“a good bar for most guys would be to work up to squatting your bodyweight,” for a one rep max, says Men’s Health fitness director, Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S. Squats recruit the muscles in ...

Equipment needed: Barbell, set of weight plates – you will need six pairs for six different total weights per set of squats ... reps until we reach our one-rep max. We then reverse the pyramid ...