305pelusa
Level 6 Valued Member
Well said. I think fitness writers will always create their own examples to prove their own points.To me this looks just like the often mentioned guy who comes into the gym, does his sets couple of sets of bench, curl and abs with the same weight and leaves...and never making progress
While I agree Easy Strength is an excellent program, I think it should be used with the variability Dan intended (some sets harder, some easy singles, etc). If you run the Easy Strength template with KBs, and literally use the same weights every day... isn't that the definition of insanity?
Let's move this in another direction.
Do you think goblet squats in the warmup, the lunge part of the TGU, the kind of half squat in the bent press (I have to get down almost to 90° for a BnP), rucking & running (especially running is more quad dominant) and the (compared to the swing and conventional DL) increased utilisation of the quads in the snatch and sumo DL are enough to balance the leg (keeping the right balance between posterior and anterior chain)?
Depends what you mean by balance. I don't think you'll get injured, but you're certainly de-training the quads compared to your glutes and hamstrings.
Every movement you mentioned trains the hamstrings and glutes more. And aside from the Goblets (which are just a warm-up), none of them have full knee ROM anyways.
I don't think it's a bad idea to have an actual heavy deep knee bend movement 1-2 times a week (I don't think you need it daily though). Then again, I'm not a minimalist so I have a different viewpoint in that sense.