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Originally Posted by i_go_to_rutgers
I'm not too sure but cardio is useless to a person trying to gain muscle. Think about it, if you run on the treadmill for about 25 minutes it's probably the same equivalent as doing a few sets of heavy squats. By the way, glad you brought up squats as that's probably one of the most important exercises you can do. If you look around the gym you'll see that not too many people actually do squats. I'm talking about the real squats too, the ones where you use the free bar instead of that machine squat where your range of motion is limited.
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For trying to gain mass, they are one of the most important, even if you're not trying to gain in the legs. Anything that fully engages the quad is going to produce the benefit, but the more you tax the muscle, the more it and the rest of your body will respond. The free squat is best, but even a hack squat on a power rack can help get the "juices" flowing, so to speak.