Dennis James was accompanied by his regular friends Milos Sarcev and Chris Cormier for episode 234 from the Menace Podcast, and this week they were accompanied by the 2025 Tampa Pro, and Texas Po winner, Jordan Hutchinson, to discuss the role of squats for developing the quads.
Hutchinson told the TMP panel that when boys reach a certain size, he advises them to “stop the core that barbell squats and front squats and smith squats pull and some weight on the hack squats.” Instead, he searches for leg movements that are more favorable for time under tension such as the leg press or leg extension.
The open competitor of the men, who has now qualified for the MR Olympia event from 2025, said he is following his own advice, and that is the whole evidence that many aspiring bodybuilders may need, given his recent success.
Chris Cormier agreed with Hutchinson’s approach. “The same as I keep trying to tell Milos,” he explained. Milos Sarcev replied that Hutchinson currently has some of the “best quads in the company”, but he wanted to ensure that the younger boys who listened understood the importance of the squat from his position. “If you are young, you (back barbell) squat, no doubt,” enthusiastic “the Spirit.” “At some point, when you get that basis, and size, okay, you don’t have to continue because you might end up a hip replacement,” he added. “But (then you have to continue) hack squats or pendulum squats, or v-squats or whatever, that is the core.”
Jordan Hutchinson rejects his legs to make his squats safer
“The leg press cannot be the core of your (quad) training,” Sarcev continued, who joked that a quad training was without any form of squat, let’s say, not male enough for him! Hutchinson said he agreed with Sarcev’s point ‘one hundred percent’.
The Olympia participant also assumed that during his recent Preps Hack Squats and Pendulum Squats he performed as his most important movements for the quads, but also shared that he also threw in other leg movements such as adductors, leg extensions and bend curls, so that they could play a role in the pre-axis of his legs. “So I don’t have to throw eight plates on the pendulum squat,” he explained, in an attempt to protect his joints. “Because I have to save my knees. I am only 29, I have years to go.”
To view the complete episode in which the boys discussed Hutchinson’s Olympia GamePlan in more detail, see the Masters Olympia and other bodybuilding -news below:
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