Fitness - Back Squats - Farmers Walk - 8/27

This morning's WOD was the dreaded 20 rep squat day. The goal is to pick a weight that you can squat 10 reps of but that you wouldn't be able to get 11 reps. Then squat it for 20 reps. It's designed to massively break down walls in your strength, mentally and physically.

My hammies are still trashed from a couple days ago and my glutes as well. So I decided to not max out and go light on this 20 rep squat effort.

WOD: 1 set, 20 reps max effort squat
1x20 - 100Kg (220.5#)

Even though this is pretty light for my 20 reps max, I still felt the burn almost right away. Which was a sign of how tight/sore my hamstrings, glutes and quads were. So I'm glad I decided to tone it down. Reps 15-20 were still pretty tough though.

Last time we did the 20 rep squat max I used 120Kg (264.5#) which was probably one of the hardest things I've had to endure at CrossFit so far. I got to rep 11 and was done, I really don't know how I got the last 9 reps. I think I blacked out or repressed the memory of that day.

After the squats we did 3 short, really heavy farmer's walks. We stayed in the gym and walked from one end to the other and back. If I had to guess I'd say it was probably about 30 yards.

Finisher: Heavy farmer's walk
3x60 yards (down & back) - 128Kg (282.2#)

Calories burned (squats & farmer's walks): 314
Calories burned (bike to gym, squats & walks, bike to work): 976

This was a fun little finisher. I ended up holding two, 32Kg (70.5#) kettle bell's in each hand.

I'm glad I lightened the load today instead of pushing my body and next time we do 20 rep max squat hopefully I'll be fresh enough to improve on my 120kg PR.