r/weightroom is having a contest through the month of June - total squat volume in <10 minutes! We'd love for you to join. Prizes include custom flair in r/weightroom and a newfound appreciation for how much suffering you're willing to subject yourself to in order to beat strangers on the internet.
Contest rules and discussion can be found here.
Entries can be submitted here starting on June 1.
We hope you'll join us!
Posted May 26, 2021, 1:02 PM UTC
This will make good training for the July widowmaker challenge!
Let's get ittttt, worked up a little formula not sure if I can complete it, at all, or in the time allowed but I'm gonna take a swing at it.
My leg has been giving me trouble, and May contest is the first one I'll have to skip in a couple of years. It doesn't look good for this one either, but if I can manage it I'll try it at the end of the month.
That's rough dude. I actually just strained my oblique less than a week ago so I may not be in shape for this one either, but at least we can watch other people suffer participate.
My gut says that the winners will be very well conditioned and that weight on the bar will come secondary to the ability to just get back under it sooner. We'll see though!
Mine isn't even a real injury, it's just that my gracilis doesn't wanna play. My posterior chain doesn't activate enough, which has caused my quads to take over, and the adductors on my leg just don't get enough work. So, when I lift, they get agitated. It's gone to the point where the left is sore all the time, and won't let me squat. Rehab is helping but by fuck is it slow.
In 6 months I've had one week of normal training, after my shoulder was healed before the leg gave out. My physical therapist commented "Well, yeah, you're forty, so...".
Quite off topic, really, but I need to vent.
Kind of amused that there's no entry yet. I'm sure some people will be prepping for a last minute entry but I'm sure a lot of people are like "ehhhh let's sit this one out"
It's not even June lol
Listen...
Yes...
Ok, this shit feels like a crossfit workout.
Other observations:
I did 60 kilos, managed 102 reps. 13,464lbs. (My max squat is 365lbs.)
Watching my video, many of my reps look like “pulse squats”, as in I don’t go all the way up, but I’m consistent on the way down. I don’t know if the person running the challenge is going to have a problem with that.
I’m dying. I tried 132 to see where I’m at, but I don’t see myself doing more than 60 reps with 225lbs.
Many people way stronger than me will get to 20k and 25k easily.
Anybody else try this yet? I goofed around this morning tried 225 for reps got like 52 in the 10 mins didn't record it, on the fence if I should go hard on it one more time before the month is up.
It was terrible as someone who doesn't normally do a lot of reps on squats I was trashed in no time.
Yep! There's been more entries than I'd anticipated. We've had things ranging from "here's my max reps in a Strongman competition" to someone who did it in a gator costume to someone who did 110 reps without racking the bar to someone who was just a few pounds from breaking the 25k lbs mark. You should try it again just to see where you end up!
I have been thinking about how I can improve on it, may see if I can give it one more go before the month is up
Hello! I’m moving to Tampa, Florida and for a year, I’ll be without my precious home gym (thanks to apartment life). Are there any strongman gyms in the Tampa area I can look into? Thanks I’m advance!
As a volume-hater this is my nightmare. Probably should do it.
I’m almost done with a 20rep squat program, feel like I can jump into this pretty easily!
Can't wait to see it!
If I survive these last two weeks! Was actually thinking to do a write up of my experience with this program.