200/300/400/500

[hector_garza]

Strength
Squat: 340 x 3s x 5r
Bench: 240 x 4s x 5r(PR)

Other
T-Bar: 245 x 3s x 5r(PR)
Ab-Wheel: 3s x 6r

Volume
Squat: 5,100
Bench: 4,800
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Total: 9,900

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Often I drive to the gym after work and pass out in the parking lot for 20 minutes.
I'm so exhausted that I need a quick nap before I can do anything physical.
Slept for 7 hours the night before this workout and it made a world of difference. Felt awesome.

[Meshuggah]

Hey man, congrats on that 505X5. You're in Beastmode!!

[hector_garza]

Hey man, congrats on that 505X5. You're in Beastmode!!

THanks! I was pumped to hit it.

[hector_garza]

Big Lifts
Deads: 455 x 4s x 5r (PR!)
Bench: 245 x 1s x 3r
Bench: 255 x 1s x 3r
Bench: 235 x 1s x 5r

Other Lifts
F Squat: 225 x 3s x 5r
Ab Wheel: 2s x 6r

Volume
Deads: 9,100
Bench: (735 + 765 + 1,175) = 2,685
F Squat: 3,375
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Total: 15,160

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A new 4s x 5r Deadlift PR!!! (Yeah, that's a niche and marginal PR. Don't care. I take what I can get. Progress is progress. And I think these sessions of high set deadlifts are important.)

Front squats are fun.
Front squats are routinely attacked as inferior to back squats in every way. And in most ways they are.
But one way they're not? Abs.
The ab workout from front squats is awesome, and not found in back squats.
So if you're going to take 10 minutes to do abs anyway, why not spend that ten minutes doing front squats?

In BJJ my abs were always my weak point physically. When I go back they won't be.
If you care about ab strength then it's possible for Front Squats to be an optimal use of your time at the end of your workout, even as inferior as front squats are in so many other respects to back squats.

With front squats targeting upper abs, and the ab wheel targeting lower abs, in the context of a barbell program where the big lifts are utilized, I think I should be good to go on abs.

I saw a guy at the gym deadlift 600 lbs yesterday. Surprise, it was the same guy who squatted 500 the other week. I congratulated him on his lift. He used straps, still awesome. I look forward to deadlifting 600 without straps.

Amazingly, since focusing a bit on grip strength these past few months, my grip is NEVER the weak link when I pull anymore. Before that my grip was often the weak point.

[pkelly54]

Nice work.

[bubbafat]

Deads: 455 x 4s x 5r (PR!)

Kick ass, man. Great job.

[hector_garza]

Kick ass, man. Great job.

Thanks! Bit by bit.

[hector_garza]

Squat: 365 x 1 x 1

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Lesson Learned: If you hit a deadlift PR one day, you might be too burned out to squat much the next day. Still value in coming in and doing something.

[hector_garza]

F. Wasn't 365. It was 385.
It's weak that you can't edit old posts anymore.

[Oldster]

Squat: 385 x 1 x 1

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Lesson Learned: If you hit a deadlift PR one day, you might be too burned out to squat much the next day. Still value in coming in and doing something.

Yeppers! Nice squattin'!