🏋🏻‍♀️Should you go ass to grass?

When building muscle it’s not always about how heavy you lift.

You want full range of movement, now that’s different to each individual, depending on injuries or structural limitations. If you are just tight like most people (ankles, hips, hamstrings, quads) that’s another story and adding more weight to the bar while only performing 1/4 or 1/2 squats will only make you tighter and can lead to imbalances.

When you squat the full range you are working the whole muscle group. Working on extra mobility/flexibility and using your only body weight or less weight to go all the way down. 

Charles Poliquin is a world renowned strength coach and states “not only do full squats keep you honest and encourage you to achieve functional mobility, they allow you to train for better structural balance throughout the body.”

So the key takeaway is practicing full range can be more beneficial than the weight on the bar, know that you are going to get more out of your training in the long term when you strip it back and focus on movement quality over load. From there you can start to increase your load and start building up!!