June 21, 2025
With the summer solstice occuring last night, today is the first full day of summer.
With my having been putting off announcing it – videos still quite far back on delay between filming and posting…having run it to Day 600 Overhead Press Every Day, well I decided that had run it’s course, and to again free up my freedom in strength training.
It’s…I pause to do a set of hindu squats…the 48th day of my doing daily hindu squats.
My “__ every day” roots, well before I ever filmed a lift were that of running “squat every day”, having multiple runs of them (squat every day in general, even hindu squats specifically once in the past)
as well as in my training history having very long term pushups every day, and six years ago now having what I called “Dip Odyssey” where I did 300+ bodyweight dips daily for the summer.
The lift most amusing to me right now is the sandbag shoulder squat.
For a month and a half now I’ve been treating hindu squats as a main movement, and daily thing, even starting that while still doing “Overhead Press Every Day”.
I sit here pondering training – the continued daily hindu squats specifically, and “The Summer of Squats” more broadly (to encompass working mostly on that aforementioned sandbag thang in addition to the hindu squats)…
Just. Makes. Sense.
The 2h swing with 40kg kettlebell makes sense in the same context as the hindu squats to me…but one requires something, as well as not being something I naturally enjoy, while the other…
The hindu squat…
Requires nothing! No excuse! Has perfect logistics, and is one of those movements I’ve naturally enjoyed over the years.
(though for a very long time were something I felt very self conscious doing anywhere but indoors at home)
But now, now I love them – I no longer feel that inhibition, and I see a focus on legs, the step ups if I don’t make myself do other cardio, the sandbag shoulder squat and the kettlebell swing as the main weight training, and the hindu squat the main movement even more still.
A “leg day” focus, where “every day is leg day”, well that’s never seen me weigh more than 235lbs – this is the path to being in shape again. 295lbs is too heavy.
Summer 2025
Welcome to “The Summer Of Squats”!
-J
diggy diggy hole – wind rose
(the main lifting song on repeat)