Squats: Are they REALLY necessary?

[belph]

Could be that hill sprints are better than weight training, and every single high-level athlete out there putting the work in the gym is wasting their time.

OR, you don't know how to lift and/or suck at life in general.

Its the former, clearly.

 

[mantis_fist]

Squats + Lunges = awesomeness

 

[rudyray]

I wouldn't say heavy squats are "necessary". But if you are competing in a sport, some form of the squating motion should be a part of the program.

Ppl love to talks squats because they are hard to do (and a lot of ppl pass on them). But if we are being honest, the exercise has been over rated for a long time. There are many other ways to stimulate the muscle groups. But if we squat, we can point fingers and laugh at all the non-hackers lol

 

[Chungungo]

If hill sprints fixed your problem my only hypothesis has been stated above, or, you lacked intramuscular endurance to a point you couldn't complete your gym routine, or you mentally couldn't complete it. Hill sprints are a good addition for conditioning, but to say it has done more for your gym routine really calls into question what you were doing in the gym in the first place. Do you have a template of it so we might be able to see specifically where you might have gotten this idea?

Anyway I have to say that is you don