The max-rep back squat challenge has come to a close. A grateful thanks to all who participated in this week’s challenge. There were once again some impressive performances!

A quick recap on this weeks challenge: Load a barbell with your body weight, throw it on your back and squat as many times as you can.

Here are the results from those who turned in a video. Results will be ordered from highest to lowest reps.

Coming in first with an unbelievable 61 reps was Kevin Kirsch a body weight of 195! That would be an impressive day’s worth of reps, let alone in a single set. Kevin is a trainer at Crossfit 215, and his constant mocking of Jen led to her first muscle-up. Oh, peer pressure.

In second place is RKC swing-master Melody Schoenfeld with 30 reps at 100 pounds. What’s really impressive about Melody is her willingness to get out of her comfort zone with these challenges. Applause, applause for bravery!

This was a late, great entry from Lindsay Cappotelli with 30 purty reps, and killer knee socks to boot. She goes and goes!

There was a tie for third with 24 reps between Stefani Busch at 150 pounds and Mike Fout at 185 pounds. These two are ballers.

In a very close fourth-place finish comes Emily Socolinsky of Fivex3 Training with 22 reps at 140 pounds. These are breathtakingly beautiful reps.

Next up: Roger Lawson of Rog Law Fitness with 17 reps at 210 pounds. As he says, he puts the a$$ in a$$-to-grass squats.

Rounding off the field with 10 reps apiece were the quite fabulous Marianne Kane from myomytv.com with 127 pounds and Kimberly Mills at 135 pounds (5 pounds over body weight). Noteworthy: Every single rep Marianne does is flawless. Also noteworthy: Kimberly, though still relatively new to lifting, has been working hard this past year, and has lost 60 pounds doing such quality exercises as the squat.

An honorary mention goes out to Tim Goodsell who churned out a truly impressive 37 reps at a weight of 210. This would have put him in second place, but unfortunately we couldn’t post his name up there because we didn’t have videographic evidence. Very impressive, though! He says he’ll continue doing the challenge until he surpasses Kevin.:)

Again, much thanks to all who participated in this challenge and great job! Don’t forget to give next week’s challenge a shot with max chin-ups and turn in a video with your results in the comments section!