Schrodingers Cat
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I hope you guys don't mind me sharing this. I train alone in a storage shed and my wife couldn't care less. lol.
A year ago I had surgery to repair a torn meniscus and clean up some scar tissue from a previous ACL reconstruction. After I was given approval to start training on my own I decided to focus on the squat since I had a good bit of atrophy in my left leg. I could barely do a 16kg goblet squat.
I picked up Original Strength and some fat loss programs from Geoff Neupert. I kept plugging away with the OS resets and progressing to the double KB FSQ. The more OS work I did the more I could squat, the more I could squat, the better my knees felt.
I recently finished a low rep training cycle using a pair of 36kg bells in the FSQ . During this cycle I would sometimes warm up with no more than 135lb while practicing the low bar back squat. Yesterday I loaded the bar with my body weight of 225lb. I did a couple sets of 5 and felt pretty good. For my 3rd set I decided to test myself a bit. I ended up doing 23 reps going below parallel on the back squat. I feel confident that I had 3 reps left in the tank but I called it a day because I was losing tightness in my abs.
These number are nothing special but the progress I have made is very surprising to me considering that I had no previous experience with any squat variation prior to surgery. Magic happens when you just stick to the program.
A year ago I had surgery to repair a torn meniscus and clean up some scar tissue from a previous ACL reconstruction. After I was given approval to start training on my own I decided to focus on the squat since I had a good bit of atrophy in my left leg. I could barely do a 16kg goblet squat.
I picked up Original Strength and some fat loss programs from Geoff Neupert. I kept plugging away with the OS resets and progressing to the double KB FSQ. The more OS work I did the more I could squat, the more I could squat, the better my knees felt.
I recently finished a low rep training cycle using a pair of 36kg bells in the FSQ . During this cycle I would sometimes warm up with no more than 135lb while practicing the low bar back squat. Yesterday I loaded the bar with my body weight of 225lb. I did a couple sets of 5 and felt pretty good. For my 3rd set I decided to test myself a bit. I ended up doing 23 reps going below parallel on the back squat. I feel confident that I had 3 reps left in the tank but I called it a day because I was losing tightness in my abs.
These number are nothing special but the progress I have made is very surprising to me considering that I had no previous experience with any squat variation prior to surgery. Magic happens when you just stick to the program.
