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Can you do them with upright arms and flat spine with the bar overhead or does it fly forward to to your toes? It's a good test for mobility. If you can do it reasonably well it means you've got decent mobility. I do them for warming up to squatting. To start with, I have terrible OHS form, but as I work on my mobility it gets better and when I can do a comfortable OHS i'll go on to my FS workout.

edit, so this is my pre-workout mobility sequence
- loosen up my upper and middle back and shoulders with a band stretch. not sure what it's called but draw out the band in front of you with palms out and then take it behind and touch your lower back and repeat it. Usually do about 2 sets of 8 or until I feel freed up
- take a pvc pipe to my traps and behind my neck, that takes seconds, but it's important because it frees up your neck to have a comfortable rack position without choking yourself etc
- roll on a softball against a wall traps, lats that upper mid back area. This is quick too, about 20-30 seconds and done
- work down the back but also take a very painful detour around the obliques (i think) -- rollling here is very painful but if you do it right (arms up in the air), it will do wonders for t-spine mobility
- new one for me is painful but awesome -- rolling on my glutes -- need this to have a decent upright position at the bottom of a squat so it's v. important
- usual kstar bullshit stretches everyone does, so called couch stretch which is a bit useless imho but i do it anyway because everyone raves about it
- roll hips against wall ..  i think pirformis? hurts like hell but it's cool
- free up quads, softball roll against wall .. magic for knees
- very important, ankles and calves, have to use pvc pipe for lower leg
- finally weighted ankle stretch, this feels so wrong but i kinda do it anyway, get into a squat position with the empty barbell across your quads near the knee, push down to stretch ankle on each side Then work up to using weight. i usually finish with 60kg on this, no shoes because that seems to help with the stretch

and im sure i'm forgetting some but if i go thru all that, will have decent mobility to do an easy comfortable correct OHS which then tells me i'm ready for FS.

FS 0Fx132.5, 2x127.5, 6x102.5 (PR), 5x107.5, 6x100
BS 1x135, 6x112.5
BP 3x90, 5x86
ÇU 7x90, 3x100, 3x95
BRO 10x40, 10x50
OBGB 2x20

New training obsessions is rows.

Nice! They are a cool looking pair of shoes. I love mine. Interested to see how you go in them.

Shoes were perfect to squat in. They fit me like a glove and what I thought was too snug before simply disappeared once they moulded to my feet. The only thing I noticed was the straps drag underneath the foot when I walk around but otherwise i love them! More detail in the workout log.

I've been taking mobility a bit more seriously. Have been looking at getting a foam roller, may help with my squat form. In the mean time I rolled my glutes on a softball on the floor. Hurts a fair bit. But already made a huge difference immediately with a bodyweight squat test. Which is promising!!! Wish I tried this earlier.

Training
FS 1x117.5, 1x125, 1x130, 3Fx120
BS 3x120, 2x127.5, 1x129

Orange Band Glute bridge 3x15
Pushups 8, 10, 12
Orange Band leg press 2x15
OB 1leg Leg press 2x25

FS notes:
So lots of volume fatigues CNS (quoting the 101 lesson thing mutombo highlighted). That's interesting. Explains why I was retardly weak today after overdoing it on friday. In fact muscularly I feel quite fresh but i guess it's the CNS which is dampened ...... that blews my mind a little. Have to respect volume.

BS notes:
Was just warming up when a flash flood passed by and stormed out my gym. lulz. Would have kept squatting but my shoes were slipping all over the place and it's probably not a great idea to squat. Might go check out a gym nearby and get some sets in, if i can be bothered. Blah

Bodyweight stuff:
Just fooled around with bodyweight exercises. Pretty fun and not that easy. Should do this sort of thing more often!

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ok that's all for now.

Re: the discussion with mutombo about leg training

Hack Squats – Hack squats are a classic bodybuilding exercise and are my preferred exercise for building up larger quad size. I prefer the hack squats because they place very little stress on the back and isolate the quads I feel better than leg pressing. They also allow you to practice driving your hips forward as you would if you are a quad dominant squatter who also engages the hips well. Like any exercise I will try to push these so the rep and weight combinations are difficult to complete, but shooting for 1-2 very hard sets of 20 is ideal here.

I'll put this to the test next week. It might be just the thing i've been looking for..

Training
FS 1x117.5, 1x125, 2Fx129, 0Fx132.5
BS 3x120, 2x127.5, 2Fx135, 0Fx140, 1x130, 1x132.5, 1x130, 1x130, 1x127.5, 1x125, 1x127.5, 1x122.5
BP 5x89.5 (PR)
WCU 7x92kg (PR)

FS notes:
Paradoxically I had a really good FS day, my technique was solid and I would have got a PR today contrary to expectation from poor preparation. Will crush it on wednesday with my current technique, just wasn't strong enough today.

Technique sets to come. Second thought, i might skip it today. Wanna see what becomes sore tmr.

BS notes:
Did a lot of singles just nailing down technique. Happy with it. I'm emulating the TK style squat at least in my mind when doing these.

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Bench if i can be bothered later tonight

Why don't you just make front squat your primary exercise? It seems close enough to your back squat at the moment that your rack strength isn't an issue.

lol, if only life were so simple.

My FS is limited by quad strength, and it trains glutes and hamstrings
My BS is limited by lower back and hamstring strength and it trains the quads

FS is a cool exercise and all, but it doesn't do anything for my leg strength. When my BS went up, my FS went up nicely. BS gets stuck, FS gets stuck. FS is not my panacea.