10/29/2026
Your patient just started the 100-squat challenge. Don't laugh.
She's motivated. That's the hard part, and some cartoon got her there before you did. Your job is to aim that motivation, not kill it.
Here's the problem with 100 a day. Tendons don't get stronger during the squats. They get stronger in the 48 hours after, when the collagen actually remodels. Zero rest days means zero remodeling. Just accumulation.
So I don't tell her to stop. I tell her to do 30, every other day, and add 5 a week. Same motivation. Actual physiology.
She wanted a challenge. Give her progressive overload. That's the only 30-day transformation that exists.