Maybe he was doing all 88 sets of 1.
T-Matt has the best avatar ever.
I’ll chime in here:
It was, of course, a leg day. I got it from an issue of Musclemag back in the 90s. It was some pro’s routine, I don’t remember who…
You warm up with leg extensions, 3x15. Then you do ten sets of squats: 3x50, 4x20 and 3x15. Then you do a quad exercise of your choice(hack, front squat, etc.) for 4x20. You finish with leg curls for 3x15.
Made my legs sore for three to four days.
5X5 complex of power clean, push press, then front squat-that’s one rep. Friggin’ brutal-I love to hate it…
[quote]Garage Warrior wrote:
5X5 complex of power clean, push press, then front squat-that’s one rep. Friggin’ brutal-I love to hate it…[/quote]
I’ve done a similar progression in place of DE Squat/DL recently.
The only difference is that i didn’t press out the push press to avoid adding volume to upper body pressing.
I instead gained hight by exploding out of the squat and slowing the eccentric bringing the bar back to my shoulders. About 3 seconds on the eccentric.
It’s brutal but sofar seems effective.
[quote]tobywan wrote:
Hardest workout was definitely the weekend long special training I did for karate. Basically, you arrive at the gym (basketball court) on Friday night, train for 3-4 hours straight (lot’s of basics, staying in stances for a half hour, etc.) then get a 3 hour break. You eat and sleep in the gym. You then train for another 2-3 hours, then break 3 hours. This continues until late Sunday afternoon.
I’m not sure what all the numbers add up to, but definitely hundreds of forms, thousands of basics, a painful amount of duck walking and bunny hopping, and then there’s Sunday. Sunday was some sparring combination basics (lots of bruises from that), 1000 situps, 1000 pushups (though no one ever does all 1000 pushups, at least not with good form), 1000 squat kicks, and 100 front kicks each leg from a deep front stance and a guy equal to your size on your shoulders.
The bitch of that drill is that all the kickers stand side by side so that the people on the shoulders can link arms. If one person screws up, the whole line goes down and you start back at 0 kicks. Add to that sensai walks around with a kendo sword (the proper name escapes me right now) and lays into you if he catches you cheating or not focusing.
It was fun, definitely made me feel like I could do anything afterwards, all about that mind over matter thing. Definitely left a lasting impression. And by that I mean when I was in my bed at home Sunday night, I woke up doing crunches…
Take it easy,
Toby[/quote]
lemme guess, Kyokushin?
been there many times, Toby.
Osu!
I would have to say Meltdown I. It really taxed my system and ego.
3 come to mind.
100 reps with 135 in the squat.
17 reps with 285 in the squat.
20 drop sets on DB squats doing 6 reps each set,starting with 100lb DB’s all the way down to 5’s.Insanity.
this was the worst…but it was my own damn fault
had only had 300 cals prior + legs day + then right after leg workout, being invited by a guy i liked at the time to go on a hike not know it would be an hour of straight incline = getting to the top, puking, then passing out.
It was the day before my carb load day. I literally could not get out of bed the next day…what a girl with do to spend time with a boy she likes.
HEAVY Front Squats.
I have only passed out once, but I have hurled numerous times.
I just got a set of bands and ME squat day with only a choked mini band, but hitting all my straight weight PR’s was probably the hardest workout I’ve ever done. I usually look forward to PR-ing the box squat, but I had serious reservations about that last set. It was a gut check, believe you me.
Meltdown I
Fat to Fire I
Never thought of trying the ‘sequels’…
Tabata method with frontsquats. It was my second Tabata workout, and I decided to di it with Front squats insted of thrusters which I started with.
After I finished the 4 minutes I literally staggered into my kitchen floor and lay there drooling in 15 minutes trying not to puke.
Growing up on a Farm, and as a son of a dad with a company needing a lot of help with manual work I understand where you farmers are coming from. It’s tough and hard goddamn work. When having thrown around with hundreds of sacks with 50 kg and 25 kg all day it doesn’t leave you with a lot of energy to do your squats when coming home.
Then people can fuck their hard squat routine or I can fuck my tabata 4 minutes - it’s nothing compared to that shit - day after day.