u/J-from-PandT

Moments ago at a bodyweight of about 290lbs, my legs still sore from the hindu squat workout two days ago - I did a set of x35, therefore making a ✓ for the day's hindu squats being done, and completing a year of hindu squats every day.

The year saw zero missed days, every day meaning every single day, and my start mark on the daily hindu squats coincided almost exactly to the anniversary mark of my much longer pushups every day streak which will hit the ten year mark in about a week.

I started the year with emom workouts, admittedly going too many reps per minute too fast, and with a brief exception during the winter where it was about doing hindu squats indoors vs lifting outdoors in the baja canada cold I didn't do enough emom workouts.

My largest volume day was probably 60x8 emom apache runner's style in that aforementioned dodging the cold period.

(apache runner's style/apache runner's trick meaning to hold water in the mouth to force nose breathing)

My highest rep set was x75 reps.

I am a 6' endomorph or meso-endo/endo-meso hybrid at +/- 290lbs.

The gold standard is an old time wrestling and old school professional wrestling performance standard ;

To do x500 unbroken hindu squats in ≤15:00.

I pretty regularly can get a set of x35 to x60 at ~60rpm, whereas that endurance performance set is met at 33⅓rpm.

The hindu squat is a very cyclical exercise, and it is VERY FAST.

I believe I've heard the x500 unbroken being done in as little as 11:30, FLYING strength-endurance.

Popular in the world of kushti to this day, the hindu squat also was real popular in turn of the nineteenth century western physical culture, essentially called the deep knee bend, and oft a bet on contest.

My legs did not fall off.

Doing anywhere from 15 total reps to ~500 total reps as a day's volume with the average day skewed towards the low end of under 100/day (and one hundred hindu squats daily is a solid every day daily training thing to work to and maintain), the largest gains I've seen are not in having decent work capacity in the legs, but in hindu squats serving as a breathing exercise.

I found it much more efficient to breathe in and I went up, out as I went down, then more efficient still to slow down from a breath in/out every half rep to a breath in/out every full rep, and now I'm experimenting with not having a breath every rep.

Training apache style with a small amount of barbell back squats, a decent amount of jump rope, a bunch of kettlebell juggling, a bunch of kettlebell swings, during these many hindu squats has changed me from an unable to nose breath mouth breathing troglodyte to for the first time in my long training history a nose breather.

Like my long term daily pushups I value these daily hindu squats, and knowing I have come nowhere near my potential with the lessons of the year boiled down to ;

•adapt to more average reply volume

•alternate a few straight sets each day with emom workouts on other days

•slowly increase emom workout volume

•every so often increase reps per set on straight set days

•rarely test for PR reps, a few straight sets will be an indicator of where you can amrap given the motivation

Tomorrow will be a year and a day of hindu squats every day.

I think I even like hindu squats more than I like my pushups. They're no excuse, can be done anytime, anywhere, and fill a very similar to kettlebell swings training niche.

I ain't stopping.

Here's to strength,