Monday will start a new back squat program. This is two 6 week programs back to back. The first 6 weeks are fairly familiar territory for CFO, but weeks 7-12 will take us into the deep waters of “drop sets.” But first things first. This program comes from Ben Smith. Smith won the 2015 CrossFit Games and appeared 11 times over his career. He literally grew up in the sport and his training evolved along with it. I always recommend videos of Ben Smith moving the barbell – I feel like he is a genetically gifted “regular dude” as opposed to a physical freak of nature. He trained hard, then he had to learn to train smart. So, training smart. This program is beefy – it will take time, but it will build up really nasty. We will back squat twice a week – and we will be doing other...
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