I’ve been talking a lot about exploration, play, and eschewing rigid objectives this week so I thought it would be a good time for another weekend workout challenge.
A few weeks ago I had a deadlift challenge that a lot of people had fun with, so I figured we could do the same with squats.
My buddy and fellow gym owner Marshall Roy had the same idea about a week ago and filmed a great video of 38(!) squat variations that might give you some ideas, click over to the video here:
The idea is to figure out how many different ways and implements you can find to squat with. Marshall came up with a stunning 38 variations and he honestly didn’t even scratch the surface.
One of my favorite “weird” squat variations is squatting with a rotated upper body. Imagine trying to squat down and put your chest onto just one of your quads. It feels fantastic, usually especially in one direction more than the other.
Like I said last time if you came up with 20 variations and you did 5 reps of each you’d have done a hundred squats in all different forms and I’d wager you’d get a pretty good, and fun, workout.
Let me know how many you come up with and what you experience.
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