Originally Posted by
Jason Donaldson
Yeah - I get it. About half a lifetime ago, I tried 20-rep squats + breathing pullovers and other such stuff from a collection of 60's magazine articles, for the same reason. I'm thankful CrossFit wasn't around back then, or I'm sure I would have been hooked by that, too. More than once, I've done multiple drop sets and forced reps on the leg extension until I couldn't walk, thinking I was being hard... I was all about the challenge and the (mental) intensity, and thought that those methods were where it was at.
Maybe I was hard, more likely I was stupid, but what I never got was strong.
I'm in my fifties now, and just hit a PR squat at 485 last week, but it was not through TM or volume days, and it sure wasn't through high reps.