20 Rep Squat Challenge

Bigger Stronger Leaner
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I’m bumping this, because I had a bad week and a half and didn’t do shit for squats during that time. I think I went and looked at the bar a few times, and that was about it.

But I came back to them yesterday, with 195 for 20. I approached them a bit different mentally this time (the break helped) and didn’t have any problem.

Right now I’m debating whether to just do 23+ at bodyweight with a video, or to just keep progressing to 1.5BW. Not sure if I want to “waste” a workout session to hit the 23+…

You know, because 23+ squats with bodyweight on the bar is a waste of a workout session.

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250x21 skip to 40 seconds for first Rep.

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Not sure why video didn’t post will try to post off computer tommorrow at library

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Just for those interested - here’s Rob Orlando squatting his bodyweight hahaha. He’s a beast. Check it out.

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[quote]N.K. wrote:
Just for those interested - here’s Rob Orlando squatting his bodyweight hahaha. He’s a beast. Check it out. [/quote]

Nice. 99 of them in 5 minutes, 102 total.

I think I’ll stick with 23 or so :slight_smile:

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Video might not work. But it’s on my camera, so I’ll get it up here eventually if this doesn’t work.

155x30

Bodyweight of 154.7. I’ll post a pic of the scale too if you really want.

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[quote]LoRez wrote:
Video might not work. But it’s on my camera, so I’ll get it up here eventually if this doesn’t work.

155x30

Bodyweight of 154.7. I’ll post a pic of the scale too if you really want.[/quote]

And now I realize why I should have video’d myself before. Bad form all over the place. There were definitely a few squat-mornings in there. At least everything looked like it was at least to parallel.

Maybe I’ll lift in the daytime next time too… that lighting was awful.

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My PB is BW (220) x 17, depth was decent! Aiming to build on that a lot over the next year, plan is to follow the 2 + 2 rule i.e. 2 consecutive workouts with 2 more reps than aimed for = more weight

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185X20. far from champ but we’ll see what happens

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did 125kg/275.5lbs x20 for shit and giggles

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[quote]caveman101 wrote:
did 125kg/275.5lbs x20 for shit and giggles[/quote]

What an ass. :wink: One of these days I’ll be able to do that too.

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I saw a guy do 50 reps with 225 once, his set lasted like 5 minutes (!!!) Your feet can start going numb when you do sets like this (!!!)

Here’s a technique that I use to trick myself into getting 20 reps in a ‘rest-pause’ style (but without setting the bar down):

Count them like this: 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (that equals 20). So, 5 reps then pause and get some deep breaths. Then another ‘mini set’ of 5, then a set of 4, 3, 2, 1, with a pause for air in-between each. This way, as you get more and more tired, the number of reps drops every time.

If you miss a rep during a mini-set, that just means you have to add another ‘single’ at the end, to make 20. Everybody can usually find one more single rep in the tank, if the chips are down. If you are really pushing yourself, you might have to do a whole bunch of ‘singles’ in a sequence :wink:

I find this technique helps both physically and mentally (the idea of 20 reps can be intimidating, so break the set up into manageable chunks).

I also use this type of approach when I’m having a bad day, or if I have to do a reeaally heavy set… I tell myself “I’m just going to do 1 or 2 reps, no big deal!” but lo and behold, after two reps I still have gas in the tank for more reps, and I keep going :wink:

In other words, trick yourself into doing more by playing “counting games”.

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[quote]K2000 wrote:
Count them like this: 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (that equals 20). So, 5 reps then pause and get some deep breaths. Then another ‘mini set’ of 5, then a set of 4, 3, 2, 1, with a pause for air in-between each. This way, as you get more and more tired, the number of reps drops every time.
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I like this. I usually just blast through the first 10, the do doubles and singles. will switch to this, seeing as I’m up to 140kg x20