Well, all the holiday gorging seems to have done my squat well, if not my belly. I don’t recommend you get fat to increase your squat, but it does help.

• Reverse Band Squat, work up to a heavy single, then add the reverse bands and work up to an absolute max single (don’t be afraid to fail if you have good spotters)
• Kettlebell Swings 3 x 10, use the heaviest bell possible
• Decline Weighted Sit-Ups 3 x 10

I didn’t do much accessory work because it took a lot of sets to get to a max single on the band squats. Once those were done we were all pretty burned out.