100-rep squats?

[Hulkotron]

That story about the Iowa football players recently has me intrigued.  Has anyone ever tried a 100-rep squat program?

Today is a leg day for me, I think I will give it a shot.  I'll start with just the bar and see if I can even do that.

[The Showstoppa]

That story about the Iowa football players recently has me intrigued.  Has anyone ever tried a 100-rep squat program?

Today is a leg day for me, I think I will give it a shot.  I'll start with just the bar and see if I can even do that.

A lot of athletes in the past did a ton of body weight squats.

[Tito24]

i already get tired thinking of it.

[crownshep]

Go for 150 reps.

[BB]

Honestly they're more of a test of will than anything else, I have found high, high rep work to work well for rehabing injuries, getting blood into the area, etc.... A fun way to do them is in a long rest-pause block, like #45/20, #95/20, #135/20, 185/20, etc.... pausing to load the bar, and take a few breaths.

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[Zach Trowbridge]

It wasn't 100 rep sets, it was 10x10.  The S&C coach had them do GVT with 50% of their max, then pushed the prowler for about 30 minutes.  Big fucking deal.

[Game Time]

Try a widow maker first. 20 reps on your last set of squats. It is deadly, you need to be mentally tough and really push yourself.

After you complete that you will recosider 100 reps

[Tito24]

[funk51]

That story about the Iowa football players recently has me intrigued.  Has anyone ever tried a 100-rep squat program?

Today is a leg day for me, I think I will give it a shot.  I'll start with just the bar and see if I can even do that.

tom platz was noted for squatting by the clock like for 5 minutes straight, and i heard he had pretty decent legs.

[Tito24]

Destroy another foetus now

We don't like children anyhow.

[Heywood]

I've done 100 rep squats.  I approached it like a "Nautilus cycle" type training.

I'll also say that I'm "good" at high reps, in the sense that I kind of get into that "zone," which helps.

[Master Blaster]

It wasn't 100 rep sets, it was 10x10.  The S&C coach had them do GVT with 50% of their max, then pushed the prowler for about 30 minutes.  Big fucking deal.

Yeah, cause GVT is so "easy" 

[Hulkotron]

Yeah, cause GVT is so "easy" 

Haha, "Zach Trowbridge" is surely a beast of a man!

I only got to 64 before I had to stop from an explosive lower back pump.  My quads could have kept going though.  That was tough!  I think I'll try to train it up.  If anything it was a great warmup for the rest of my workout.

[Zach Trowbridge]

Yeah, cause GVT is so "easy" 

I never said it was easy.  But for how big of a deal the media is making this workout to be, you'd think it consisted of squatting a FedEx truck in a swimming pool full of piranhas with a flank steak attached to your penis.  GVT is hard but it's not "spend 5 days in the hospital" hard.

[Hulkotron]

I never said it was easy.  But for how big of a deal the media is making this workout to be, you'd think it consisted of squatting a FedEx truck in a swimming pool full of piranhas with a flank steak attached to your penis.  GVT is hard but it's not "spend 5 days in the hospital" hard.

Yeah man those 13 players with rhabdo are just a bunch of pussies.

[Zach Trowbridge]

1x100 allows you to work very hard without overtraining - one continuous set.

10x10 will cause overtraining (IMO) because you're approaching it as 10 separate sets and going heavy enough on each.  This is going to be tougher on the joints, back, hips, etc.  You're going to go quite a big heavier than 1x100. Way too much.

GVT is supposed to be done for short blocks only, so you won't overtrain on it.  If somebody is a retard and does it for their entire program for months on end then they'll train themselves into a state of stupid, but a couple of workouts (or in this case, ONE workout), can be a good stimulus to get stronger.

[Zach Trowbridge]

Yeah man those 13 players with rhabdo are just a bunch of pussies.

There is no way it was just the workout that put them in the hospital.  Have you ever done GVT?  You'll get sore and it'll hurt for about a week.  But there is no way that it puts you in the hospital without something else going on.

[closeline]

50 x 225and  25x315  was enough for me to puke in the lokker room

[Devon97]

There is no way it was just the workout that put them in the hospital.  Have you ever done GVT?  You'll get sore and it'll hurt for about a week.  But there is no way that it puts you in the hospital without something else going on.

Z,

As a former collegiate D1A player in a BCS conf and collegiate strength coach, I can assure you that 10x10 squats + prowler sprints would literaly destroy some players.

Think about how de-conditioned these guys were from no training + drinking and eating like shit for the last 3-4 weeks.

Considering it was the first week back from the 3-4 weeks off from the Bowl game and to be thrown in the fire like that.


Also wouldnt be surprised if the 50% of 1RM was greatly inflated resulting in a much higher load on the squats.

[Heywood]

GVT is supposed to be done for short blocks only, so you won't overtrain on it.  If somebody is a retard and does it for their entire program for months on end then they'll train themselves into a state of stupid, but a couple of workouts (or in this case, ONE workout), can be a good stimulus to get stronger.

I understand that one workout isn't going to kill you.

Nevertheless, it still takes a series of workouts on a consistent program in which you slowly go in weight +/or reps to get lasting improvements.

[CalvinH]

I repped out your mom.

[mcluvin]

     The 100 rep squat workout was used in the 80's by Tom Platz and others who dared to try it. I did it on several occasions with my training partners and it is the ONLY movement you will need for thighs on leg day. You start by slowly warming up with 135-225-315 etc. and continue working up slowly with warm up sets. All you want to do is get some blood in there, don't break down any tissue cause you're going to need those fibers. We use to load the bar with 25 pound plates back then and our set would start with something like 395 which is 14-25lb plates (7 each side) and the bar.  The victim would start squating and maybe get 8 reps to failure with the initial weight? The spotters would then pull a 25 off each side and the victim would continue to squat until reaching failure again and off would come another 50 pounds. From the initial first rep with 395 your spotters start counting from 1 until you finish at 100 reps.

   Another version is the 10 minute squat. You start the set again with a very taxing weight for 6-8 reps and weight is continuously pulled off until ten minutes have elapsed. The problem with the ten minute squat is you will stand for long periods of time trying to kill the 10 minutes. With the 100 rep squat you keep moving trying to get it finished.

[magicuser]

sounds like a right bugger

[FREAKgeek]

It's good to do once in a while, but you need variation in reps and weight, etc. Too easy to burn out with this type of stuff

[Nirvana]