Look at the quadriceps of Chris Hoy (sprint track cyclist.) His quadriceps are clearly very well developed. Far more developed than 99% of people who do squats.
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As for the bodybuilders you mention, don’t forget they are on much more juice and calories than every one else, with the goal to build size.
You probably thoguht I meant long distance cyclists like tour de’ france specialists or something. Well Duh, I meant the kilo sprinters inside the velodrome at the olympics. Their Quadriceps are more developed than most people who do squats.
Cycling up hills - sprints, added mass to my quadriceps quicker than any weight training exercise I have ever done. By cycling, I dont mean going for a leisurely 5 mile ride, like what you are thinking of. I mean doing 200m sprints up steep hilss, for example.
And by the way, former French cyclinst, ‘Chris Bursford’, had 33inch thighs., which is bigger than most pro bodybuilders.
Also, Tom Platz, rode his bike 22 miles to the gym, before comencing his famous squat work outs. If cycling wqas so detrimental to mass on the quads, do you not think the greatest thighs in the history of bodybuilding would have omited the bike ride?
The Atlas stones stretch the hamstrings more than barbell deadlifts, because youyr fingers have to go to floor level, when lifting an Atlas stone. Despite being experianced in Barbell deadlifts, my hamstrings were sore, the first day after Ilifted Atlas stones. You have obvously not considered the length-tension relationship, especially with the hamstrings.
If you’re going to be rude, and suggest I have lost my mind, just because I have pointed out facts, (that my own training results have prooven, and my observations of other confirm again), then maybe you have not considered as much as I.
As for pro-bodybuilders not using typical ‘strong man’ training equipment, don’t you realize that typica strong man props are just not as widely available in commercial gyms. Not because they don’t work (as you imply) but because gym owners have to play safe and just work with what they know, e;g;, a barbell and some basic machines.
Truck pulling would build the quadriceps bigger than squats, but nobody is going to install a friggin truck in their gym are they?
Yes, Jonah Lomu, built his 33inch upper thighs by pulling a metal roller (those things used to flatten the grass on rugby pitches), and he use it, the way some one else would use a sled pull.
Don’t lecture me about Dorian Yates. I’m the one that friggin mentioned him in the first place.
I mentioned him because he built his thighs without squats (an I also mentioned why he couldn’t get comfortable with squats - because of a hip issuehe had) and you practically repeated to em, what I had allready said about him.
- Don’t get rude with me, about ‘loosing the mind’, just because YOU can’t see past the dam Barbell back squat.
And Yes, the best bodybuilders used the machine squats as muych asd what they used the barbell squat. Fact. Just don’t cry about it, because to you the barbell back squat is something holy.