It better be about 2300, or he’s got some explaining to do.
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2200, I’m a day behind. I was a few days ahead but had a few full on days last week where I fell behind.
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To save energy on warmup I’ll do single leg split squats. All the squats with only half the legs! 
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@ChongLordUno want to try 3000 squats in a day?
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No thanks 
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Man, I don’t have much to say about bodyweight squats, good or bad; but BSS/RFESS, that’s another animal entirely. Two things I’m wondering about:
a) will the 100 air squats per day for a month do you any good training wise;
b) would 100 BSS (bodyweight only) per day for a month do you any good training wise.
I may have to guinea pig b) but it’s a struggle for me to get 50 in a session as it is.
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Are you sure?
@SkyzykS once my 3000 charity reps are done, I won’t be doing any more air squats for a while. I’m not convinced they’re very effective for me. Walking lunges will probably become my goto lower body assistance.
@anna_5588 that sounds awful. My knees grumbled just reading that.
@jdm135 I’m not sold on the value of the bodyweight squats at all. Certainly not the gains I was expecting. I think high volume walking lunges or BSS or whatever would be a far better call, and I’m definitely up for some kind of experiment there. In terms of fitting them in your workout, my favourite way to do that is don’t. I sometimes do it just because I’m bored of doing them at home, but normally I do them while doing jobs around the house.
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To be fair to native English speakers, English is a pretty bad language.
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Very sure
I don’t think air squats pack a punch other than a quick cardio burn and increasing GPP which the burpees offer and with a higher pay off
Factor in the knee ache and it becomes nothing more than a pointless endeavour
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I agree. Air squats are too light. They reinforce bad technique and become more of a stress on connective tissue than muscles because the temptation is there to just piston them out without any thought.
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On the subject, I have a weeklong vacation coming up with no gym access. Lots of hiking though. Need to devise a routine that won’t inconvenience my family, won’t tax me, but keeps the engine running. BSS will probably factor in.
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Brian Alsruhe has a new video up addressing exactly that. Although full disclosure: I’m just about to sit down and watch it.
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Work for this arvo:
25 mins run.
Hated it. Sucked. Moving on.
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This is going in my “reasons not to do cardio” file
Is there another reason not to do Cardio?
Work for this arvo:
Warm up stuff
Some Pull ups
12 minutes AMRAP:
5 power snatches (40kg)
5 pull ups
600m assault bike
Notes:
- 5 rounds done, man that sucked hard.
- Crossfit trial day 2. There was some extensive warm ups and movement practice etc. first, which I haven’t really kept a note of. Really pushed myself on the conditioning though, happy with that.
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I didn’t really need another reason. Cardio is the devil.
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@boyce79 I’ve seen those sneaky little 5min treadmill sessions you do, don’t go pretending you hate Cardio now.
Work for this arvo:
Press:
5 x 40kg
5 x 50kg
10 x 50kg
5 x 10 @ 30kg
Notes:
- Did what had to be done, nothing more or less. Really focused on rep quality because the weights are so damn light.
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Hey, while I don’t think you mean any harm by this, and English can be easy to criticize, I feel that opinions like these can be misguided and potentially even dangerous, especially in the wrong context. I think the way that many monolingual English speakers converse can be bad, yet I don’t think English itself is bad. From a learner’s perspective, it has many pros and cons, like most languages.
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