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lol sorry brah. You know how much I hate your half deadlifts 

If I were getting oly shoes right now in Australia, i'd buy these.

adarq, so i think i'm closer to reversehypertrophy status than ever, finally got my first lob dunks. I'm not quite there yet but on that same path you blazed. #150lbornothing is still the goal.. give me a coupla months max.

I've long done the same amount of FS:BS work - it's not like i've done FS twice as often. The days I squat (every session), I do both FS & BS! But I always do FS first and BS last like you said. Thing is, going from FS to BS, it should feel 'easier' because BS is an easier exercise (for the same weight). Right? But that's not my experience. BS is hard, harder even. Also, in recent times i've done 2-3 sets of front squats only before moving to backsquat. 2 sets is about my average. 2 sets of heavy front squats take away some, sure. But i'm not super exhausted/fatigued either. I could do a lot more front squatting before I get fatigued. Most days I'm not going into backsquats completely fatigued. Perhaps just enough to make it harder, i'll buy that.

Quote from: entropy on March 06, 2013, 09:06:32 am

BS notes:
I don't get how other ppl can work their way easily to squatting 3 plates and some while i'm struggling around 2. I feel as though I should at least work up to 2x6x115 but how??

eat strong. squat strong.

your diet sucks. your back squat form is pretty good. i've seen 6'2 / 220lb gym rats who can barely quarter squat 225lb. your poundage is not so bad for a twig. lol

if you are not inflexible, maybe you just need to focus on keeping your whole torso / spine as one solid unit while breaking the knees/hips. point top of the head straight up and let everything else follow it through the range of motion.

Do you think I need more muscle mass to squat say 5x115kg? I can front squat over 120kg, I should be able to backsquat more than that even at my twig-weight .. right? That's what's bothering me because fine I don't have the muscle mass to squat 400, but i have enough muscle to front squat >120kg, shouldn't I be able to backsquat say ~135kg/300lb (to take 90% of backsquat). But if I was a 135kg backsquatter I wouldn't be struggling with backsquatting low 100kgs..?

I might have a flexibility issue. But i can post a video of me front squatting ATG with decent form. So you'd think I have the flexibility for backsquat, esp since the depth is higher on the backsquat.

Post a video back squat video from the side.  I imagine you lack a bit of ankle flexibility (or don't own good oly shoes) but are religious about hitting good depth which causes you to round your low back hard to keep from falling backwards on your backsquat.   WIth the bar in front you can hit that really deep without rounding your back.

Added the video back to my earlier post, please have a look. I don't ATG on backsquat, not militant about depth on backsquat as long as it's below parallel i'm happy. I save my deep squatting for the front squat which comes  naturally to me. I do use oly shoes, and I think i have the ankle mobility because I can front squat deep fine.

But having said that I might still have a problem with mobility all the same because my backsquat looks very assymetric, i favour my strong left side a lot. I just don't know what, or how to fix it.

I think your form is fine it's just that you're really skinny. At 6'3 165 you're not going to be putting up good numbers. I'm actually surprised that you can front squat as much as you can- good neural efficiency. Even if you were heavy though most tall people aren't made to squat in the first place. Of course there are some massive squatters that are tall but pretty much all of them are 265+lbs or have a squat build (short limbs, long torso), or usually both. So really it's just a mixture of all those reasons. If you put on 60lbs you'd probs be squatting 350-400lbs but like you said there would be no point in that because it'd be detrimental for your athleticism.
At the end of the day I wouldn't even worry about it too much. Like you said you're increasing your athleticism without the back squat. The back squat is just a tool it's not the be all end all. Everybody would like a high squat to brag about but if you can get the results without it than fuk it.

I accept that I wont be squatting shitloads at my bodyweight. No argument there. My problem is with my BS/FS ratio. It should be >1 and i must be the only person where it's less. I find it perplexing that my backsquat is lighter than my front squat. That's unheard of, because universally backsquat should be a lot stronger. Add to the fact that I go deeper on front squats than I do on backsquat and it becomes even harder to understand.

My training has evolved. That time off during injury has showed me how much my body appreciated rest. My knees feel great. No aches and pains anywhere which used to be there all the time. I will be working regular weeks off for rest maybe once after every 4 weeks or whenever I need it really, whichever makes most sense.

Slowly getting back to where I was pre-injury on the scale, weighed 168 today. Still a bit bloated but it's going away as my body adjusts to cutting. I'm struggling with hunger which always happens at the start of diet before adapting.

I'm tempted to practice dunking today but i'll be patient and rest because I want to get some nice PRs tomorrow. If I can get FS 3x110 & 5x105 PRs i'll be thrilled. And then there is also backsquat to progress as well. Yes i'll definitely rest today for what's to come tomorrow.

Training
FS 3x108 (PR), 5x103
BS 2x6x100
BP 3x6x70
SVJx2x5, RVJ 3x5 (PR see notes below)

FS notes:
Good sign that the triple wasn't an RM. I think I had another rep in me! Hopefully I can drive my triple up and over 110kg next week.

BS notes:
These are getting heavy/hard. I want to keep my BS going but not sure how I'll do that. Either way that was probably the last 2.5kg jump, i mean I could probably force 2x6x102.5 next time, but I don't seem me getting 105 the following session. So maybe it's time to go 2kg jumps now. Will see.

BP notes:
Love and hate relationship with bp continues. Today was a better day. Think my pec problems are now in the distance. Thank God!

Jump notes:
Started off real sluggish, couldn't land any 1 hand dunks, svj or rvj. But i think the ball was slippery or something. So i switched to two hands. That worked better. Changed up my dunk approach, tried from the sides. I like these a lot.

Then tried something completely different, an RVJ double hand reverse. Got it! My first non-trivial dunk. Although it's probably still a trivial dunk for anyone who can dunk, but to the non-discerning eye it probably looks a lot more impressive. Wish I had video but was too dark. Best part is I can do it consistently, so it goes in my bag of dunks which now has 3 dunks. Haha. Can't wait to try that in the gym!

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My friend saw my front squat PR and said I did well but that I'm really skinny and I need to gain weight. What you guys have been telling me all along. I told him I will do just that come winter, just need to get this (never ending) cut finished first. Id like to get into the 150s by end of March. That would make me happy. But is it too ambitious? Probably not achievable but it gives me something to aim for..