Comments on: Developing Strength: Squats

By: Theodore Kruczek

Theodore Kruczek — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:40:00 +0000

Cardio[vascular] exercises are designed to work the heart. It is unlikely that you will be able to raise your heart rate to 60-80% of your max heart rate while doing squats, but if you can – then yes – it would be cardio. Burpees are an exercise that may help with getting the heart rate up and making it a more cardio exercise.

By: Krzysztof Śliwiński

Krzysztof Śliwiński — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:03:00 +0000

OK, following your advice i tried it today with 70,73,77,74, Max, 60 breaks. This one was more difficult, in the last round i managed to do only 76, and then i was exhausted So i think next week i’ll try
72, 77, 82, 79, max 60s breaks
79, 84, 86, 84, max 90s
84, 88, 92, 89, max 120s
I was thinking, that maybe i could make my legs strong enough so that i could do squats as cardio – today it lasted almost 15 minutes. What do you think about this idea?

By: Theodore Kruczek

Theodore Kruczek — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 06:13:00 +0000

Assuming you are talking about week 6, these exercises will be much more doable for some people than others. Increase the reps by 20% and reduce the break between sets until the challenge becomes more challenging. This was designed to help people get into better shape – not create the next ultimate fighter. Please let me know at what point (after increasing the reps) that you found it challenging. All the best.

By: Krzysztof Śliwiński

Krzysztof Śliwiński — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:52:00 +0000

Hmm… I have been able to do the reps for the last day. Apparently, even though i do not exercise regularly (I do not train any martial arts), venturing on a few tower (churches, castles) during holidays and having my 3 year old son ask somewhere in the middle to carry him further (he’s about 19kg – over 40 # if i calculate correctly), was enough of conditioning for this challenge