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Re: Box squats & board presses American in origin?

Posted By: Brad Reid (adsl-76-248-47-181.dsl.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net)
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007, @ 2:10 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Box squats & board presses American in origin? (Dr. Don Bell)

I don't recall Paul Anderson doing box squats so much as heavy partial squats where he stood in a hole dug into the ground and squatted ponderous weights, then later he did rack training and published a training manual later on in his life demonstrating his evolved techniques which included a strong interest in inverted training where he did pulls and presses and curls head facing down. Anderson believed it was the blood forced into the legs by gravity that allowed them to grow strong so quickly. So, he inverted other exercises to take advantage of his theory.

But, his most successful and his best-documented strength gains in the squat occurred early one... it gets questionable after a while as 100 pound increments were added time and again by various media, but up to say 800 or 900 pounds, I think there is pretty good evidence, reliable witnesses and photographic evidence.

What did he do early on? Anderson did a routine where he squatted over a period of many hours, perhaps all afternoon, with long breaks between sets, using a weight that he could handle very comfortably for sets of 2 or 3 reps. His legs got so strong on this program, it presented a problem as his back became a weakness and it couldn't keep up with his surging leg power, so he then segued into the heavy partials to strengthen his back so that it would be used to the heavy loads.

But, think about that squat routine... Is it not one of the earliest known approaches to what the Bulgarians would use so successfully decades later where they work the muscles over multiple workouts all day long?

Anderson must have been on to something.... use manageable weight loads, low reps, many sets, over many hours. Sounds like a good routine for a high school kid to experiment with one summer.

When I think of box squats, I think of George Frenn and the crowd he worked out with.

Cheers! Brad

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