Tuesday, July 24, 2012

5/3/1 Full-Body: Cycle 2. Week 1. Squat

LRB Diet - Day 2

BW - 200

Hypers - 4 sets of 15-20

Squats -
BarX5
95X5
135X5
165X5
185X10

Pendlays -
75X10
135X8
115X15

Dips - BWX7, 16, 8

Chiro Crunches - 5 sets of 35

First day with the reset training max on squats.  I've lost the "feel" of going over 5 reps with this movement, and I'm happy to be getting back into it.  I didn't really know what I needed to hit for a certain max projection, so I just set my sights on 10 reps for the top set, and got it.  This projects a 1RM in line with what I was doing last cycle, but I'm confident the additional reps at this lower weight will help stimulate some growth to start building up to new, heavier weights down the road.  With 531, it will be several months before I get the opportunity to try and beat my parallel squat single rep PR with my new, ATG form, but I am very much looking forward to that and any other chances to break old PR's with the new form.

I got side-ways in my head, and went too heavy too fast on the Pendlays, but still hit a nice 15 reps on the back-off set.

BW of 200 for 16 reps on Dips projects a new 1RM PR.  Yayee.

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