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Originally Posted by lewdog
WTF are you talking about??? Glute and hamstring activation is key to squatting and is greater at and below parallel. Doing half assed squats is barely working anything but the small muscles in/around your hips. You aren't doing shit for your quads/hams and you surely aren't building any athletic performance benefits.
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It's how I've been taught to do squats by trainers and its tougher for me to get back up by stopping at parallel rather than going below. When I go below parallel it feels like I'm cheating, kinda like bouncing the bar off your chest when benching.