McIlroy tweets photos of himself doing squats, then Justin Rose too - Funny

[InTheRough]

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.

the fact that they are rubber doesnt really mean anything...they are probably 45 lbs each plus the one on the ends which is probably 35 lbs.  they are rubber so you can drop them during certain lifts without destroying the floor and they are about twice as thick as an iron plate because rubber isnt as heavy....still a decent amount of weight either way though

[bkuehn1952]

My opinion of Justin Rose, already high, just increased a bit.

[boogielicious]

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Originally Posted by newtogolf

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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Originally Posted by boogielicious

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.

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.

Thanks.  I am going to copy this post to the Fitness Section.

[newtogolf]

the fact that they are rubber doesnt really mean anything...they are probably 45 lbs each plus the one on the ends which is probably 35 lbs.  they are rubber so you can drop them during certain lifts without destroying the floor and they are about twice as thick as an iron plate because rubber isnt as heavy....still a decent amount of weight either way though

It does matter if they are rubber or iron because our only basis for estimating the weight is visual plate size.  Rubber plates are typically thicker than iron plates of same weight, a bar loaded comparable sized iron plates would have weighed over 500.

[colin007]

From my visual estimate (we have rubber weights at my gym) going from innermost to out, they go 45, 35, 25. I don't know how much the smallest ones of different size on the end are. My guess is that they're 25s, which would make 305 total, very respectable for a dude his size.