bad video completely biased. They are trying to sound smart by using technical terms.

@Sealed_Chamber

3 жыл бұрын

How dare you.