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Workout SSSUUUCCKKKKEEEDDD tonight. Got some shit going on that is way in my head today and everything suffered as a result. Fuck it. I didn't get to the gym until 8ish, which was actually great because it meant people were leaving and I had space. At 6:30 the place is a madhouse. Anyway, here was the work out:

Warm up as before

Work

• Depth jumps 3x5
• Front squat x3x210 FAIL, x5x210 WIN but spot in my upper back that I strained a couple months ago started acting up, so last set was back squat 5x210, good depth (deeper than video)
• OHP x3x110

Cool down

• Stretch
• Foam roll...ouch
• Shoot hoops x10 minutes

Switching to back squats for Friday, that spot on my back is freaking me out.

Workout today:

Warm up circuit xa bunch

• Jump rope xa bunch
• Mobility drills

Work

• Front squat 3x5x200
• Bench press 3x5x155
• Dead lift 1x5x280

Cardio/cool-down

• row x12 mins @2:08 pace, ~150 bpm
• stretch

I've mentioned before that I'm stupid. This held true today as I did the same weight for squats as last Friday, despite having the correct weight written down beforehand. It wasn't super hard, though, so I'll try upping by 10# on Wednesday. Dead lifts need to be more careful; 5x280 is pretty easy and I can lift it with shitty form. If that makes sense. Didn't feel bad, exactly, but I know they were ugly. I need some straps, too. Adjusted my position a tiny bit on the bench and it felt better than last week. Less wobbling with the bar on the way up, straighter path.

Quote from: LBSS on October 15, 2009, 12:56:24 pm

Also, I love that the "related videos" are all of babies.  ???

its because of your tags.
when you dont enter tags youtube puts the name of the video as tags, so related videos are all the vids from people who did the same and happen to have the same camera brand ( so same initial filename ).
Seems there are more silly dads than VJ trainees doing that! LOL

Haha, I thought it must be something like this. Thanks for the explanation.

DOMS today, particularly left quad. If history is any indicator, tomorrow will suck tremendously. Also, I think I should switch to back squats. Not sure why I thought I could outsmart the program, maybe because this one time I read Mike Robertson only uses front squats and blah blah some dumb shit like that. Everyone else and their mother uses back squats as the foundation. I'm going to keep the weights the same to start off, though, because I have a lot less practice with them than FS. Need to take some more video to make sure I'm getting deep enough.

Like a dumbass, I had some friends in town and got blackout drunk Saturday and Sunday nights (no work yesterday, thanks to this dick: http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Christopher_Columbus). I was peachy on Sunday but yesterday could barely move, so gym was not happening. Again, I am dumb. Wednesday will be my official First Day of the new plan.

Haha, not quite 27, more like 25.5. I got ~27 before lifting, though. Felt like a max. I've thought about get lifting shoes, maybe I should just suck it up and do it. Thanks for the feedback, man.

...edit: I FELL ASLEEP ON THE TOILET AFTER SQUATTING... crazy... i was dying.

holy crap!

looks good.. but will you be doing front squats 3 days a week? if so, why not sub something else in for one of the days.. ?

Because I think too damn much and Starting Strength has three days a week of squatting. I'm already messing with it because I can't back squat to full depth and I can't power clean so I'm depth-jumping instead. If I try to modify it any more what I'll end up with is nothing like the original. Instead, it will be my own BS again. I figure, leave the rest the way it is and see how it goes for two months. It does seem like a lot of squatting, but then again, I'm still relatively a newb so lots of volume will probably help with technique/neural adaptations/whatever. After 2.5 months (program is 8 weeks, plus two weeks for deload...2.5 months) or so I'll probably mix it up.