I remember reading something years ago about how Arnold and The Boyz used to carry a bunch of equipment, weights, bitches, beer and whatever els to the forest and have 'Midnight Squat Parties'.
It gave me an idea. I followed suit and rounded up a couple dudes and had a 'Midnight Squat Party' myself back in 2004. (oh, brother! 
)
I made sure I had bananas, protein powders, creatine and some Haterade. The goal was 1000 reps with 135lbs.
There was 3 of us so we agreed we would each do 100 sets of 10 reps.
It took us until about 5am but we did it. At some points it felt numb after a while. I remember we went to a neaby 24/7 Greek style diner and ate platters of steak and pancakes and were almost falling asleep at the table.
That morning I slept and woke up 13hrs later. I was so stiff and sore I was crippled until Tuesday and had to load on Tylenol, Ibuprofren and whatever els.
Needless to say it didn't put an inch on my quads. My quads still suck.
- Block!
Take the rules and throw them out of the window, they are of no use here! With
those out of the way, I’d like to take you back to a time when insanity was sanity,
and we thrived on it!
This Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger is from 1975
"I finally arrived at the idea of shocking the muscles. So once a week I took a
training partner and drove out into the country with the weights. We limited
ourselves to one exercise for a particular body part. I remember for the first day we
carried 250 pounds into the forest and did squats for two hours straight. I began by
doing 20 repetitions with 250 pounds; then my partner did whatever he could. Then
it was my turn again. We ended up doing something like 55 sets of squats each. The
last hour seemed endless. But it worked. Our thighs pumped up like balloons. That
first day we gave our thigh muscles such a shock that we couldn't walk right for a
week and each of us put something like an eighth or a quarter of an inch on our
thighs; they just blew up. They had no chance to survive except to grow. We made it
a regular thing. We brought girls out there to cook. We made a fire outdoors and
turned the whole thing into a little contest. We worked hard, but we had a good
time. After the muscle-shocking sessions, we drank wine and beer and got drunk and
carried on like the old-time weightlifters sometimes it be came pure insanity."
What Arnold displayed here was the mentality of a warrior. However it went beyond
this, well beyond! The man had an undying passion for this sport, and it shown
through in perhaps an unmatched way. This story has always fascinated me and I
have actually applied it to myself in many ways. So much so, that I developed a "
modern day “ Austrian Blitz! My main objective was to take a weight training
session and turn it into a fun and challenging event!
