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<blockquote data-quote="civpro" data-source="post: 610097" data-attributes="member: 7669">I may be wrong about this let me try and work this out in a rough manner.In a squat, with the legs as the moving/functional bodypart, the dead weight that it is bearing is the Upper Body + Whatever External Load.So in an unweighted or &quot;bodyweight&quot; squat, each leg is by default/normally carrying &quot;half&quot; the upper body.When you lift one leg into the air and make it a pistol squat, the working leg is now bearing more than it normally carries. What else does it now carry? First, the other &quot;half&quot; of the upper body. Second, the other leg. So the external load that the working leg has to carry is half bodyweight. Framing it as a two-legged squat, that's like barbell squatting your bodyweight.Again it's not completely exact, as the back muscles involved are not &quot;halved&quot; in a pistol squat the way the legs are. But a rough guide is: a 200 lbs man doing an unweighted pistol squat is working that leg about the same as it would be in a 200 lbs barbell squat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="civpro, post: 610097, member: 7669"] I may be wrong about this let me try and work this out in a rough manner. In a squat, with the legs as the moving/functional bodypart, the dead weight that it is bearing is the Upper Body + Whatever External Load. So in an unweighted or "bodyweight" squat, each leg is by default/normally carrying "half" the upper body. When you lift one leg into the air and make it a pistol squat, the working leg is now bearing more than it normally carries. What else does it now carry? First, the other "half" of the upper body. Second, the other leg. So the external load that the working leg has to carry is half bodyweight. Framing it as a two-legged squat, that's like barbell squatting your bodyweight. Again it's not completely exact, as the back muscles involved are not "halved" in a pistol squat the way the legs are. But a rough guide is: a 200 lbs man doing an unweighted pistol squat is working that leg about the same as it would be in a 200 lbs barbell squat. [/QUOTE]

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