Thread: Thoughts on Ivan Djuric?

I recently started keeping up with his content on YouTube. This guy has apparently squatted literally every day for almost two consecutive years now.

That is immense dedication and highly respectable, but strikes me as less than ideal for his stated goal of chasing strength. Also seems like a subpar way to gain size, as well. Even if you worship the squat, it's no skin off the bar's nose to program rest and other exercises.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by air2fakie

I'm not familiar but I generally don't assume that content creators really do the things they promote on their videos - whether squatting every day, 30 day workout to gain 3" on your biceps, etc. That being said, you certainly can squat every day.

Only seen the ones from the past couple weeks, but he literally comments over footage of him going through his entire squat workout in each video.

I know it's not impossible, but seems inefficient and that you'll hit a low ceiling of potential going about it that way. I'm still in the <4 plate club though so I can't talk down on any of this stuff.

Originally Posted by air2fakie

Well it doesn't sound like a great (or fun) program to me, but if he seems to be someone whose legs/strength you'd like to emulate and he gives sound reasoning for whatever's in his videos, you could consider it. If he's actually doing a full squat workout every single day, it sounds like it'd be an unproductive amount of volume.

Oh I'm not at all interested in doing it myself. Honestly, while the dedication and mental toughness of that is impressive, he has kind of a lanky physique with somewhat slender legs, and I wouldn't expect someone would achieve a lot of quality size doing that much consecutive volume - so not looking to emulate him, but curious if the forum has observed success from this kind of thing, or has an opinion on the guy himself.

Ivan seems like an ok enough guy, but that programming is whack. Haven't watched him in several months, so I don't know if he's even testing maxes or measuring progression, or just grinding away until he feels that method stops working. He seems reflective on this method but it seems like an experiment more than a steady way of getting stronger.

It's fine.
Most decent weightlifter have squatted 12x a week for decades.