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When I first thought about attempting a 100 rep squat, it was a joke, but the more I thought about it, I wanted to do it.  I wanted to use 135, which I figured I couldn’t do 100 straight reps.  So I decided to do rest pause sets till I reached the magic number (resting 20 seconds then doing as many as could get before resting for another 20 seconds).  After warming up with leg ext. and leg curls, I proceeded to the squat rack and did a set of ten.  As I got under the weight my heart began to race in anticipation of the pain I was about to encounter.  I started squatting and thought, ah this isn’t gonna be quite as hard as I thought.  I got to 50 before taking my first break, my heart was thumping and my legs began to burn.  After a quick 20 second break the next 20 were getting hard and I still couldn’t catch my breath.  So I was sitting at 70 down and I honestly didn’t know if I was gonna be able to finish, my legs were burning, my arms started to go numb, and my stomach felt like I was gonna see the chicken I ate for dinner.  With my workout partner screaming at me not to ****ing quit, I get to 85, before my legs almost collapse.  Home stretch, 15 more and then its over, the pain in my legs are unexplainable.  So when I finally reach 100, I rack the weight and fall to the floor.  It’s hard to breath; I’m covered in sweat, and honestly can’t believe my body could take that.  That’s probably one of the hardest thing I’ve ever done in the gym, and you ought to have seen the pump in my legs, they were huge.

After that I thought I would give my quads a rest, so we hit hamstrings with seated leg curls, straight leg deads, and lying db leg curls.  To finish up legs we did 3 sets of walking lunges and hit a super set for calves (seat calve raise w/ standing calve raises).  I was extremely satisfied with my performance on the first leg workout of the week.  I will go heavy on Saturday and make them things blow up.  I got Bis, forearms, and abs this morning and chest/tris tonight.  Give those 100 reps squats a try, its pretty fun!!

Another busy week, still managed to hit everything except shoulders twice this week.  I’m starting to move more weight than ever, amazingly without the aid of any supplements.  I’m gonna try not taking anything, for the next month, then start a big stack.  Hopefully that will shock new growth to my body and maybe put on another 6 pounds so that I can get to 200.  This morning I hit back and bis and had a really strong workout.  Very pleased with my Deadlifts and I’m finally developing some lats.  I have one more week of this 3-5 rep range working sets and then I have a pump week which should be fun.
So I was attempting to scare my roommate, by telling him that I had the hardest leg workout of our lives planed for Friday.  He thought there was no way I could out do the day when we squatted for an hour, but I did.  I jokingly said, “we are gonna do 3 sets of 100 reps squats with 135.  He said there was no way he could make it to 100, my response, “we will do rest pause sets until we reach it.  He seriously looked at me and said I’m done and headed for the gym door.  I told him I was just kidding, but in the back of my mind thinking could it be done?  So this Tuesday, I’m gonna try to see if I can do it.  Wish me luck and I will let you know how every thing turns out.  

Ok, I know I was going to start this whole new training split and workout that I found in the Muscle & Fitness, but it was leg day and there was no way in hell I was only gonna do squats and leg press for quads.  The workout called for 2 working sets of 3-5 reps on both squats and leg press and then move to hams.  So instead of that I did 5 sets of squats with a drop set of 20, then leg press for 4 sets, leg extensions, Db lying hamstring curls, stiff leg dead lifts super-seted with walking lunges (following the last set of walking lunges I held a wall squat for 1 minute and 21 seconds) and finally one set of slow controlled front squats on the Smith Machine to really fry those babies.  Now that’s a leg workout!  I had the intensions of following the program, but as soon as I got that BB on my back, the adrenaline just kicks in and I was ready to annihilate my wheels.  I have shoulders and traps this morning and since I don’t have any school today, I’m gonna do back and bis tonight.  Till next time, train hard.

So the new workout split and training began yesterday and I think it went pretty well.  It was chest and tris and the rep range was much lower than I was used to (3-5 for working sets).  Here was the workout: Incline Db Press, Flat Db Presses, Hammer Wide Chest Press, and Incline Flyes for Chest.  As far as Triceps go it was: Cable Pressdowns to warm up, Close Grip Bench, Wt. Dips, and finally Skull Crushers.  At the end of the workout I was pretty pumped, but not nearly as much as usual; I expected that because the reps are so low.  All in all I think I liked the change up, and I feel that my body just needs something to shock some new growth.  So I have 2 more weeks of these low rep things so let’s see how it goes.

So its Friday night and I just finished watching Invincible, a very inspiring movie.  These past weeks have been busy as hell for me, considering I didn’t even have time to post any of my usual workout blogs.  Luckily I have still managed to keep my intensity at an all time high, and have been able to get some great workouts in.  I have legs tomorrow morning, then starting Monday I’m going to try a totally new workout split.  I will be training every body part twice in one week, and my reps are gonna get lowered to around 6-8.  I just feel like my training was starting to get a little stale, so I figured what the hell lets try this out.  I found it in an old Muscle & Fitness, and its pretty interesting.  It’s a 12-week program, where you do 3 weeks hard and heavy, mainly BB movements (back to the basics), then on weeks 4, 8, and 12; those are pump weeks and you only train each body part once in a week and its higher reps, like 12-15.  So wish me luck, and I will let everyone know how Monday’s workout goes.