One-Minute Fitness Challenge: Squats

Love them or hate them, squats are here to stay! This simple body-weight exercise tones your entire lower body. Do enough squats, and your heart rate will start to climb. We invite you to take our one-minute challenge and see how many squats you can do in just 60 seconds. Press play, follow along, and count down the seconds along with your reps. Let us know how you do in the comments below.

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[dsmgrl]

43, same as you. I gave it everything I had to keep pace with you! Thank you so much for this mini challenge. I like these ALOT!!!

[TrishRainoneOfficial]

42 each set- did two rounds...in between putting groceries away! Love this. Will do often! Thanks for posting!

[nightangel]

43 just like you & I felt that burn - definitely going to add this to my routine. Thanks.

[FITlikeamodel]

Can I say that you rush throught he squats and you are using momentum; also need to keep your chest up higher. You need to pause a bit when squating. It's more effective. The number of rep is not important if the posture is comprimised. Sorry!

[Brinah]

I thought at first, pshaw! I could do this no problem! But, I soldered on and was panting afterwards! Good challenge!

[dickjohnson]

Did 1 squat in one minute. That shit fuckn burns.

[AnnaRenderer]

Nice job! Try to beat your score next week!

[AnnaRenderer]

I know! One minute is actually a good timed interval! Nice job, how many did you get?

[MissLionRose]

50!
Glory :)
i'll try for more next time!!

[nikunjkaushik]

49!! Will try to do more . Thankyou for this challenge
These types of challenges aur helping us during the lockdown to be fit.

[benkennington]

47, as timed by staff in my local gym (it's the current challenge) *but* I'm 59 (male) and obese (98kg with an unsightly pot belly). So with practice and losing weight.... And these were right down onto my haunches, buttocks touching heels. Is that cheating? Is it actually harder to stop in mid-air? Comments welcomed as no-one else in the gym joined this particular challenge ☹️

[franciscah]

it burns my legs but it really helps out thanks popsugar ^^

[Tinkusharma]

Hey what app did you use to count reps and timer

[racheldorricott]

It was my first time doing the 1 minute challenge and managed 30 reps of air squats.

[AnnaRenderer]

Awesome job! Did you try the push up challenge yet? Let me know if you can match me there too!

[Dorilana]

36... could work a little better on my form and going slower though! Thank you! ^__^

[chubbyblueberry]

It's hard to feel happy you kept the same pace when you can't breath.

[DeviousMar]

I did 43 too lmao, what a conscience

[ralphschraven]

Doing just-above-parallel squats is not using "full range of motion", obviously. You can do them parallel, but then don't call it full ROM. Just say you're doing them to parallel. Full ROM would obviously be ass-to-grass unless you have some serious mobility issues preventing you from squatting until your hammies touch your heels.

Also, there is no such thing as "toning your lower body". You either lose fat, or you don't. You can also change the amount of muscle you gain or lose during the process of losing or gaining fat, but you can't localize your fat loss. You either lose fat by exercising and eating right, or you don't. How often have you seen a ripped dude with an 8-pack but a bloated face and fat arms? It never happens. It's physically impossible.

I'm saying this, because toning mainly happens by losing fat. You can have pretty puny muscles and still have them appear "toned" if you have low body fat in that area of your body. So "toning" is pretty much a useless term as it doesn't add any value over the more straightforward concepts of losing fat and gaining muscle.

Thanks for reading, hope that cuts through some of the BS presented here. Oh, and... "45".

[minhhuesdiary]

I am doing my squat challenge which is one minute = 60 squats in 60 days non stop with all kind of different squats...so far I did 70 regular squats in one minute without equipment and 60 deep or all kinds of squats with 20- 30 lb dumbbell in one minute. Check it out at my channel