Wednesday, April 30, 2014

2014-04-30 Competition Squat

Warmup - limited positions due to shoulder

Didn't do the glute bridges, for some reason.

Some extra tennis ball work for upper back

Squat -
45x5
85x5
125x5
165x5
205x5
245x5
290x5
385 Unrack
335x5
405 Unrack
335x5
425 Unrack
335x5
I did pretty well on the first set, not so well on the second, and very well on the third. I'm not totally sure of my depth, but that's usually a sign that I'm cutting slightly below legal instead of rock bottom.
I credit a lot of the difficulty changes to rest periods. After set 2 I rested roughly a minute before setting up to unrack 425, then something like 8 minutes before set 3. I probably did the same going into the second walkout, but then only 4-4.5 minutes before set 2.

I've rearranged the playlist a bit; basically added another 1:30 between the first two sets dropped 1:00 between the last two to give things a bit more balance.

I still have issues with my knees, but speed (and the fact that difficulty doesn't really increase during the set if I rest long enough) has me thinking I'll make it to 350x5x3, which will be a lifetime PR for sets across (lifetime PR for a single set of 5 was 375).

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