{"id":692,"date":"2010-01-31T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T01:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-01-04T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:11:03","slug":"add-77-pounds-your-squat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/add-77-pounds-your-squat\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl added 77 pounds to his squat in 5 weeks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an e-mail that I got the other day from one of my website followers and I wanted to share it with you here because it&#8217;s a pretty awesome success story&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Lee, <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of your fans Carl.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished the 20 rep squat program that you posted,<br \/>\nand I felt like I had to send you a mail about how it went.<\/p>\n<p>First of all I have never made fast gains like this before, I went from squatting<br \/>\n176 lbs for 20 reps to squatting 253 lbs for 20 reps in just 5 weeks!<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, when I started the 20 rep squat program, I could only<br \/>\ndo 10 chin ups, now I can get 17 good reps with my own bodyweight.<br \/>\nMy dips have also improved similarly.<\/p>\n<p>But the thing that surprised me the most, is that after I completed<br \/>\nthis workout (where there is no actual bench pressing) I increased<br \/>\nmy personal best bench press by 22 lbs. I gotta say thank you for<br \/>\nsharing this program with me, and to let you know that I&#8217;m going to<br \/>\nbe getting more of your programs very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much,<br \/>\nCarl<\/p>\n<p>P.S.<br \/>\nLee I think you owe me some new pants, my legs have grown so much<br \/>\nfrom the 20 rep squat program that none of my pants fit anymore \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll have to agree that those are some awesome gains. Have you made that kind of progress in your workouts over the past 5 weeks? If not then why not give the 20 rep squat routine a try for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video showing how to do the 20 rep squat workout:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SUS5bu-CHxw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And here is a link to the actual workout program itself:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leehayward.com\/squats.htm\">http:\/\/www.leehayward.com\/squats.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have used the 20 rep squat routine before please let me know how it worked for you by posting a comment below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an e-mail that I got the other day from one of my website followers and I wanted to share it with you here because it&#8217;s a pretty awesome success story&#8230; Hi Lee, It&#8217;s one of your fans Carl. I just finished the 20 rep squat program that you posted, and I felt like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulking-up-mass-building","category-leg-workouts","category-squat-workouts","category-workout-exercise-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}