Squat Ladder

, baYesterday I was able to do one of the Crossfit benchmark workouts. It was the squat ladder. The way it works is you do one squat the first minute, then two the second and so on, until you don't complete your amount in the minute. At that point you continue on starting back at one. You do this for 30 minutes and your first 10 minutes are overhead squats the second ten minutes are front squats and the last 10 minutes are back squats, the weight I used was a 45 pound bar.

When I first saw this I thought it would be no problem, I can do thirty squats in minute, but when you add it up, it is 465 squats if you get them all. Needless to say I was wrong, I was able to get to the round of 17 squats before I missed, I finished these up and started back at one and did not miss again for the rest of the work out. I ended up doing 244 squats. My legs are killing me today. Next time I hope to get to the 20 minute mark.