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The Best Way Of Increasing Your Ability To Squat

The Best Way Of Increasing Your Ability To Squat                   

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Tyler Hobson grew up in Anchorage, Alaska.  His experiences, education and his participation in competitive powerlifting led him to become the inventor of Pendulum Strength.  He now lives in Conroe, Texas and continues to design the world's finest exercise machines. Tyler explains, the Pendulum Squat Pro.

I made the Power Squat Pro to capture all the muscle stimulation of a free weight squat.

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squat6There are many athletes who have mastered the squat and are seemingly built to perform this exercise flawlessly. There are many more who have great difficulties due to bio-mechanical weaknesses, injuries from back and shoulder to hands.  There are others whose limb lengths are not conducive to the exercise.

Those athletes with issues must be closely monitored to illicit gains. The Pro Squat was made to address all the aforementioned problems and to maximize growth and strength.

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The patented floating yoke allows lifters of all limb lengths to position their bodies  in the same manner as the most bio-mechanically advantaged squatter.

As the yoke floats back and forth, tension is maintained on the targeted area and the 'core' is activated throughout the entire movement.

 

A unique benefit of the machine is the multiple loading positions. The lower weight horns have a strength curve that increase muscular tension as the lifter rises making the exercise more describe the imagedifficult towards the top of the movement. Training this way is similar to training with bands or chains. You will find the resistance is more appropriate for strength training as the design of the machine and its low horn position was made for what the bands and chains are trying to accomplish.

The upper weight horns, when loaded, have a strength curve that increases tension as the lifter lowers his body.  This increases stimulation to the hips and glutes.  Athletes who train in this manner get very strong in the low position which solves many of the concerns that athletes have in squatting.

If you evenly load the machine utilizing the upper and lower weight horns one strength curve comes on and the other drops away and the exercise becomes a barbell squat.

There is no doubt the Pendulum Squat Pro is the best way of increasing your ability to squat.  Is the Pendulum Squat Pro better than a free weight squat?

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If you ask those who have the device you are going to be very surprised with their answer.

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When you are in Conroe,Texas stop by and Get your ability to squat Stronger.


Comments

At Fowlerville High School in Michigan, we have 2 Power Squat Pros. We no longer have our athletes barbell squat. We feel we get all the advantages the barbell squat has to offer, while reducing 
 
or eliminating many of the problems athletes have with the exercise. All our athletes can squat to parallel or below regardless of their body structure, and do so with a load that will stimulate and produce strength and size gains. It is an outstanding tool.
Posted @ Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:56 AM by Scott Hays
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