The Daily Squat Challenge, How your body feels is a lie
Posted Aug 01 2011 12:00am
Everybody loves the weekend. For me the weekend is all about eating meat and lifting heavy stuff. Now with the Rugby World Cup in full swing the testosterone levels of my weekends just got higher.
It's hard to beat a day of lifting, meat-ing, and watching international rugby.
Watching these athletes is not just entertaining, it serves as motivation. Watching 230lbs men with abs sprinting and tackling for an hour and twenty minutes is great motivation. Something we all need if we are truly pushing our body's to the limit.
In my case I have taken extreme measures to get bigger and stronger. I am training seven days a week and starting every session with hard and heavy squats. So the daily squat challenge, as I call it, consists of squatting every day, no matter what. Sure it sucks at times, but it works.
Unfortunately my current 3 weeks streak of consecutive squat workouts may be in jeopardy as I pulled my left hamstring lifting stones today. It was weird, I was lifting the stone and felt a pop in my left hammy. Since pulling it a few hours ago it has been aching and pretty tight, but I can still contract it just fine. Hopefully it is nothing but it just goes to show you that line between hard training and stupidity is very fine.
Here are the workouts I did this weekend
Saturday AM
Truck Pulling
2 sets of max speed for 100 meters
Saturday PM
Mobility Work
Dynamic Warm-Up
empty barbell complex
A1 Front Squat
worked up to 370lbs x Miss
A2 Fat Bar/Axle Clean and Press
worked up to 220lbs x 2, 2, 185 x 3, 3, 5
Sunday AM
Mobility Work
Dynamic Warm-Up
empty barbell complex
A1 Back Squat
worked up to 460lbs x Miss
A2 Strict Military Press
155lbs x 5 x 5
Went light to grease the groove
Atlas Stone Lifting
270lbs x 3, 285lbs x 1, 300lbs x 1, Miss, Miss - pulled hamstring!
Sunday PM
Swings
24kg swings x 200
trying to get blood into the hamstrings after pulling my left one during stone lifting
It's hard to beat a day of lifting, meat-ing, and watching international rugby.
Watching these athletes is not just entertaining, it serves as motivation. Watching 230lbs men with abs sprinting and tackling for an hour and twenty minutes is great motivation. Something we all need if we are truly pushing our body's to the limit.
In my case I have taken extreme measures to get bigger and stronger. I am training seven days a week and starting every session with hard and heavy squats. So the daily squat challenge, as I call it, consists of squatting every day, no matter what. Sure it sucks at times, but it works.
Unfortunately my current 3 weeks streak of consecutive squat workouts may be in jeopardy as I pulled my left hamstring lifting stones today. It was weird, I was lifting the stone and felt a pop in my left hammy. Since pulling it a few hours ago it has been aching and pretty tight, but I can still contract it just fine. Hopefully it is nothing but it just goes to show you that line between hard training and stupidity is very fine.
Here are the workouts I did this weekend
Saturday AM
- 2 sets of max speed for 100 meters
Saturday PM- worked up to 220lbs x 2, 2, 185 x 3, 3, 5
Sunday AM- 270lbs x 3, 285lbs x 1, 300lbs x 1, Miss, Miss - pulled hamstring!
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