I started my squat challenge in early February, and am working on my third week. As I said in my first post, I started doing just five minutes of accumulated squatting on that first week, then progressed to ten minutes of accumulated squatting on week two. For week three, I decided to continue with ten minutes of accumulated squatting because I didn't feel ready to go up to more time yet; I'm thinking that things are going okay, and I'm going to move up to either 15 or 20 minutes of accumulated squat time (I haven't decided yet).
Two weeks in, I still need to elevate my heels. But I noticed that they seem to be overall staying lower to the ground now in a squat (I noticed that using the yoga blocks isn't very comfortable now - I need to find something a bit lower I think). I can also sit okay in a squat for around 3-4 minutes, but getting up to 5 minutes at a time starts to hurt.
I also discovered that I need adequate rest time between rounds of squatting right now; two days ago, I forgot to fit any squatting in earlier in the day, so I did a round of 5 minutes, rested for 10-20 minutes (I didn't pay attention to how long, I just know it was a bit, but not super long), then squatted again for another 5 minutes. By four minutes in on the second squat, I was hurting! I pushed it to the fifth minute because I didn't want to have to do another squat that night, but that was a mistake; I was sore for awhile after finishing. So yesterday I did three smaller squats (making it to over 11 minutes!) just to split it up more. That helped a lot - I wasn't sore at the end. :)
It'll be interesting to see where I'm at in another week or two! I've already seen some changes and can sit in a squat for longer than when I started. :)
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