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Barbell A Barbell Squat Challenge for 2022 (315lb x As Many Reps As Proper)

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watchnerd said:
Nice.

How do your elbows feel?
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My past 8 weeks have been zercher only so it feels the same way high bar does on my back now.

Sort of similar to like when you're a beginner and you start backsquatting it hurts like heck but now is natural - zercher does the same for the elbows
 
Comrademode said:
My past 8 weeks have been zercher only so it feels the same way high bar does on my back now.

Sort of similar to like when you're a beginner and you start backsquatting it hurts like heck but now is natural - zercher does the same for the elbows
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Cool.

I've never messed with Zercher long enough to adapt, because I have to front squat, instead.
 
(as of 6/14/22 - there are 200 days left in 2022!!!)

Deadline for entries is December 31, 2022
Boris Bachmann: 1 (1/1/22), 2 (1/8/22), 3 (2/12/22), 5 (3/26/22)
Mark U: 3 (1/4/22), 7 (3/22/22), 8 (4/1/22)
Doug S: 7 (1/2/22)
Arden C: 17 (1/5/22)
William B: 5 (1/9/22)
N Hung: 1 (1/7/22), 2 (2/26/22)
Sam W: 18 (1/13/22), 20 (2/10/22)
Steve K: 5 (1/17/22), 10 (5/27/22)
Antti: 10 (1/19/22)
Reid W: 12 (1/22/22)
Jason Bl: 6 (2/10/22)
John K: 1 (2/15/22)
Ivan D: 11 (2/17/22)
Chris M: 1 (4/2/22)
Comrademode: 12 (6/14/22)
 
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Boris Bachmann said:
(as of 6/14/22 - there are 200 days left in 2022!!!)

Deadline for entries is December 31, 2022
Current Entries (as of 3/26/22):
Boris Bachmann: 1 (1/1/22), 2 (1/8/22), 3 (2/12/22), 5 (3/26/22)
Mark U: 3 (1/4/22), 7 (3/22/22), 8 (4/1/22)
Doug S: 7 (1/2/22)
Arden C: 17 (1/5/22)
William B: 5 (1/9/22)
N Hung: 1 (1/7/22), 2 (2/26/22)
Sam W: 18 (1/13/22), 20 (2/10/22)
Steve K: 5 (1/17/22), 10 (5/27/22)
Antti: 10 (1/19/22)
Reid W: 12 (1/22/22)
Jason Bl: 6 (2/10/22)
John K: 1 (2/15/22)
Ivan D: 11 (2/17/22)
Chris M: 1 (4/2/22)
Comrademode: 12 (6/14/22)
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Well now I just feel like I'm slacking. There's some great numbers in there!!
 
The numbers so far (in order of first submission):

Boris Bachmann: 1 (1/1/22), 2 (1/8/22), 3 (2/12/22), 5 (3/26/22)
Mark U: 3 (1/4/22), 7 (3/22/22), 8 (4/1/22)
Doug S: 7 (1/2/22)
Arden: 17 (1/5/22)
William B: 5 (1/9/22)
N Hung: 1 (1/7/22), 2 (2/26/22)
Sam W: 18 (1/13/22), 20 (2/10/22)
Steve K: 5 (1/17/22), 10 (5/27/22)
Antti: 10 (1/19/22)
Reid W: 12 (1/22/22)
Jason B: 6 (2/10/22)
John K: 1 (2/15/22)
Ivan D: 11 (2/17/22)
Chris M: 1 (4/2/22)
Comrademode: 12 (6/14/22)
Watchnerd: 6 (6/19/22)
 
I've been doing squats again. Looks like I'm good to go again, which is great, of course.

The training has gone fine and I've surpassed my own expectations.

So, a couple of days ago, I decided to load only 140kg on the bar and improve my numbers so far.

Alas, it was not meant to be. I went up to ten again, without any real stress apart from getting slightly winded. But I developed such a fundamental distaste for the long sets that I simply refused to go on, even considering the honor and acclaim available through this challenge.

I suppose I'll try again later this year but it doesn't look good to me. But squats, squats are nice.
 
Antti said:
I've been doing squats again. Looks like I'm good to go again, which is great, of course.

The training has gone fine and I've surpassed my own expectations.

So, a couple of days ago, I decided to load only 140kg on the bar and improve my numbers so far.

Alas, it was not meant to be. I went up to ten again, without any real stress apart from getting slightly winded. But I developed such a fundamental distaste for the long sets that I simply refused to go on, even considering the honor and acclaim available through this challenge.

I suppose I'll try again later this year but it doesn't look good to me. But squats, squats are nice.
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I feel you. I've hit some kind of plateau actually and it's a little frustrating to be honest. An adductor issue isn't helping, but yea, squats ARE nice.
 
Boris Bachmann said:
I feel you. I've hit some kind of plateau actually and it's a little frustrating to be honest. An adductor issue isn't helping, but yea, squats ARE nice.
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I think it's the adductor that was my problem. Took almost two years. Oh well.

william bad butt said:
Yes I've decided I'm not going above 5 reps for any set during my training. Then once I'm ready, I'll push it... 1 time... and see how many I'm willing to do.
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That sounds like a good plan.

I think I went at it too leisurely. I'll really need to push it. Maybe ask someone to yell at me and put some rocking tunes on far too loud. I think I'll give it one more shot and then forget it.
 
Antti said:
Alas, it was not meant to be. I went up to ten again, without any real stress apart from getting slightly winded. But I developed such a fundamental distaste for the long sets that I simply refused to go on, even considering the honor and acclaim available through this challenge.
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I had (and am still having) a struggle with squats in my current hypertrophy block going 10+ reps.

I don't like them and I want to throw a tantrum. But they are making my legs grow because it's a novel stimulus.

The 20 degree squat wedge front cyclist squats for reps are especially frown-inducing.
 
watchnerd said:
I had (and am still having) a struggle with squats in my current hypertrophy block going 10+ reps.

I don't like them and I want to throw a tantrum. But they are making my legs grow because it's a novel stimulus.

The 20 degree squat wedge front cyclist squats for reps are especially frown-inducing.
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There is a time and place for using the main lift for hypertrophy work. But I'm not sure whether I'd just do a HIT style 5-8 rep set and call it a day.

If I wanted to do more of pure hypertrophy work, I would do belt squats or step ups or Bulgarian split squats.
 
Antti said:
There is a time and place for using the main lift for hypertrophy work. But I'm not sure whether I'd just do a HIT style 5-8 rep set and call it a day.
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Perhaps I'm not clear on what you meant by "HIT style", but I'm definitely not doing barbell back squats as met cons.

I can do a set of 10-12 rep back squats in the 120 kg range and get local metabolite build up before I get systemically gassed.

If I'm doing hypertrophy work, I'll do 4-5 sets of that in a session at meso cycle peak before deload. Rest between sets is typically 1-2 min.

As for 20 degree wedge squats, those are definitely not a main lift.
 
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