Big Squatta

Lower back was feeling 90% so I decided to try squatting for realz again.

Squat:
(warmed up in 50 lb. increments, which took like an hour)
405 x 5
415 x 5
425 x 5
445 x 3
455 x 3

405 felt the easiest it had ever been. Only the last rep at 455 felt like there was any possibility of failing. This wasn't my best squat workout, but I'm happy for how it went for being one week after a meet. I need to figure out what I can hit raw for the arnold but given the compressed meet training cycle (also, having that other meet...), I'm not sure when exactly I'll do that.

Box Squats:
Used purple band and low box 1-2" below parallel.

275 x 4
275 x 4
295 x 4
315 x 4

These weren't hard, but when I came up explosively on the very first rep, my lower back twinged with pain. It does that when it's overtrained, so I backed off on the explosion at the top and just worked on form. It was like kyle's grandma's speed.

Pause Squats:

405 x 1 @ 5sec

This was the slowest pause squat rep of my life. I opened wayyy to heavy, because I thought if Brent was here, he would load 405 for me anyway and then call me names until I did it.

365 x 2 @ 5 sec
385 x 2 @ 5 sec

Cable Abs:
19 weights x 10ish
stack x 10, 8, 4

These killed my abs. Actually it was the squats. But my abs rarely have felt as tired as they were then.