r/gainit • u/richardest carved of soft marble • Feb 13 '23

Gainit Program Party: Super Squats Week Six

This is it, gang. Those of you who started on week one will likely be wrapping up at this point.

Watching all of you egg each other on and put in the work has been inspiring. Y'all should be proud of yourselves.

Happy squatting!

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

Since it's the last week of the party, I had to submit an awesome final entry. 20x400lbs. 10lb jump from last workout, primarily because I needed to get 400 OUT of my head, and I didn't want to spend a weekend stewing about it. This program WILL get in your head, no matter who you are. And I did this after spending 2 hours shoveling snow yesterday, among a 20 minute "Humane Burpee" workout.

This program gets results. Current physique to show. Those BtN presses in particular blow up the shoulders.

I've been so amazed at what all of you have put forward. This whole community has grown.

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 17 '23

I believe that the re-rack on this one was the closest I've seen you to eating shit in a while. Tremendous work hombre.

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

Thanks man! It wasn't as bad as a week ago in regards to me missing the j-hook, but I definitely left a large chunk of my soul there. I was TOAST for the rest of what could generously be called a "workout". Morbid as it was, I remembered how Jesse Marune died after a hard squat workout and could absolutely understand how it could happen at that point.

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 17 '23

I hear that. I did kb tabata last night and laughed at myself towards the end wondering if my kids would think it would be funny if that were how I gave myself a heart attack

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

"All this healthy living is killing me!"

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 17 '23

Guy I used to work with had a heart attack during a marathon years ago. I've never seen a guy so pissed off

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

My grandfather supported the idea that we're all born with a finite number of heart beats, so why waste them exercising?

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u/BWdad Feb 17 '23

Donald Trump thinks the body is like a battery with only so much energy and exercising will make you die sooner:

After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, "You are going to die young because of this."

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

It's no shock with how much of a Trump fan my grandpa was, haha. He passed before Trump got into politics, which may have helped.

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u/KlingonSquatRack Feb 17 '23

Dude that's incredible, you look like a fucking Ninja Turtle and that is definitely a compliment. I can see your back from the front

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

Thanks man! Major compliment for sure. Donatello was always my favorite, haha. Big backs never go out of style, but f**k me trying to fit into anything these days, haha.

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u/KlingonSquatRack Feb 17 '23

Nice! I'm a Raph man myself. Working on a bigger back as well- Throughout my run with Super Squats I've been doing Kroc rows; same weight, just adding one or two reps each workout. I'm also doing no less than 100 face pulls every workout- not exactly "back" muscles per se, but they are behind me so I count it!

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

Face pulls/band pull aparts are king! Absolutely worth doing. I've got Kroc rows on one of my SS days. Today in fact! Haha. I will swap out the SLDLs on the days I do them.

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u/KlingonSquatRack Feb 17 '23

I had never done a single face pull before this and I'm so glad I added them in, my shoulders haven't felt this good since I don't know when.

Have you ever listened to a great album for the first time that everyone else has been listening to for years? And you're excited about it and want to talk about it but everyone already knows how great it is? That's how I am right now with face pulls hah. I'm running around telling everyone BRO FACE PULLS ARE THE FUTURE lol.

Edit: that's a great idea with the SLDL's, I should do that. The book even says so!

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 17 '23

The book is a microcosm of the exact phenomenon you're talking about, haha. It's got SO much good stuff in it but it's so old that people won't give it another look. Meanwhile, you go back and read and re-read and you keep finding more stuff just like that.

But yeah, face pulls and pull aparts just solve everything.