Monday, July 27, 2009

Volumizing Squats

Squat shoes didn't show up today, so continued in the chucks.

Squats:
365 x 5
365 + 40lbs of chains x 5
365 + 80 of chains x 5
365 + 120 of chains x 5
365 + 160 of chains x 5

Didn't feel too bad today. Moved the chains up a bit, so they deloaded at the bottom all but 1-2 links. Maybe one link was one the floor when upright.

Box Squats:
no belt; 13" box w/ foam

145 x 8
195 x 8
215 x 8
235 x 8
255 x 8

Much easier this week as my core wasn't shot. The foam definitely makes it harder as your body has to adjust to the unsettling. I originally thought it was gimicky, but it does seem to actually do something.

Spent such a long time squatting, I did heavy calf raises and hanging leg raises for finish. The calf machine here goes to 600, which is awesome. I can actually exhaust myself on these in under 30 reps.

2 comments:

Brent Tanaka said...

you do "free squats" with the chains, right? dave from 4star likes to do those a lot too. i'm going to starting doing those.

Juggernaut, the said...

yeah, just regular free squats with the chains hanging off.