
Cast your mind back to the lockdown days when bodyweight circuits in your living room were a common occurrence. For me, my main memory of these at-home workouts were sweaty High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) sessions that involved an awful lot of squat jumps — so many, in fact, my neighbors probably hated me. This excellent bodyweight move gets your heart rate up and torches the muscles in your legs in record time, while also working on your explosive power.
Since lockdown ended, I don’t think I’ve done a single squat jump so to shake up my routine, I decided to do 50 squat jumps a day for a week to give my legs a bit of a challenge. Ready to find out what happened? Read on.