Posted on February 09, 2016 by Jenny Cromack

Building up a tolerance to high volume lower body training can be a hard, daunting process. It is wise to build this up over a period of time. However once you get to a period where you have build sufficient anaerobic fitness these workouts below will challenge you. These should not be a weekly session however throw them in once every 6 weeks to create an intense training stimulus.

Session 1. (60s Shootout)

1. You need to put 60% of your 1RM on a barbell and get ready to squat
2. On the minute every minute you need to complete 5 full back squats
3. Continue this process for 20 mins
4. If you complete the session with the required weight (increase the weight by 5-7.5% next cycle)

Session 2. (1k lunge)

1. Lunge 20m (bodyweight)
2. Walk 20m
3. Repeat x 50
4. No rest other than a casual walk between the two cones

Session 3. (100 rep race)

1. Place 70% 1RM back squat on the barbell
2. As fast as possible with good form squat to 100 reps
3. You can decide how many reps/ sets and how long you rest for
4. The aim is to complete the 100 reps as fast as possible

There you go 3 simple effective lower body conditioning drills to really help build that anaerobic tolerance in the lower body. Good luck