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Bodybuilding 20-Rep Squat Routine, DO YOU DARE ENOUGH TO TRY IT??

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yeahs4.1
post Jan 3 2009, 02:58 AM

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QUOTE(pizzaboy @ Jan 3 2009, 01:13 AM)
I started off at 100KG x 20 and moved up to 125KG x 20
And that was it. I never could do it again. Never dared to. It....is by far the most difficult thing you can do in the gym

I'll break it down

1-5=EASY
6-10=Manageable
11-13=Doubt comes
14-15=Feels like stopping
16-18=There's no way I can finish this
19-20=ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

In short.....brutal beyond words.
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so how is the result? the author said that it's good for strength and size. it looks more like strength-oriented to me though
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post Jan 3 2009, 04:42 PM

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i think i'll start this after CNY as well..
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post Jan 3 2009, 05:47 PM

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QUOTE(pizzaboy @ Jan 3 2009, 04:46 PM)
No way...it's not a strength orientated program at all!
It's closer to size+endurance than strength if you ask me. Well basically after 6 weeks of that, the results were like this;

My waist is 30", my weight remained at 77KG yet I leaned out. Good thing! But my jeans, the legs...were tighter. Fat burns, but leg grows.

After 3 weeks of 20 rep squats, it becomes easier. A lot easier, so much so that you just feel like finishing it quickly. The set drops from 2 minutes to about 1 minute 10 seconds for all 20 repetitions. But on week 5, (breaks out old journal...) I did 120KG x 20 and suddenly it became that much harder. 122.5KG was insane. 125KG was easy again. It seems that at certain weeks/weights, the body has a hard time handling it, but readapts again.

Your food intake, that definitely will go up. You'll just eat anything and everything.

I would've continued with the 20 reppers till I hit 140KG, but I started Olympic weightlifting again, so there was no time to waste doing 20 rep squats. The best part was really, the melting away of fat.
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so you're saying that it's very good for cutting but less effective for bulking?

oh, how many set of 20 reppers did you do? do you do others compound movements as suggested, like presses, deads, rows and pulls?

i've read up somewhere that one shouldn't do deads more than 2 or 3 times in a week. is this relevant?

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post Jan 3 2009, 06:32 PM

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hmm.. i understand back muscles are the slowest to recover. let's say i were going to follow this program exactly as proposed, which includes 3 times of DL per week, which every workout day consist of 1 x 15 reps, is it okay?

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post Jan 3 2009, 09:04 PM

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cool. that clears all my doubts. i guess normal 3x5 deads are good enough for me at this moment. by the way, i'm doing normal deadlift just like the one suggested in Starting Strength. i believe it's not stiff legged DL
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post Jan 5 2009, 01:24 AM

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wtf? freaking 3 sets of 18 reps?
i'd say you'd go better with 3x5x45kg or 3x10x37kg. strength-wise and size-wise.
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post Jan 23 2009, 01:35 PM

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20 reppers are da bomb. squatted 40kg together with yeah_guyz 2 days ago, and i'm still not walking properly today.

one of the reason is i dont eat properly these days

 

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