re: Annual Squatober Thread - TigerDroppings Year 4: SEE YOU IN 2024!!!!

Just finished day 20. The farmer walk/goblet squat superset had my heart rate redlined by about the 7th squat every round (I used 60lb dbs for walk then just squatted one at the end). Surprisingly my grip strength and forearms were fine. Legs felt good all the way through the workout and I still felt strong doing the pause squats at the end.

I also got 5 sets on cardio; I was going for 6+ and was on pace til set 4. Then I was basically at failure on the close grip push-ups and barely got that fifth one. I’m blaming not resting the full time on the 5x4 bench at 78%.

I enjoyed that workout a lot more than I expected to. Tomorrow looks brutal, but I haven’t had tater tots in years so it’s got that going for it.

frick these split squats!

Edit: done in under an hour. Was gassed after three sets of cardio though. Triceps just gave up on me.

Looks like on IG that Aaron said a reasonable target is 5 reps (2min rest) for the 90% squats. I’m thinking I could do better than that, but maybe 10 was aggressive :)

First off….holy shite the arm pump on the pull-up and row amrap. I got 11 rounds. Dunno how I’m gonna do the cardio.


As far as day 21, I’m shooting for 15 reps at 90%. Every 45s I’m getting a rep.

Got to set unreasonable goals, I mean it’s only 1 rep, how hard can it be

Done today. Everything went well except cardio. Made foolish mistake and set timer to 5 hours instead of 5 minutes. When my tris finally gave out I checked my timer feeling like a B!#$#. Got 7.5 minutes of pure misery. Ha

I had 15 per side on the barbell and 25lb dbs first set, and knew something had to give. I dropped down to 12.5 per side plus barbell and made it through.

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Got 7.5 minutes of pure misery.

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Overachiever!

I’m up way too late after this terrible saints game

Pressure cooker is coming early tomorrow.