Squats Are Good, Old School Makes You Great by Gregory Meyers
Fall of 1972 and as a young coach, right out of college, I get my first coaching job in a small, Indiana town. I walk into a weight room that was just like so many others back then. We had a multiple station Universal machine and a quad/ham Universal machine complete with a wrist roll attachment. The multi-station machine had the usual stations; bench press, leg press with adjustable seat, a dip station located on the back of the leg press, a military press, a pull up/chin up station, a lat pulldown and an adjustable sit up board, complete with ankle pads. A very impressive weight room for that day and age. No free weights yet because very few football coaches knew much about free weights outside of bench pressing and dumbbells. And certainly no football coaches were doing free weight squats. Squats racks were unheard of back then, at least in high school circles. Most of the programs being used back then wer ... Read more »