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Well the truth is the squat is a quad dominant movement (yes, there are the low bar squats etc but I've rarely seen athletes do low bar squats, personally at least).

In a sprint, which is a horizontal movement to begin with, the hamstrings and glutes play a much more important role. Then there's the structure thing. A guy made for sprinting isn't necessarily made for squatting. There's a bunch of stuff going on.

But the thing is - anything that you do that gets you STRONGER, ANYWHERE, assuming you have the correct movement mechanics, no mobility issues and a good agonist/antagonist balance - is also going to make you faster. At least it shouldn't make you slower, if anything.

That's why you have periodization for athletes - different phases, different exercises and different EXPRESSIONS of power and strength. Ultimately you want the non-specific strength and power exercises to carryover to the specific power and reactive "stuff" that you do.

Does anybody here has any experience with L-Carnitine? Especially for fat loss?

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There's so much to write about what Avishek said... but long story short - if you lack in muscle mass and in the power that muscle mass would give you (improving your relative strength) then you need to squat deep because that's the best muscle builder. You don't squat deep for specificity purposes,  you're just building a bigger engine.

When you do that you're obviously masking any explosiveness you've gained through the squat induced fatigue. You don't need to be a genius to figure that out.

And when you stop squatting you're basically eliminating that squatting fatigue and then you say "wow I don't squat and look how powerful I am now!" when in fact you're powerful because of the gains you made with the squat in the past, that are now displaying without that fatigue.

And since you're not squatting you're obviously going to lose squatting movement efficiency and then you're going to say "my squat has gone lower yet look at how much more explosive I am now, so then it must mean squatting was bad for my power".

Just use your brain a bit.

Have you tried in the SVJ to get your arms back, not just "under" you? And if you get your arms back, try turning the thumbs towards the sky (internally rotate). Then try the SVJ again and see how it feels.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYPrYYq3xjw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYPrYYq3xjw</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKw-lDZ-fRg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKw-lDZ-fRg</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jqJbc75Fy0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jqJbc75Fy0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEqdPAgbYqY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEqdPAgbYqY</a>

 

I hope that sign in the back is true...

It's the Avishek deadlift, but he did it with a depth drop as well.