Squatter's Journal-The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

[LtL]

Nice work Jimbo. Keep it rolling.

Al

[Kuytrider]

Nice lifting, great to hit an unexpected 10 pounds heavier

[Squatter]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

Nice bump on the MPs Jim! Keep hard after it.

Thanks Steve!! I definitely wanted to squeeze everything I could out of it.

Originally Posted by ravimolasaria

good volume Jim ... is it sort of deload ... or you are preparing for next session ...

Thanks Ravi. Yes, sort of a deload. Lifting heavy in my home gym is playing havoc with me, so effective immediately I won't bench anymore at home. Heavy benching once per week with the crew on Saturday's will be just fine. I might still do just some DB pressing at home.

Originally Posted by markievicz

Strong Pressing Jim.
5 weeks out , that came around pretty quickly!

Thanks mate!! Yes, indeed, time is flying by. Already getting somewhat nervous tho.

Originally Posted by LtL

Nice work Jimbo. Keep it rolling.

Al

Thanks Al!! A deload is in order for me, then a couple of weeks of hard training, then prepare for the meet.

Originally Posted by Kuytrider

Nice lifting, great to hit an unexpected 10 pounds heavier

Thanks Kuyt!! Haha - indeed - I wish that could always be the case.

[mab54]

Nice PR buddy, keep on rolling!

[Squatter]

Originally Posted by mab54

Nice PR buddy, keep on rolling!

thanks Mike!!

[Squatter]

SQUAT SESSION

Got off to a sh!tty start tonight - literally. Mrs Squatter plugged the toilet. Upon trying to get the snake out of it, some of it recoiled and then crap was flung all over the place including me LOL. Luckily, none hit my face or I really would have freaked out. So, Mrs Squatter disinfected me with lysol wipes and then into the shower. Since I eat clean, might as well lift clean. To bad the camera wasn't rolling as I am sure it would have won the prize on America's Funniest Home Videos.

Tonight's goal with squats was to widen my stance & begin my descent quicker as per the Crew's instruction. Brian told me that I am burning my clutch out and wasting energy with a too slow start. I have been apprehensive lately due to coming of my lower back tweak. Been there and done that before. I am confident I will be able to get rid of the apprehension soon, as I did last time.

The 340 single felt kinda on the overly heavy side, and 365 was fugly. Thus I decided to ramp down until I found my happy place and then do some triples. As it turned out, 275 felt great and I had a lot of fun burying them. I know I need a deload when 365 feel like 430.

Plan forward now is to Bench Saturday and Deadlift Sunday with the Crew. Next week I will not train at all at home, and play it by ear for that following weekend.

Squat
95 X5
135 X3
165 X3
195 X3
225 X3
255 X3
285 X3
315 X3
340 X1
365 X1
315 X3
275 X3
275 X3
275 X3
275 X3
275 X3
225 X3
205 X3
185 X3
155 X3

Toasted Squatter.

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[markievicz]

Strong work as usual Jim

[ravimolasaria]

that is lot of wt. movement Jim ... strong session as usual ...

[BendtheBar]

Killing the squats Jim.

Regarding poo poo...I never expected that being a man would involve so much poo poo.

[linedriver465]

Way to power through the squats despite the "$hitty" situation beforehand haha