I'd vote 100% on the side of learning / developing muscle activation.
In people that have never squatted before, we used to put down a box or medicine ball to help them remember depth, but they'd only tap it and be back up. In box squats, you actually sit back on it, which is a world of difference.
A proper westside box squat is a squat/deadlift assistance exercise. and shouldn't be confused with a proper squat.
Anymore on this?
Aren't box squats also to stop 'reversal pressure'' or whatever it is??
Could I get a few bits of wood, enough to be a few inches off the ground, and 'box squat' onto them? Or are they generally just so a bit below or above parallel
Starting to get worried about my knees/knees going over foot, so want to correct that..
Depending on the type of squat you do and you body shape but for most people your knees should be going over your foot when you squat correctly.
Yep, my knees do slightly go forward of foot, not to much but a bit. They probably go end of my toes when i squat low bar and wider stance because I sit back a bit more. Adamklam is right, keep knees inline with toes.
I guess it depends why you're doing box squats
As SPP for the raw squat or as a glute/hamstring builder
Both would require different form
I'd say box squats are good for learning how to squat on a box FFS.
What is this.
I don't see how overloading any exercise would be considered a waste of time. A benefit of box squatting is breaking up the eccentric/concentric chain and you'd get a similar training effect from squatting with regular form onto it. Maybe it's not the training effect you're after or what the most common training effect is. I suspect that squatting with vastly different form onto a box for a raw squatter would change the movement pattern too much. Don't for get that at Westside they box squat the way they do to bring up their multi-ply squat and not their raw squat.
Squat max effort day from KK - YouTube
(ok maybe Hercules curls and tricep kickbacks)
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