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Holy, McIlroy is a beast. No wonder he drives it so far. Ground forces. What is that, 300lbs?

https://twitter.com/McIlroyRory/status/534974920355479552

http://instagram.com/p/vkytHPut40/?modal=true

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:-D

Although, Justin will not have as many back and knee issues later in life!

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Yikes, I would say that's closer to 350. Good for Rory - even in my college days when I was lifting quite a bit, I never flirted with those type of squat numbers.

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Although, Justin will not have as many back and knee issues later in life!

Seriously.  My back and knees hurt just from looking at Rory's picture!

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Any guesses as to the squats and correlation to his prodigious driving distance and accuracy?

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Any guesses as to the squats and correlation to his prodigious driving distance and accuracy?

36.65435%

roughly.

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Any guesses as to the squats and correlation to his prodigious driving distance and accuracy?

36.65435%

roughly.

Lol. I think it's too low. 38.49329%!!!!!

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You both lose credit for not using enough significant digits.

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Ha! Kudos to both Rory and even more so to Justin for having a true sense of humor! They are two guys that would be fun to have a beer with.


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Rory should look into doing deeper squats with a little less weight. There's good research to show that a 90 degree squat is pretty bad on the knees, a deeper bend is better.

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Rory should look into doing deeper squats with a little less weight. There's good research to show that a 90 degree squat is pretty bad on the knees, a deeper bend is better.

I'm not sure if there's some new research I'm not aware of but when I was a personal trainer we discouraged anyone from going past parallel.

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Rory should look into doing deeper squats with a little less weight. There's good research to show that a 90 degree squat is pretty bad on the knees, a deeper bend is better.

I'm not sure if there's some new research I'm not aware of but when I was a personal trainer we discouraged anyone from going past parallel.


My physical therapist would agree with you!  I used to do a lot of squats and have started back into it with light weights.  I have OE in my knees and do a little above parallel.

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Wonder if Rory deadlifts, too... there go the shoulders... but I'm sure he has a strength coach to prevent all that...

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Yikes, I would say that's closer to 350. Good for Rory - even in my college days when I was lifting quite a bit, I never flirted with those type of squat numbers.

Probably even higher than that...it looks closer to 385-390...sounds like a ton of weight but it is surprisingly achievable for someone that regularly does leg lifts.  Most people just forget to do anything other than chest and biceps when they are in the gym ;-)

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Probably even higher than that...it looks closer to 385-390...

If they're traditional plates its more like 500, but they look to be rubber so 265 is what I see. Not that it really matters.

The funniest part of it all for me was Rose's photo actually has the screw on bar collars attached.

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If they're traditional plates its more like 500, but they look to be rubber so 265 is what I see. Not that it really matters.

The funniest part of it all for me was Rose's photo actually has the screw on bar collars attached.

Yeah, those are rubber, so with bar, maybe 300.

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I'm not sure if there's some new research I'm not aware of but when I was a personal trainer we discouraged anyone from going past parallel.

[quote name="boogielicious" url="/t/78243/mcilroy-tweets-photos-of-himself-doing-squats-then-justin-rose-too-funny#post_1077342"] My physical therapist would agree with you!  I used to do a lot of squats and have started back into it with light weights.  I have OE in my knees and do a little above parallel. [/quote] Just one of the first links I found: http://www.biomechfit.com/2012/02/09/3-squatting-myths-that-refuse-to-die For me, once I started going all the way down, my knee pain went away.

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