Show your legs no mercy with this one

Great find. Me and my training partner have been doing these for over a month now. We are still sore as can be the next day, and these are a huge contributing factor.

We do them at the end of our workout, for our last 3 sets. They are killer that is for sure. Make sure to not let your knee go past your toes, the main focus is not to be on your quads but mostly your hams and glutes.

At this point we are trying to switch from doing upper and lower body workouts seperate...to full body workouts twice a week. On full body workout days doing these last will feel like you will never make it out alive! Great times for sure.

Also, these can be done with holding a dumbell in each hand to your side...works less on your core though.

Thanks for the tip on knee position - that's a great point. It certainly does get the glutes quite a bit. I can see why a full-body, twice a week routine would be more appropriate for triathlon training by allowing more time for muscle recovery and more time & effort put towards the tri. I will give it a go. My body could use some diversification.

For the past couple months I have been doing mostly super-sets with lighter weights, and shorter breaks. It's been very successful and the workouts are more fun and intense. Any other lifts you know that pack a punch?