February 08, 2010 - ME LB

Walking – 32 minutes

Dynamic Warm-ups

Squats
45x10
95x5
135x3
185x3
225x3
275x3
315x1
365x1
405x1
435x1
465x0
395x3

14" Rack Deadlifts w/IW#4's dbl
225x3
275x3
Add Straps
315x3
365x3
405x3
455x1

Safety Squat Bar Goodmornings
175x12 PR+10lbs
175x12
175x12

Unanchored Spread Eagle Situps
25x20 PR+5lbs
25x20
25x20

34 Minutes of Stretching

Comments: Mixed bag lifting. My legs felt strong warming up with light weight but my form was horrible when I got up in weight. 435 didn't even feel that bad but I got pitched forward in the bottom and it made it tough. Kind of dissappointing not getting 465lbs and barely got three with 395lbs. Looks like I may need to rethink things when it comes to squats. Honestly I was thinking about calling it a day at this point. This was a new setup for the rack pulls. No tension at the start ,which allows me to get into posistion and work on keeping the bar close to the body, and a lot at the top. Since the pull is just in one plane as opposed to the other setup which dispersed the band tension horizontally and vertically, all of the tension goes to the top of the lift. So even though the previous setup was "325lbs" added (this one is 280lbs), this setup feels harder at the top. I think this setup will work better for me in the long run. 405lbs felt good enough that I tried 455lbs and I had to hitch that for a tough single. GM's went well and so did abs. So besides the squatting, it was okay. But it looks like I need to do some more fine tuning and tinkering.