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Originally Posted by
Mac Ward
Don't cut yourself from the team just yet. I personally don't think a week off crushed you, people do it all the time before a meet. I think you're in your head a little too much. You're one of the most diligent, focused lifters on the forum. Put all this noise out of your head and get into the gym with a positive mental attitude to the maximum extent possible. There is all kinds of weight in the gym, don't add any extra weight to the bar that we can't see with mental crap. The bar is light, your mind is not. You train 1.5 hours a day four times a week, that's 6 hours a week. Somehow, I think you can do this. Instead of thinking about 300, think about repping 315.
You know I want to squat 400 - so I think about what repping 455 feels like. Suddenly, my piddly little 370 PR doesn't feel so bad. There's lots of weight, let's use the kind we can measure.