Are Squats worth 3kg of quad mass??

[pavel]

@UKcheetah

My quads have a tendency to swell with squats, even at 5 reps.

During GPP I only did PC lifts, my legs became a lot more balanced, I was down at 77.5k and got a huge PR over an electronic 40m (4.51s).

Enter SPP and with the hamstring demands of top speed sprinting, and the MS phase to think about, I re-introduced full squats, 3x5, 2xweek and jump squats, 3x5 1xweek. I put on a KG a week since… straight on the quads. :mad:

So, is the overall strength stimulus of the squats worth the added quad

I’m tempted to drop squats to 4x3 or 3x3 1xweek, and add another lift that stresses the quads less, but doesn’t burn out the hammies for speed (clean? Snatch grip deads?).

Thoughts?

40m in 4.51? electronic? you are the fastes guy on the Earth! Even Ben Johnson ran only 4.67…
I would like to know your PR over 60m or 100m…