Last Sunday was a max effort squat session at Apollon, and our second day of the Circa-Max cycle.

As we did last week, we used some extreme band tension, (two heavies and an average) totaling around 500 or so at the top. This time, rather than a percentage based session, we were working up to a max, still on a box.

After gradually warming up to the three bands, I went up as follows.

110 x 1

200 x 1

240 x 1

290 x 1

330 x 1

380 x 1

400 x 1

420 x 1

The 420 was a grind, but a clean rep. I called it there because given the tension at the top, I was already well above my max squat at the top range of the movement.

We are typically all pretty shot after doing something like this, so I finished with 5 sets of reverse hypers and 5 sets of pulldown abs.