I love doing squats. I'm not a real heavy sqauter, But I do think that tehy are a must for leg develoment. I was really surprised to learn that there have been some great pro's that never squated and had just incredible legs. I guess if you can get away without doing sqauts then more power to you. I unfortunatly am not one of those people. Without sqauts i would never have made the gains that I definately needed for total leg develoment.