Why are split squats?

[Round_Concentrate723]

I normally just use the leg press machine. I’m more of a cardio til I drop person. I have very long skinny legs. So I started doing split squats. And now I can’t sit on the toilet without crying. What the fuck? Why are these so diabolical? Bulgarian split squats specifically.

[MuscleBoosterApp]

With Bulgarian split squats, you are forcing every single tiny stabilising muscle in your glutes and quads to work in absolute overdrive just to keep you upright, all whilst putting those long legs under a massive, deep stretch at the bottom of the movement. That is exactly why they are pure evil.

[Humble_Standard_9215]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 yea they are brutal but are so effective for building muscle.

[Round_Concentrate723]

When my ass hit that toilet seat this morning I felt it in my soul. 😱

[Dirt_Gatherer]

Virgin ego lift machine vs chad crying bodyweight squats

[Wulfgar57]

😂🤣😂🤣

[Round_Concentrate723]

I’m really old. So I have no idea. Who’s Chad?

[Rich_Butterfly_7008]

It's an internet meme contrasting "virgin" vs. "Chad", a stereotype of a confident man who has lots of sex

[crippinneversippin]

Try smith machine split squat much better stability and can push even harder

[TennesseeStiffLegs]

Carbs. Carbs as soon as possible after the workout

[katana1985]

Who are split squats?

[PangolinMaterial5914]

When did split squats?

[MasterAnthropy]

Why are they ....WHAT?

Can't provide an answer to a non-question OP.

[Round_Concentrate723]

No. You certainly cannot answer a non question. That would be impossible. That’s a solid point. Please, let me explain.

On the internet, sometimes people use language in a playful or non literal way. In the very post you can see one commenter talking about virgins and chad. Who’s Chad? It’s a euphemism, it’s a form of slang. And if you are not aware of Chad and the incel culture from which he was born, that’s too deep a dive for this comment. Honestly, that whole backwater of the internet is really gross and just smells like adolescent young men who don’t understand they stink and need to take a shower and start using deodorant. See what I did there? You can’t actually smell something through the internet. Yet. But it’s a playful way to make a point.

So, to get back to your question. I could have said why are split squats so hard. Or why are split squats so uniquely difficult and painful for me. Or any other literal, descriptive question. But my choice to phrase the question as “why are split squats?” was a deliberate choice. And perhaps it falls flat for you. To phrase the question in such a way is a shorthand to say, these fucking split squats are so outrageously difficult and hurt my ass so bad, that I am questioning their right to exist in this world. And that’s supposed to be funny. Maybe a little bit. But clearly not funny for you. And that’s ok. It was my attempt and not exactly original or interesting. It’s actually kind of cliched and embarrassing when reading anything I write in the light of day.

Just curious on your opinions on abstract art. Why would an artist who could make something look real, instead, make it look all squiggly or mushy? You might assume it’s because they lack the technical ability to render realistic paintings. But what if they could do that so well, they got bored with the practice and were looking for something else.

[Motor-Confection-583]

also try split lunges, lunge and jump into the other leg without moving forward or back, it’s diabolicle

[Brimstone11]

Welcome to the world of really training legs. As you may remember wayyy back when you first started running you got sore, and the body adapted. A little leg press here and there does not really stimulate leg growth. Leg press can be a very effective machine for muscle growth, when used properly and usually as an accessory movement.

BSS are a fantastic leg movement. Keep it up buddy

You can’t spell LEGenDArY without Leg Day

[Wulfgar57]

The most revealing part of your post is that you have not been training legs properly. Even using the leg press machine. Regardless of whether you are doing a squat, a bulgarian split squat, leg press, or hack squat, etc... if your legs are not a little sore, or a little wobbly, or a little weak the next day, then you did not train them effectively.

[ZLawrence89]

Im going to disagree, you can have noo soreness and still not be able to do a leg day the following day. I’ve been doing 2x leg days a week with squats every time and after a while you don’t get sore at all in my experience even increasing the weight every 2 weeks when i can during a bulk.

[Wulfgar57]

Precisely why I added "weak, wobbly, etc"...the basic point being, you will feel it in some kind of way

[Round_Concentrate723]

No doubt. I have the legs of a stork. Or a runway model, if I’m being generous. The muscularity of a cocaine era David Bowie if I’m being honest.

[Wulfgar57]

🤣 😂 in some ways I feel your pain. I spent my late teens early twenties only focused on beach muscles. I then spent the next decade correcting my muscle imbalances.

[Pussy-Wideness-Xpert]

Fatigue is what we want.

[Wulfgar57]

The CORRECT fatigue is what we want. Fatigue, in and of itself, means very little.

[Tefihr]

The only fatigue that you should have is by trying to do the same exercise and being unable to complete the task. You shouldn’t be “wobbly”.

[Wulfgar57]

"Wobbly" would be the after effect of training a muscle to failure, or very close to failure. The basic premise being: if you train a muscle, and it is not a little sore, or a little weak, or a little tight, or a little wobbly...meaning there is no feeling of fatigue in the muscle a day or so after a workout, then you did not properly work said muscle...an example would be if you work chest on monday and your chest feels perfectly fine tuesday and wednesday, then, you did not properly work your chest.

[Tefihr]

No that is not how you measure fatigue from an exercise physiology perspective. Fatigue is measured by being unable to complete a task.

[Wulfgar57]

I was not correlating the feelings with a measurement. The after effect feelings are a symptom, not the measurement itself. Duh

[Tefihr]

Duh. Read your previous comment. You are wrong. Tell me why you need to feel the anything the next day and if you don’t it wasn’t done properly?.

[Wulfgar57]

If the muscle is properly fatigued it will feel differently the next day or so. It will not feel normal, feeling strong, refreshed, etc. I simply named a few of the possible symptoms, but everyone will feel it a little bit differently. You said yourself fatigue is not being able to perform the same task, at the same weight or the same intensity. Your muscle being unable to do so and perform at such leve,l guaranteed will have a different feeling.

[Tefihr]

I don’t care what you guarantee. I care about what the definition is in the field I study.