LRB 365: LRB Split. Week 1. Squat - Heavy

BW - 193

Squat -
BarX10 (paused)
95X5 (paused)
135X5
155X4
185X3
195X2
205X1
215X1
225X1

Front Squat -
85X10
95X10
105X10
115X10

Machine Leg Press - X10, 10, 10, 14 (to a Top Set)

Alternating Lunges - BWX30, 26, 24, 22

I'd been looking forward to the first leg day of this split for a few weeks now, and I'm not disappointed.

Squats are all strong.  The way I programmed the Strong-15 for this cycle was to hit the same top single, 245, at the end, that I've been hitting occasionally on the last two cycles.  I want to feel like I own 245 so that when 255 and 265 come along, weights I've shakily done before, I will feel more confident than ever with them.  My thought right now is to hit 275 again at the end of the upcoming strength cycle.  That would be 10 lbs. more than what I hit at the beginning of this program, and match my all time 1 Rep attempt.  Would love to smoke that.  It will all depend on how I'm feeling at the end of this cycle, but I won't program any higher than that.

115X10 on Fronts is a Rep PR.  Having trouble keeping the bar from rolling forward on the heaviest sets.

Regular leg press was mucho ocupado, so I had to settle for the machine leg press.  Whatever, it's all body-building.

Lunges were pretty brutal after all of the above.  I rest/paused sets 2-4.  I really feel my glutes today, and I think that's because of the way I do lunges.  Keeping an upright torso and shin i.e. not leaning forward or allowing my knee to travel forward very much.  Something about that must shift to my glutes, because they're often sore the day after higher-rep lunges.