Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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15.03.2013 |
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Runners benefit from deep squats too
Strength training & endurance athletes
Intelligent endurance athletes already know this, which is why you'll find them more and more in gyms doing squats, front squats and split squats.
Strength athletes get more out of their exercises – we realise this sounds obvious – the more precisely they perform them. Complete movements stimulate more muscle fibres and result in more muscle growth than incomplete movements. So does this apply to runners too? This is the question that the sports scientists at St. Francis University set out to answer.
It's not such a strange question. Much research has been done on the effect of doing squats in different ways [at the bottom of the page we give a few examples], but most of the research has been done on strength athletes and not on runners.
Study
The subjects performed the squats once with heavy weights and messily, which meant they were unable to form a right angle with their knee joint [Partial] and they performed them once less with less weights and reasonably precisely, so that their knee joint did make a right angle [Parallel].
Results
So runners get more out of parallel squats than partial squats, the researchers conclude.
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