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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can do deadlifts safely you can do squats safely.  Start with low weight, sets of 10 reps, and work on the movement and only go up in weight slowly.

You have a Smith machine at home?

Don't use machines for the big leg lifts - they don't work any of the smaller or stabilizing muscles because they force you into a single movement path.  Better to do weighted lunges with dumbbells.  You could also do dumbbell cleans but they're not the same as squats.[/quote]

I don't have anything at home.  I have a decent fitness center where I work that has a leg press and Smith Machine.  No squat rack and actually I get to the gym so early that I'm always the only one there, so I have no one to spot me.  As a matter of fact, I don't even bench press.  They have a machine where you sit and push out.  As to your other comments...yes, I totally understand that machine exercises don't work the stabilizing muscles, but I didn't know if weighted lunges were still better than the machine exercises. Thanks[/quote]

You're not benching, and you're not squatting. And I'm guessing you're "deadlifting" on that wretched Smith machine too.

You do understand you're [i]not [/i]doing the StrongLifts routine, right? Get thee to a gym with barbells, and use the barbells.[/quote]

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