Not FEELING the Squat Challenge

I'm on day 5 today and I started feeling it in my butt yesterday on the rest day. How long have you been on it?

I'm on Day 5 and today which is a rest day yesterday I had to do 200 squats, I have been so sore. The soreness is in my legs which are what I mainly want to focus on. Stick with it I'm sure you will see some good results. I haven't been this sore since completing insanity.

Good luck on your journey

I'm on Day 10, today is a rest day, yay!! I did 220 squats yesterday and I'm doing 225 tomorrow. I'm not really seeing a big difference. My legs are stronger but they look the same. Has anyone seen any improvement?

I just hope I see some difference after killing myself everyday lol

If you want squats to activate your glutes, you have to go lower as PureAdamic says. Shallower squats activate your quads more, so you'll feel them in the front of your legs.

Doing more squats or adding more weight won't help if you don't go low enough to activate the posterior chain. You want your hips to break parallel at least, but you can go lower if you don't have mobility issues/poor flexibility.

Thanks! I'm going to focus on going lower

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Are you using our heels to come up? Your toes shouldn't be carrying the weight of the squat at all. FORM is probably why you are not feeling it.

If you use your heels to come up, then that should force your butt to actually help push you back up.

Also, like it was said, you must go lower. If it helps get a low stool and have your butt touch it. You want your butt parallel to the floor.

Hope this helps!

my old body pump instructor used to say u had to imagine sitting on a chair to do a squat properly... stick your bum out more lol!

I've always been told breaking parallel is poor form for squats and will end up hurting your knees.

If you only do half squats all the load/stress is on the knee, it isn't until you do the complete squat that the weight shifts to the hip area which can support much greater loads.

How much weight are you adding? If none, then it really stops becoming 'strength training' after something like... a week. And is about as effective as walking at getting you stronger/fitter after that.

The squat challenge is only with body weight, However I do squats outside of the challenge w/ a barbell set w/ weights too.

Are you saying the only time it's affective is if I use weights?

How much weight are you adding? If none, then it really stops becoming 'strength training' after something like... a week. And is about as effective as walking at getting you stronger/fitter after that.

The squat challenge is only with body weight, However I do squats outside of the challenge w/ a barbell set w/ weights too.

Are you saying the only time it's affective is if I use weights?

Supplementing your weighted squats with the squat challenge is actually counterproductive to results. You're denying the body rest it needs. Plus if you can bang out THAT many you're just not getting any strength benefit.

In the squat you're not really squatting down, so much as you are pushing your hips backwards and sitting down. If that makes any sense. You're probably feeling it in your quads for two reasons. One, it's something new and you definitely work your quads in the squat. Two, your form probably needs to be a little bit better. Try holding your arms out in-front of you while you're doing them and push them hips back.

You need to add more resistance. This can be accomplished easily with a barbell.
But for bodyweight, there's still a LOT of room to grow without touching weights. For example: Split squats and pistol squats.

I had to look up split squats and pistol squats. I'll try those tomorrow

Thanks