200 squat challenge

ANAH1219

I'm late but I would love to join this challenge. I took the test and did 41 squats.

The program says I should begin at Week 3/2nd column. I'll Start this tonight!!!

Thanks for the challenge!!

RunningAddict

W2D2L2: 13,16,13,13,18=73
I'm starting to see how these babies can whip your legs into shape lol! Loving it!

jackiemonx

i just did the initial test and stopped at 50 as it only goes to 49. so ive to start at week 3 day1 which ill do tomorrow

RunningAddict

W2D3L2-16,18,13,13,21=81
That set was a little harder!

shoppie

Can I join? I'm a little late but pretty good at squats as I have done a lot of Jillian Michaels etc. I just did the initial test and did 50 straight without too many problems, so hopefully I can catch up quite quickly!

I will start with week 3 tomorrow :flowerforyou:

RunningAddict

W3D1L2-16,22,17,17,22=94

craig1980112

second time i have done squats and i did 3 sets of 50 .I will be pushing to do 60 reps per set by the end of the week .

shoppie

W3, D1, L3 - 19.24, 19, 19, 30 - 111 - felt quite tough on my knees but had done Jillian Michael's banish fat this morning and yesterday the test obviously so will see how Weds

RunningAddict

W3D2L2- 19,25,19,19,25= 107
Gettin Easier! Woot.

bmfrazie

W4D1L2: 24, 30, 22, 22, 40= 138

RunningAddict

W3L2D3-22,29,20,21,29=121

shoppie

W3, L3, D2 - 27, 34, 21, 21, 40 - 143

This is quite hard for me as literally ll my workout DVDs have quite a lot of squats in and I'm doing these on top. There is only one day a week that I don't do a workout DVD - Monday, so I'm little unsure when to do the other sessions :-z

shoppie

W3, D3, L3 - 30, 38, 27. 27, 45 - 167. Noticed I was very focussed on getting to 45 in the final set, was counting how many still to go and did break a sweat so must be doing something!

RunningAddict

W4L2D1-24, 30,22,22,33= 131

shoppie

W4 L3 D1 - 29, 34, 29, 29, 50 - 171.

Just seen we have to do another exhaustion test at the end of this week, not especially looking forward to that!! I found the 50 in my final set hard going today (to be fair, the min required was 43 so I could have stopped sooner, but 200 still feels a loooooooong way off!!

jgic2009

Don't think I will join now but I do want to save this idea for later. Thanks for sharing!

RunningAddict

W4L2D2-27,34,27,27,38= 153

shoppie

Humph, I did not feel good yesterday or today so am going to be really late with my next set, should have done them yesterday..

shoppie

Felt better this morning so got straight onto it before my body could change its mind!!

W4, L3, D2 - 34, 40, 34, 34, 55 - total 197. final set of 55 was really hard going, the min target for the final set was 49 but I had wanted to get to 55 because I did 50 in my final set the other day so just kept goingt!! I know I had breaks, but it is nice that total number of squats is now so close to 200, it makes me feel this is actually doable! :laugh:

RunningAddict

W4L2D3- 31,38,31,31,45= 176

shoppie

Nice total running addict, when are you doing your exhaustion test??

I did mine today after all as had forgotten today is my day off exercise DVDs, so actually given I have no other squats to do probably my best day to get it done!

W4, L3, D3 - 40, 45, 40, 40, 60 - total 225. Final set of 60 really hard going again! I will be doing the exhaustion test tomorrow night which should be between the 24 and 48 hours later recommended. Going to be interesting!!

zumbawhit

Cool Idea!!!!!

bmfrazie

I have found myself majorly slacking the last few weeks. This morning I am going to do the exhaustion test again and will start on week 4 AGAIN!

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60 squats

shoppie

Did my exhaustion test tonight and did 61 consecutive squats. I did kind of cheat though as I had looked in week 5 and seen anything over 60 put you on L3 so just stopped once I got over 60 :blushing:

It was interesting though as I found some of the early stages remarkably tough yet I have done 60 in a final set having done shedloads in prior sets before - not sure if its psycological or I actually need to warm up properly to do better?

Troll

Tha'ts just bodyweight squats? Do you think i could add weight to it? I already do over 500 bodyweight at a time.

shoppie

I definitely think you could easily add weights to it. If you were lifting the weights at shoulder height and bringing them forward each time you squat down tbh I think you could take your pic what weight. I was also thinking this would be an interesting way to take the challenge up to the next level, lots of the exercise DVDs I do have squats with weights so I don't see why this would be any different?

bmfrazie

W4L3D1: 29, 35, 29, 29, 43 = 165

shoppie

W5, L3, D1 - 49, 54, 40, 32, 60 - 235.

finally over my bug so felt like I had loads of energy and could have kept going with the final set, but I knew the min was 54 so I got to 60 and thought 'that'll do!' :laugh:

shoppie

W5, L3, D2 - 27,27, 32, 32, 24, 24, 30, 68 - total 261.

Felt like way more than that because of the 8 sets instead of 5. Final set was really tough, my bum was killing me!!

RunningAddict

If I ever skip another whole week of doing NO squats, someone beat me with a stick lol! This set was very hard!!
W5L2D1-38,47,34,30,47= 196

After skipping a whole week I don't think I want to try an exhuastion test until at least after this week.