Want a squat variation that challenges your entire body to powerfully improve without pounding yourself into submission and boring the hell out of you?
But be warned – You will be exposed to simple, yet productively challenging methods that will contradict what most well meaning fitness “experts” tout and the hum drum results the fitness herd eternally experience.
If you are training to become the undisputed strongest man/woman in the universe, pull trains with your teeth or leap tall buildings in a single bound – you may need more specialized training than what I teach and demonstrate.
You will also need some highly scarce and unique physical genetic gifts most don’t have to reach these types of elite goals that conveniently fail to get mentioned in our “anybody can do anything” society.
However, if you want to build solid strength, improve mobility, crush many calories, keep your joints happy and pain free, tighten up that jiggly jello ass and become highly capable in everyday life – You have come to the right place to powerfully improve.
Here’s that squat workout demo:
Performance Tips
Take two kettlebells and place them at opposite ends of your training area.
Choose a challenging weight depending on your fitness level and how fresh your body feels on your training day
I like to contrast the weights. I’m using a 35 pound (16kg) and a 53 pound (24kg) kettlebell in this demo. I will scale the weights up if I want to ramp up the intensity depending on how strong I feel on my training days. It’s important to listen to your body and how much it can handle. Some days you feel like you can move the earth and other days you may be dragging a bit in a physical fog. So know when to push harder and when to back off the intensity.
A round is comprised of doing 3 goblet squats, jogging to the far kettlebell and doing 3 more goblet squats and walking back for your active rest between rounds.
I will also substitute sandbags in place of the kettlebells with this workout and perform front loaded squats.
Set the clock for 10 minutes and see how many quality rounds you can complete.
Why These Workouts Work
Training like this will layer many movement and foundational fitness principals in one relatively brief and challenging session.
You never come to a complete static rest at any point during the workout.
Instead, you are practicing active rest between squats by light jogging between sets and walking between rounds.
This really ramps up your metabolism for improved fitness gains and helps alleviate dizziness some may experience when coming to a complete stop after an exercise set.
You are picking weight off the ground and putting it back down again each set
This is an added metabolic bonus as well as a chance to practice hip mobility and shoring up your core power and control.
You focus more on total rounds than exercise repetitions
Training in this manner allows you to bank a lot of total quality fitness work as those low rep sets powerfully add up without killing your body or draining your motivation.
So spice up your workouts and get some solid results with this squat workout – And always give yourself permission to succeed in all endeavors you attempt!
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I’m Mark Mellohusky- an often barefoot eternal student of health and physical culture who will not go quietly into the sunset since I have learned how to age gracefully by adopting sane eating strategies, staying strong and lean, moving well and pain-free and conquering nasty fat. All without spending hours haunting gyms doing hours of sappy low value media endorsed exercises.
I don’t use drugs – performance or otherwise, Don’t gulp down questionable supplements and I Don’t train insane seeking pain like others who pound their joints to dust and rob their life quality.
Treat people and situations for what they are and not how you want them to be. This will keep you happy and sane!
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