http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskwSs-w9gE (315lb squat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nonOb79GCjU (355lb squat)

I struggled on the 355lb set toward the end, but overall I felt pretty solid. I squat heavy twice a week, in theory; this was my first workout since last Thursday. I've made rapid progress since starting lifting again at the end of January. Lot of flab to work off, but I'm not really even focused on cutting right now. I guess I'm obsessed with strength, I'll get around to thinning up around May to try and get ready for summer.

dayummmmmmm

I tried a twenty rep squat routine last summer, but really had no idea anything about working out (not that I know much now) and did hella shitty. Still put on about twenty pounds with little fat, though.

I've tried squatting again since, but it seems for me that I just can't do the movement. I can do bodyweight squats fine, and really low weights, but once I hit even like 100 pounds I start to swerve to either direction on the way up. I've tried different stances, but that doesn't seem to matter.

If I ever start working out again I'm gonna look into different kinds of squats. I bet I could do hack squats.

I can allllllllmost do one-legged squats. I should work on that, since I haven't felt like weight training for a long time.


What do you dead? Bench? What's your routine?

Lately I've just been doing a little bit of acrobatics and swimming and yoga. But that's better than the nothing I did for the previous eight months.

>_>


e: You're not morbidly obese enough. You pretty much look buff from that view. Work on getting fat prz.

Maybe you should just be working longer at the weights you're doing under 100lbs. Your body needs time to adjust to lifting, especially with an exercise as complex as the squat. I'm training my brother right now; he's been at it for about a month and a half and is still squatting 95lbs, but his technique is fairly solid and he's making good strength gains.

I don't know much about the 20-rep squat program; i haven't looked much into it because I've got more than enough mass as it is already, lol. If you put on 20lbs over the course of the routine, you obviously did something right, but maybe some research before any next attempt at a weightlifting routine would do some good. I just updated the sticky topic on fitness-related reading material (finally), check out Starting Strengh above anything else. When I read it I realized that my routine had a few crucial opportunities for improvement and my results benefited very nicely.

If you're going to start lifting again I'm not sure whether it'd be a good idea to vary your stance too much; starting out you're really supposed to get the basic lifts down before you change it up too much. Work more on the weights you're comfortable with now and move up from there. You say that you're more bodyweight-oriented now, though; maybe you'll want to stick with those exercises. I'm sure you've seen trainforstrength.com spammed across the gamefaqs message board countless times by now; can't really go wrong with that routine..if you can stomach it, it used to kick my ass.

I do a full body strength-training workout three days a week. Squat, bench, and row on Monday. Squat, deadlift, and standing overhead press on Wednesday. Then Squat, bench, and row again on Friday. The days vary depending on my ability to get myself to the gym

Where I am with weight now is (5RM followed by ORM):

Squat: 355lbs 405lbs
Bench: 205lbs 245lbs
Deadlift: 315lbs 385lbs
Standing Overhead Press: 185lbs 205lbs

Can probably do more on the overhead press, but it's a dangerous lift so I haven't pushed it.

Well, with the twenty rep squats thing the goal was to go up by five or ten pounds every workout. Once I hit 95 I "plateaued" (I don't feel right calling it that at 95 pounds>_>) and stayed there for a few weeks. Then school and work started and I completely stopped working out and eating a ton and lost ten pounds. I was doing more than twenty reps on 95 after a while, so I obviously made some kind of strength gains there, but I still couldn't seem to keep proper form with more weight.

While I don't really plan on starting a routine any time soon, when I do I'll definitely learn more about fitness and the routine itself. I didn't even really stick to 20rs last time, and sort of threw in my own crap. And some days I would just do other stuff that I felt like doing instead of following the routine at all. Haven't checked out those links yet, but I will.

And yeah, I definitely wouldn't try to change up squats too much if I started again. By which I mean change the traditional squat. It's been time-tested and that shit is solid, whether I can do it or not. I do think that doing things like hack squats or box squats could help me to get down the balance strength or whatever the hell I'm missing that won't let me do a regular squat.

And yeah, I've seen TFS. Somebody (I think Nickolay?) once also posted a nice pdf of a bunch of bodyweight exercises on here and I have that sitting around on my desktop. I should probably start some kind of routine...

I have no idea what my lifts are. But I'm sure they're pathetic. They were pathetic back when I actually (kind of) weight trained.

Your stats are pretty good, mang.

Watching those videos makes me feel like such a little girly man. You can squat like 3 of me.

It looks like you were pushing on the 355, coming down fast and going up slow. =-/

EDIT: good work on squats.

I wish I could swat, it feels so good and tires me out so much. It's just every time I do it my right knee goes into shock for like 2 weeks and becomes swollen.

Impressivo my friend.