Catrin
01-26-2013, 10:25 AM
I squatted a ton this morning - literally :) Actually a couple of them!
Our usual Sunday morning session was moved to Sat. for this week only, and our trainer obviously decided that it was lower body day. After a significant dynamic warmup, we were faced with a simple challenge.
1 round = back squating a cumulative 1 ton of weight + 200 meter run + climbing 4 flights of stairs for a total of 4 rounds.
Thankfully he did the math for us so the number of reps we did was related to the weight we chose.
I was a little concerned about lifting my 65 pound weight over my head (shoulder issue), so the first two rounds featured 50 goblet squats with a 35 lb kettle-bell. That got too intense on the second round, so I grabbed a spotter so I wouldn't have to do an overhead press to get the barbell on my traps and did 2 rounds of back squats with a 65 pound bar-bell - 50 reps each. I could have done 30 reps with that weight but my second round with the kettle-bell wasn't pretty. Give me back squats over goblet squats any time - my grip needs work.
It was a fun workout, and my quads are talking a little bit this afternoon - it is hard to get their attention these days so am glad I can feel it a bit!
That was a total of 8,250 pounds this morning, 35 for 100 reps and 65 for 100 reps :) I can back squat a lot more than 65 pounds but with my shoulder it seemed best to choose one of the lower weight options.
Our usual Sunday morning session was moved to Sat. for this week only, and our trainer obviously decided that it was lower body day. After a significant dynamic warmup, we were faced with a simple challenge.
1 round = back squating a cumulative 1 ton of weight + 200 meter run + climbing 4 flights of stairs for a total of 4 rounds.
Thankfully he did the math for us so the number of reps we did was related to the weight we chose.
I was a little concerned about lifting my 65 pound weight over my head (shoulder issue), so the first two rounds featured 50 goblet squats with a 35 lb kettle-bell. That got too intense on the second round, so I grabbed a spotter so I wouldn't have to do an overhead press to get the barbell on my traps and did 2 rounds of back squats with a 65 pound bar-bell - 50 reps each. I could have done 30 reps with that weight but my second round with the kettle-bell wasn't pretty. Give me back squats over goblet squats any time - my grip needs work.
It was a fun workout, and my quads are talking a little bit this afternoon - it is hard to get their attention these days so am glad I can feel it a bit!
That was a total of 8,250 pounds this morning, 35 for 100 reps and 65 for 100 reps :) I can back squat a lot more than 65 pounds but with my shoulder it seemed best to choose one of the lower weight options.