My First Real Squat
July 7, 2008
Stan McQuay, IFBB pro recalls how he became familiar with his first “real squat.”
“Back in ‘96, I remember dong a set of squats with 315 pounds. When I finished my last rep, I looked around the gym proudly and noticed that biggest guy in the room was staring at me. He shouted out: “Now let’s see you do a real squat!” I had no idea what he was talking about. He showed me that a ‘real’ squat meant bringing you ass to the floor. I had to take off two plates just to do one set of real squats that day.”
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April 17, 2008
Your body is very smart. After all human body has taken a long time to get where it is. Your body adjusts its metabolic rate to survive on what it consumes and it detects any major drop in calorie intake to burn even less calories. If you adopt a low calorie diet of 2,000 calories per day, your metabolism adjusts itself to function by using 2,000 calories per day. If you go into a low calorie starvation diet of let say 1,000 calories per day then your metabolism will again adjust itself to burn only 1,000 calories per day. In short, your body fat stays where it was and where you don’t want it to be.
