What's up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, Athleanx.com. Today I want to
show you how to grow bigger quads fast. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
You understand that if you do this every single video,
it's no longer an interruptions, it's actually part of the video.
Well, you're welcome for me being here. Can I talk about quads here, please?
Well you can't talk about quads without talking about the King of Quads.
I'm going to mention the king, Tom Plats is the Kinde.
No, no, no, no, no. Not Tom Plats. Jesse Laico. Run it.
You didn't just seriously bring the just the Jesse intro back?
Of course, I did. It's 2020, I got to bring the intro back.
2020 is a shit year and that's a shit into. Damn.
Listen, I'm going to talk about the squat, though. I'm going to show you
how squatting differently than you are right now is actually where the real secret lies
to building up your quads faster. So, if you want to see that me and Jesse at the squat rack.
Wait Jeff, we're in the squat rack right now. It's just something I could say to
get us to the next part. Okay, here we are, the rack. This
is actually still Jesse, not Tom Platts, don't be confused. But I want you to notice one thing,
look at the width of his stance. Does it look anything like yours?
And it's actually pretty traditional feet outside of shoulder width. Go ahead and do a squat, Jesse.
Straight down and straight up. Now, the point of this is, if you squat this way all the time,
then what I'm suggesting you do is change it up. Because neurologically you're going
to benefit from this because the recruitment pattern that you've developed from this squat,
more time, is going to be much different than what I'm going to suggest you do next. And
that is narrow up your squat considerably. This is the Tom Platt style, a narrow stance,
squat. You put your feet in here and when you come down, a couple of things happen. First of all,
your range of motion on the squat increases a lot. Why? Instead of having your knees in this plane,
the frontal plane, when viewed from the side traveling outward, now with them narrow, they
have to travel in the sagittal plane, which means that you have to get lower through more of that
deeper hip flexion and of course at the ankles through more dorsiflexion. Well, if you don't have
the mobility through your ankles, you're going to get stopped about halfway down on this.
But the way around that is to simply put a couple of plates under your heels like this. By getting
into this position here of more point of flexion, we relieve some of that top end dorsiflexion range
of motion that we need. So now when we come down, we can comfortably get down to this position.
At this point, this is going to more favorably recruit the quads because, again,
we don't have that stretch that happens when the knees travel out on the adductors. Again,
changing and reprogramming the recruitment pattern at the bottom of the squat.
This is not something you're going to go do Max squat with, you're going to dramatically lighten
the weights, which brings me to the next point. If you really want to turn on the gas in terms of
increasing the size of your quads with focused hypertrophy work, don't just do this for a few
reps. Grind them out again Tom Platt style for 20 reps. A 20 rep quads set done with a narrow stance
is an absolute grinder. And the point of it is you don't just do it where the 20th rep is difficult
and you get tired on that 20th rep, you're going to likely get tired around the teens, 13,
14, 15th rep. You then rest, pause briefly and grind out another and rest, pause
briefly until you grind out your 20th rep. And the good news is, even if you're concerned
that you're going to lose strength because you're going to drop those weights, trust me, guys,
if you can better recruit your quads at the bottom of the lift, you're going--what are you doing?
Showing off my quads. Oh. You're going to be able to have
a stronger squat when you go back to traditional with squatting because you're going to have
the additional benefits of stronger quads at the bottom where we already know you have the
adductors, we already know you have the strength to drive you out of the bottom of the rep. So
that being said, guys, give it a try. Don't be afraid to change it up every once in a
while. Work this into your squat regimen and I promise. You guys, better games await you.
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Wait, Jeff, we're in the squat rack, shouldn't you be curling or something?
Wow, wow have you changed. I'm called Brolin, where's Josh Brolin?