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I envision people standing there doing squats all day churning out tickets and selling them/asking for change.

by glomph 13y ago

grinich 13y ago
I wonder what would happen if a city's homeless population suddenly became ultra fit?
DanBC 13y ago
See also "The Heavy Lifting Mule Women of Melilla". If you can carry goods over the border between Melilla and Morocco on your back you don't have to pay import duties. So, women queue up to carry the goods over for you, for a small fee. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24706863 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24706863
vidarh 13y ago
A year or so ago, there was a thread on r/fitness about this group of people who had tried to do 1000 kettlebell swings a day for 10 days, and it turned to a discussion of whether it would even be possible to do this for squats or other exercises. So I decided to try. I managed to put in about 400 a day, and I think I reached 600 one of the days. I'm an amateur power lifter. My squat max is about 190kg, and I do about 80 or so weighted reps on my squat days, ranging from 70kg on the lightest warmup set up to about 160kg x 5, and 5 sets of 10 at 80kg. That feels like nothing compared to doing 400 body weight squats per day. The soreness and burn was just terrible, but worst was the demotivating effect of knowing you have still more sets (I varied my sets between 25 and 100 reps; ~35-50 seemed to be optimal for me in getting as many done as quickly as possible) I'd like to try a high rep program again (probably not that high) for a few weeks to see how it works during a cut, as that was the original purpose of the kettlebell experiment mentioned, but the brutal effect on motivation is not something I look forward to.
- kitd 13y ago
  To be fair, as a powerlifter, I suspect you are highly adapted to maximising peak power, rather than prolonged power over 400 - 1000 squats. I would think that anything above 100 largely becomes an endurance exercise which requires a very different adaptation. As a 48yo rower, I can do IRO 300 squats before feeling the burn too badly, but then I have been doing endurance-type training for the past 35 years. I have known lightweight rowers who were pretty much unlimited in the number they could do in 1 hit. Their only limit was needing to eat/sleep/etc!
- chrisgd 13y ago
  Jaromir Jagr, a famous hockey player has said he started doing 100 squats a day when he is 13 and now he is one of the best skaters, even at 40. Just interesting fact

I envision people standing there doing squats all day churning out tickets and selling them/asking for change.

by glomph 13y ago

I envision people standing there doing squats all day churning out tickets and selling them/asking for change.

grinich 13y ago

I wonder what would happen if a city's homeless population suddenly became ultra fit?

DanBC 13y ago

See also "The Heavy Lifting Mule Women of Melilla". If you can carry goods over the border between Melilla and Morocco on your back you don't have to pay import duties. So, women queue up to carry the goods over for you, for a small fee. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24706863 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24706863

vidarh 13y ago

A year or so ago, there was a thread on r/fitness about this group of people who had tried to do 1000 kettlebell swings a day for 10 days, and it turned to a discussion of whether it would even be possible to do this for squats or other exercises. So I decided to try. I managed to put in about 400 a day, and I think I reached 600 one of the days. I'm an amateur power lifter. My squat max is about 190kg, and I do about 80 or so weighted reps on my squat days, ranging from 70kg on the lightest warmup set up to about 160kg x 5, and 5 sets of 10 at 80kg. That feels like nothing compared to doing 400 body weight squats per day. The soreness and burn was just terrible, but worst was the demotivating effect of knowing you have still more sets (I varied my sets between 25 and 100 reps; ~35-50 seemed to be optimal for me in getting as many done as quickly as possible) I'd like to try a high rep program again (probably not that high) for a few weeks to see how it works during a cut, as that was the original purpose of the kettlebell experiment mentioned, but the brutal effect on motivation is not something I look forward to.

kitd 13y ago
To be fair, as a powerlifter, I suspect you are highly adapted to maximising peak power, rather than prolonged power over 400 - 1000 squats. I would think that anything above 100 largely becomes an endurance exercise which requires a very different adaptation. As a 48yo rower, I can do IRO 300 squats before feeling the burn too badly, but then I have been doing endurance-type training for the past 35 years. I have known lightweight rowers who were pretty much unlimited in the number they could do in 1 hit. Their only limit was needing to eat/sleep/etc!
chrisgd 13y ago
Jaromir Jagr, a famous hockey player has said he started doing 100 squats a day when he is 13 and now he is one of the best skaters, even at 40. Just interesting fact