Sorinex (page on Instagram) puts an annual squatober. Our own @Hizzie has done it before. This will be my first year and I’m pretty stoked. Hoping to recruit a few others into it and recording our experiences in this thread.
Sorinex (page on Instagram) puts an annual squatober. Our own @Hizzie has done it before. This will be my first year and I’m pretty stoked. Hoping to recruit a few others into it and recording our experiences in this thread.
Link to the official page: https://instagram.com/sorinex_squato...d=wbre7jvih9vj
Last years Squatober and Deadcember are both posted on the page so you can see what you’d be getting yourself into. It’s challenging but fun. I went from inconsistent workouts and a 315 squat to loving the gym again and a 405 squat in just one month.
Here was my PR Party:
http://instagram.com/p/BpjovYYnT3x/
I honestly thought from the thread title that this was going to be an "Occupy" type movement where slacktivists were encouraged to squat on private property for the month because, "You can't own property, man."
ETA: Is there a broad Squatober goal? Like reach a weight, rep max, or is it just communal get your squat on?
Last edited by RevolverRob; 08-28-2019 at 03:22 PM.
Decent week for me.
New PRs.
Dead lift -385
squat -345
I’m going to have to seriously consider this. In fact I’m still at the squat rack. After hitting 345 I dropped to 225 and did 10. Now doing two sets of 135 x 20 to finish off .
Squatting sucks but it’s a great workout .
Do you guys prefer low bar or high bar squats?
Cool idea. Gonna just be business as usual for me, since I’m regularly hauling my old carcass in for the same program that @SouthNarc posted several years back in the lifting thread, only taking time off to get surgery in December:
"Man honestly it's pretty simple. I squat on Monday, bench on Wednesday, and Deadlift on Friday ideally. I did nothing but those three lifts for the first year. Volume is basically a four week program with 6x10, 4x8, 3x6, 3x3 and repeat the next month..."
-CD
I’m happy to say that I hit a couple of summer goals (bench, squat). Dead is way behind, because, surgery, but I’m going into the academic year with no injuries and a free gym membership with Mrs Sidheshooter, so things will probably pan out OK for my strength plan by the end of next summer.
I’ve added lat pull/pull ups and a bunch of cardio to the above CD plan. I’m in the second best shape of my life at this point (having flex time to exercise 6xweek in the summer helps).
This morning was 6x10 bench day, incidentally. What a grind. 6x10 week is the worst week in the month, IMHO, and bench is easier than dead or squat.
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB