3/21/17
Squat 215: 5/5/5
Press 97.5: 5/5/5
Deadlift 300: 5
Thoughts: Holy CNS shock, haha. Did good and hit everything, but I'm definitely very shaky afterwards. PR squat and deadlift on the same day just fried my CNS, lol. My squat form looked great today after reviewing the video. I focused on breaking hard at the hips at the start today, and my form was excellent for it. I got just below parallel, me knees weren't too far forward, my knees weren't floating at all, my back angle was perfect, and most importantly with the lower bar tweak I made last week I had 0 strain on my elbows and shoulders It was a great squat day. I do believe that putting up 3 increases on squat a week has probably run it's course though. I could tell that the squats were really heavy today, even after two days of rest. So this Thurs I'm going to transition into having light squat day mid week. My press still felt really heavy on the new equipment, I had to dig deep to get that last rep up. I was a little shaky after the squats today too, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. On DL I finally hit that big 300! Like the squat, I think I'm at the end of being able to increase every other workout on deadlift. Going from doing weekly DL's to only 5 day break this week I could really tell the difference, it was a bit tougher today. Glad I'm working with the SSC this Saturday. Hopefully I can get the power clean finally sorted out and start trading that in and out with the DL as instructed in the book that way I'm only hitting DL every 4th workout. I think that this is the perfect time to make the changes to the squat and DL to keep myself going forward without hitting a deload. That also allows me to keep my body weight going up, which will help the lifts as well. Weighed in at 167.4 this morning, up 2 pounds this week. Definitely starting to get a little uncomfortable with the body fat I'm accumulating around my waist (bye bye abs ), but I know that once I can get through this LP I can slow it down. I maybe have a month or two left of easy novice gains, then I can slow the bulk down a bit when I transfer over to HLM.