Jess Billitz

Every good exercise program involves doing squats at least once a week, but how are you supposed to know how much weight you should be able to squat? The answer is a bit complicated.

Determining how much weight you should squat for your weight depends on your age, gender, and obviously your body weight. But you also need to take into account what your fitness goals are when it comes to resistance training.

Below, we will overview some basic squat guidelines on how to perform the squat and the average squat weight for males and females.

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Any good exercise regimen strategically targets every muscle group in the body to develop strength and build power. When it comes to hitting your back muscles, your routine should include deadlifts, lat pulldowns or pullups, and some variation of a row. 

If you don’t know much about the different types of rows, you might be wondering whether it even makes a difference which type you decide to add to your program. It absolutely does!

Below, we’ll overview two of the more common row exercises, Pendlay rows and bent-over rows, and the cases for and against each of them. Check it out!

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