Squat Training When You Were Competing

[Tom Bryant]

Hi Rip,

You often mention how you set up your pull training when you were competing; Alternating Rack Pulls/Haltings, plus a light pulling day; shrugs/power cleans.

I'm just curious to know how you trained your squat during this period.

Thanks,
Tom

[Mark Rippetoe]

I overtrained it at too light a bodyweight with poor/no technical advice. Nothing to be learned from me.

[Tom Bryant]

Define overtraining it?

Days per week/sets/reps.

Thanks

[Mark Rippetoe]

That level of detail would require that I spend some time with my old training logs, analyzing precisely my tonnage/frequency/intensity. I'm not really interested enough in satisfying your sudden curiosity to do that.