If you’re looking to increase your squatting strength repeatability while also improving aerobic capacity you’ve come to the right place.
The progressions I’ve outlined in this spreadsheet are best for competitive CrossFit athletes who are transitioning out of an off-season phase and are looking to get more sport-specific squatting capacity.
Why? Because more often than not, athletes are asked to lift in the sport of CrossFit under at least some level of fatigue.
So if an athlete has been working on unfatigued, high tension squatting strength in the off-season twice per week, then as their competitive season approaches they could move one of those days to a progression similar to the ones I linked to, which will bias more fatigued strength capacity.
These progressions will…
(a) help act as a foundation for higher intensity battery work down the line through giving important exposures of task switching
(b) act as supporting strength work on a secondary squat day.
Also, if an athlete is a highly proficient squatter but they lack squat endurance, a progression like this could be run on its own in a pre-competition phase and it will likely be sufficient for maintaining their leg strength.
