Interesting thing I read today

Eye Movement is connected to motion...

Looking up helps extension (with eyes not head)

Looking down helps flexion

Look up during bicep curls and down during bicep culrs, let me know if you noticed a difference... I can't wait to try out this eye movement thing. I tend to be skeptical about things that i have seen no scientific evidence of but this is free and easy to test.

RFESS

So in the strength and Conditioning world these days the current big firestorm is the question of how useful are squats? Some have made the argument that squats are a lower back exercise and not a leg exercise. Most people can come out of deep squats but it is the back that fails them when they start leaning forward. The big alternative is Rear Foot Elevated Split Squat. (RFESS) These are exactly as they sound you bring one foot back and keep one foot forward (split part) you put your back foot on a bench of elevation (Rear foot elevated part) and then squat. The crux of the argument is this:

If I can max lift 450lbs doing a regular squat, that means each leg is generating app 225 lbs of force. Well if it is true that the back is the weak point then maybe you have the leg strength to lift 500 lbs but your back will not allow you to. With a single leg squat (i.e. the RFESS) Now if you put 250 lbs on the bar your legs are getting their 500 lb work out but the back is only dealing with 250. Long Story short: This makes squats a quad/hamstring exercise again rather than a back workout.

Everyone is weighting in with their opinion and they all know a whole lot more than me but it is easy to see the logic in this. That being said I think squatting is a fundamental movement (everytime you sit down you squat, you don't just drop into your seat.) I am definitely going to experiment with the RFESS but I will keep the squats in our training too.