Goal Achieved: Squats

When I wrote my 2014 Goals blog post I didn’t list all the goals I have for this year or it would have been quite a long post however one of my shorter term goals was to increase my squat weight for 8 reps by 10kg by 30 April 2014, which doesn’t sound like a lot but was a 16% increase and I was already doing above my body weight.

I’m pleased to say that even with my lovely (insert sarcasm here) injury I still managed to knock it out of the park, I managed to do a 70kg squat for 8 reps which is considerably higher than my body weight so I’m super proud of myself!

I had decided I was going to see how things went and attempt the 70kg after a 60kg and then an attempt at 65kg (which I had only one once before prior to injuring myself), and then I had the biggest blonde moment, went on auto pilot and racked up what I thought was 65kg which after I had done the 5 reps I was planned to do and de-racked (the squat racks were busy so the b/f was my racker and un-racker 😉 – Which I don’t recommend unless the other person knows exactly what they’re doing and can actually lift that weight confidently.) The b/f then gave me a look, like what on earth are you doing and look at what you’ve done, I looked down and realised that instead of adding a total of 5kg to the bar I’d added 5kg both side – no wonder it felt so friggen heavy!

Well now that I’d done 70kg, I’d have to do it again for my last set. And since I managed the programmed set of 5 I decided I’d try and get the 8 in the next set so I could meet my goal  – SUCCESS!

And to top it all off I managed to do it about 6 weeks before the date I had originally set! Now it’s time to set a new goal…

Have you ever added the wrong weight to the bar and done more than you expected to?
Have you smashed any of your goals this year as yet?