Squats And Milk

A gallon a day. Think you can hang?

Ever hear of the “Squats and Milk” workout? Yeah, either did I until a couple of days ago (even though it has been around since 1968). This is supposed to be THE workout to add mass and strength, and since it seemed to work for the old school bodybuilders (back before “an amazing new supplement” came on the market every 24 hours), there’s probably something to this.

For the past few months or so I have been so busy with life that I have only been making it into the gym 2 times per week at most. I don’t know how you “gifted” people are but for extremely-hard-gainers like myself, if I don’t workout I don’t have an apatite…or worse, I only crave crap. It’s a downward spiral. I stop working out, so I don’t eat…which makes me drop size…which depresses me…which makes it hard to workout…and so on. This continues until I finally jump on the scale and see a number like 168 lbs, which jerks me back to reality causing me to go on a supplement buying spree, and hunt down a new workout that I will bust my butt on to try to get back to where I was.

I decide that I will start 2009 off right…I will find a new workout and Jan 1st I will start my journey towards my goal of gaining 15 pounds. That will put me around 185, the most I’ve ever weighed. All I need now is a good workout to follow, and a nutrition plan that will fit into my busy lifestyle. Of course, my first stop is Bodybuilding.com. After running a quick search I start going down the list looking for something that interests me. Nope; Nope; Not this one; I’ve tried that one already; WHAT THE HELL…Squats n Milk?!? This brought a vision of filling my bathtub with milk and doing squats in it…which just made me have to open it. Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop. The foundation of the program is doing squats 3 times per week and drinking a gallon of milk per day. It actually makes sense to me. After all, milk is used to turn a little baby calf into a 1400 pound cow. And squats are known to produce the most HGH in your body over any other exercise. But not everything is as it seems. Just ask Eddie Murphy. This one I will have to try for myself. It’s only six weeks long, and I only need to workout 3 times per week. Aside from my normal diet, I pretty much only need to add a little milk every day. Seems easy enough. <famous last words>

After thinking about this for only a few hours, I decided that I would blog about it so that everyone who is interested in the Squats And Milk workout can follow along and see my progress…or regress and decide for themselves if they want to add this workout to their kit-bag. Whoo hooo…I’m so excited that I will be starting this in 2009.

Yeah, like most things…I couldn’t wait. My 2009 New Years Resolution to add 15 pounds of mass and ultimately a minimum of 90 pounds to my squats will begin in 2008…err…more accurately last night at 6:30pm on 12/29/2008.  I will be adding daily updates including measurements, workout journal entries, diet, and more.  So be sure to subscribe to this blog and stop back regularly.