lbdb18’s BodyBlog

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!!

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