20Rep squats

[Tweakle]

Dave you lucky, lucky bastard. I'd love to train with him & Bob Whelan!

what kind of stuff does he put your friend through?

slobberknocker, yeah that would be fine with me too. Do you think the program would have been effective with a less extreme diet (the one strossen reccomends is like 5000 cals with icecream shakes, crazy)

 

[slobberknocker]

I think so. It's a very sound program. Lots of heavy compound moves, with a focus on progressive resistance. That's all you need. The only change I would make is don't do the breathing squats 3 days/week. Only do them once a week. 3 times beat the hell out of my CNS, and I think I dropped it to once a week after a couple of weeks.

 

[Tweakle]

I'm adding a couple of other lower body exercises, if I drop them and ONLY squat 3 x you think it would be do-able? cns burnout is not something I want to experience first hand...


also while I got you here did you do your sets in the 3 breaths between every rep or did you do the first part of the set continuously then take breaths as you need them?

 

[slobberknocker]

If it was me, I'd do the squats one day, then the other two days I'd do deadlifts and maybe some cleans. GM's are also an option. But I think you could go ahead and try the squatting 3x/week and do it until you start to feel a little rundown, and then switch it up a little.

I tried to blast through the first 10 or so, then the next 5 would take a lot longer, and the last 5 were pure hell with a lot of time between. My "plan" was always to try and "fall asleep" for the first 15 or 16 reps, then "wake up" and do the last 4 or 5 reps. Kind of weird. My thinking was that mentally I couldn't handle 20 reps, but I knew I could handle 5. So I'd try and hypnotize myself and just go into a zone, then wake up at the end.

 

[sk*]

Thanks for all the responses guys.

-sk

 

[PolishHammer1977]

Dave you lucky, lucky bastard. I'd love to train with him & Bob Whelan!

what kind of stuff does he put your friend through?

slobberknocker, yeah that would be fine with me too. Do you think the program would have been effective with a less extreme diet (the one strossen reccomends is like 5000 cals with icecream shakes, crazy)

Absolute hell. My buddy doesnt train with him anymore but he did.

Its hell.

 

[Dave949]

The only change I would make is don't do the breathing squats 3 days/week. Only do them once a week. 3 times beat the hell out of my CNS,

I couldn`t agree with you more Slobber. I also read and followed the super squat book several years ago and found that 3 times a week was excessive and put a serious strain on my CNS also.
I held up and made strength gains for the first 3 weeks or so but went downhill fast after that and started to lose weight and I was very lethargic 24/7.

IMHO......if you put your absolute heart and soul in those 20 reps,
to where your eyes are about to pop out of your head and snot is blowing out your nose and spittal is spraying out your mouth and your face is so red it makes Rudolph the red nose reindeer look anemic and your face is so freakishly contorted it is dwonright pathetic, once a week is all you need.

 

[DeepZenPill]

I do DC training, so my quad exercises rotate between 20 rep free weight squats, 20 rep smith squats, and 20 rep hack squats. I always fear them because I know it's going to be some pain, but they're so satisfying when you know you absolutely destroyed your legs.

 

[Dave949]

when you know you absolutely destroyed your legs.

Word up bro ..............

 

[ProteinFiend]

do you guys use spotters?