Texas Method Team Training. Week 12. Intensity Day

Squat - 345X4

Press - 135X4

Deadlift -
275X1
315X0, 0

Rough day today.  I have a high-hamstring strain and a low-back strain that were nagging at me coming in.  The former didn't really bother me at all today, although I could feel it pretty well on the top-set of squats.  The back pain was robbing me of all my explosiveness on the squat.  Made powering out of the hole very difficult, and so the whole lift went slow.  All 4 reps of the work set were grinders, and I failed on rep #5.

The Squats aggravated the injury and made it actually interfere with the overheads as well.  Again, I failed on rep #5, and the back pain was continual at this point; even away from the weights.

Worked up on singles with the DL just to see what was what.  Tried twice to get 315.  It left the ground on the 2nd attempt but stalled out almost immediately.

Time to rest up and recover.  On Volume Day, I expect we will pick the 5X5 weight based on how these injuries are feeling.  At most, we will repeat the same weight as  last week.  Going forward we will probably not advance those weights any time soon, and may even back them off.

On Intensity Day, we will look to keep pushing upwards.  We'll be prepared to go for sets of 5 next week if they feel good, but if not, we will switch to triples.