Thread: This Kid Does 104 Reps of Squats...Legit or Stupid?

Originally Posted by IRONbrother00

http://muscleprodigy.com/videos.php?...RL=vASO7y93ndE

What do you guys think?

Same part of the brain that leads to turned up collars, loud cars and motorcycles, and general douche-dom. The ego.

some people have physiologies that are best suited for endurance. his body is probably able to regenerate ATP very rapidly and buffer lactic acid at very high amounts.

it looks like 135, i dont think now i could do it. thats a burn and a half. its not the weight its the reps. thats impressive to me. very strict to as much as i watched he was great form.

Originally Posted by Merkaba

Same part of the brain that leads to turned up collars, loud cars and motorcycles, and general douche-dom. The ego.

no popped collars and motorcycles, but whats wrong with loud cars, i got 2 of em!

I love loud motorcycles. American made motorcycles. Wouldn't mind a new Challenger or Camaro, either.

I have 3 loud American motorcycles. And I only pop my collar on Tuesdays.

Originally Posted by Merkaba

Same part of the brain that leads to turned up collars, loud cars and motorcycles, and general douche-dom. The ego.

What I think? I think I know the reason he has bony ass legs.

What's the point?

104 reps? wow..how can that person do 104 reps in a row without getting bored? I get bored even doing more than 15 reps of anything.

Very impressive stuff, that takes guts.

Originally Posted by gtbmed

What's the point?

What's the point of Olympic lifting, power lifting or any kind of lifting? I'm assuming he wanted to challenge himself.

Did no one notice his legs? They look like sticks. I would imagine it has something to do with his training methods.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Did no one notice his legs? They look like sticks. I would imagine it has something to do with his training methods.

Yeah he is a skinny bastard for sure.

Great work if that's what you're training for.

I'm not.

for sure he start from maybe 10 or 15

i know a kid make 200 push abs ..

i think it is ok if he was train from little to more that is good

I am not so sure about this form. The backs of his heels at time tends to come up and his knees start pointing inward. It has to be some magazine crap. I read years ago that there was a bicep workout that lasted 11hours and would guarantee 1" on your arms. Yea, I am sure someone tried that too.

Not knowing the context of "why", just for what its worth, his form is decent and its cool he can do it.

I trained w/ one guy back in the early 90s (he was an Olympic level sprinter from somewhere in the Caribbean) who had me doing 4 sets of 200 reps on the leg press, w/ no weight on the sled. It certainly kicked my ass and took a while to get conditioned for it. Generally I find for legs I need to do reps in the range of 10+ to feel like I'm getting something out of it. 20+ to really feel like I'm working. This counts for reasonably high weights to - e.g. 285 lb box squats - takes me a couple reps to find a good placing for my feet and a couple more to get the groove (tweaky knees) , so right there I'm at 5-6 reps just getting into it. Last leg day I did a couple warm up sets (135 lb tends to be my good warmup weight for all the std lifts) and 4 sets of 275/9 (10th rep I always seemed to poop out, and no spotter so didn't get too far ahead of myself.)

i dont understand the question... legit or stupid.. whats wrong with a guy doing that many reps? maybe its a compitition and he wanted to win.. maybe the guy constantly does 5 sets of 5 and someone came up with whoever does the most reps with x amount of weight wind $100.00.
steve reeves use to train 1/2 his bodyweight for 15 minutes on leg presses. if he weighted 250 he put on 125, but did the leg press non stop for15 minutes. he was a smart man that knew what he was doing. lots of different ways to train. nothing is in stone.
i was just sitting outside recovering from a workout reading an old magazine and in there arnold said he never trained to failure.. then in another article, arnold says at certain times of the year he would train to failure.
nothing in stone.

Originally Posted by stepaukas

i dont understand the question... legit or stupid.. whats wrong with a guy doing that many reps? maybe its a compitition and he wanted to win.. maybe the guy constantly does 5 sets of 5 and someone came up with whoever does the most reps with x amount of weight wind $100.00.
steve reeves use to train 1/2 his bodyweight for 15 minutes on leg presses. if he weighted 250 he put on 125, but did the leg press non stop for15 minutes. he was a smart man that knew what he was doing. lots of different ways to train. nothing is in stone.
i was just sitting outside recovering from a workout reading an old magazine and in there arnold said he never trained to failure.. then in another article, arnold says at certain times of the year he would train to failure.
nothing in stone.

Yah, but why doesn't this kid put that balls to the wall effort in to a heavier set. I all I see in that video is someone putting in a whole lot of effort for pretty much no return. I understand using 50-100 reps for calfs, but for squats that's just counter-productive and dangerous.

Originally Posted by cshea2

Yah, but why doesn't this kid put that balls to the wall effort in to a heavier set. I all I see in that video is someone putting in a whole lot of effort for pretty much no return. I understand using 50-100 reps for calfs, but for squats that's just counter-productive and dangerous.

Depends on how you look at it, we don't know what he is trying to accomplish by training like that, so we don't know if there is "no return" for his effort.

I'll tell you one thing, training like that increasing your mental toughness. In a sport like weight lifting, mental strength is just as important as physical.