Glad you guys enjoyed the story.
Yesterday was recovery day. Had to rush through a bit cause I over slept my nap (rough life, right?) and had to get back uptown to coach a client.
Squat
45x5x2, 135x5, 205x5, 275x5
Notes: Testing the knee and hip. Both better than Monday, but both also still a bit wonky, especially the knee. Rather than wait who knows how long for it to go away, I will wrap up with an ace bandage on Friday and see if I can do Intensity Day or some heavy squatting at least. It would be annoying as hell to have to stop just short of 5 plates for doubles across.
Press
Warm-ups to 200x5, 210x3, 225x1, 175x5
Notes: Went just slightly lighter on the 5/3/1 sets than last time, it should still do its job.
Chins
5+3, 10, 9
Notes: The first set was done on the bar of the new rack the gym just got Unfortunately I didn't pay attention and it's a fat bar with no knurling in the place you can chin on (the wider area where the handles flare and angle out has knurling of course; I find it frustrating but amusing how poorly designed exercise equipment is.), so I only got 5 before my grip got hard. I dropped down for about 3 seconds, then got back on and did 3 more.
For the 2nd and 3rd set, I moved to the angled handles which almost, but not quite, allow full supination. So they were chin-up-esques. 10 and 9. I did 10 on both, but didn't quite get up all the way and finish the 10th rep on the last set.
Couldn't rest much since I was in a hurry.
Sorry, forgot to respond to this last time. I've thought about it, a lot. My experience in the way I recover from heavy full pulls tells me 5x5 squats on Monday won't happen if I pull a PR 5 on Friday.
At some point in the TM, when I don't do 5x5 every Monday anymore, I may try it. When the time comes, I've toyed in my head with alternating 8x3 and 5x5 on Mondays, or other set/rep ranges that might make sense (i.e. 3x5, 5x3, etc...). I'd be more open to trying it on a Friday when not facing the grueling 5x5 on Monday a few days later.