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Hmmmmm......

Training
FS 2x120, 0Fx132
BS 2x130, 2x2x132.5, 2x130, 8x115 (PR)
WCU 6x88, 3x98, 4x93

Squat notes:
Legs were jelly, had no desire to front squat heavy but i forced myself to attempt a 132kg max single anyway, was too heavy to bounce out though. Im trying to get my old groove back, i had this thing where i went knees out halfway up the concentric right after hitting the sticking point so to prevent upper back rounding. It's hard to believe how elaborate my technique has to be to get a good safe front squat but i'll get there soon.. just hpe i dont hurt myself before that happens. On a stronger day i'm probably good for 135kg right now though.

BS, i could have tripled that first set of 132.5kg, i had meant to do triple with 130kg but wore myself out before i could attempt them. Just wasn't a good day for squatting so all things considering, i did ok.

Upper notes:
Sucks but it looks like my squat obsession is going to get in the way of my upper body ambitions. Why am i even bothering, not like I care that much about my squat, would rather look like i lift if i really had to pick a goal but yet here we are, still putting squats first..

Hey Entrophy. How's it going?

I see your post about your lack of enthusiasm for squats and your want to look like you lift. What's stopping you from prioritising your upper body ambitions?

BW: 85.6kg

Like I said in the goal thread, i'd like to be a lean 85kg before I can even think of weighing 90kg again. There is no point being 95kg like i was in december with good lifts if it means i'm 10kg overweight. Now if i can beat my PRs while weighing 85kg or less, i'm doing really well and can build on that in future by letting my bodyweight climb up to 90kg while getting a lot stronger in that time and then i can cut to say a lean 87kg before repeating the process. So lets own 85kg before chasing 90-95kg, which is really where I should be for my height and power forward ambitions. Im an undersize PF in a unathletic SF body, worst of both worlds.

Training
FBS 1x130
BS 2x2x135, 7x120 (PR)
OHP 3x2x60, 5x55
AbW 3,1
CND - 10min @ 7kph, 0incline (new exercise!)

Squat notes:
After failing 132.5kg FS last time, i figured i wasn't ready to go 2x120, 1x127.5 and then 1x132.5. Instead i tried 2x120, 1x127.5, 1x130 and got it. That 130 was a max effort lift though. I think i repeat it until i can get the 130kg easier, then i'll be able to progress it a little. Right now i'm getting my ass kicked by front squats. I find myself passing out like a bitch just unracking it and holding the bar before the heavy singles and have to do 2 re-rack and re-attempt it. I forgot how hard i had to work before to get used to front squatting :/ I hate that blanking out feeling like you're about to pass out with a heavy ass bar on your chest.

BS wise, im doing pretty awful too. I wanted to do triples or doubles with 135-137.5kg, in reality the 135 doubles were close enough to 2RM that i had no business thinking of doing more sets. Hopefully just a bad day. I want to do lots of doubles with say 137.5-140kg before i can consider something accomplished.

Upper body notes:
Had this crazy idea to try an RSR inspired program with my OHP. I'll basically use 60kg as my training weight and aim to master it over time to get six sets of sixes with it, hopefully that'll translate to some hypetrophy and strength gains.

Conditioning notes:
There we go, added in that postworkout conditioning session i've been talking about for ages. Will stick to it, not trying to do anything amazing, just be consistent and keep doing it, slowly improve and hopefully i can build up my fitness to a decent level without much fuss.

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Training
FBS 1x132.5
BS 1x140, 1Fx137.5, 3Fx130, 6Fx122.5
WCU 3x87, 2x97, 3x102, 5x93, 6x90

Squat notes:
Excited that i progressed my FS. It was a technique thing. For some reason i was slowing, almost pausing into/outta the bottom. And on my warmups with 100kg i had the flash of an idea to try bouncing into-and-out-of which made that set very easy. The following set i bounced up 120kg for a double, probably could have done a triple which is novel because i'd been owned by 120kg doubles previously. So happy to improve something. The rep was ugly as shit though.

Finally squatted 140kg. Yay for me lol.  How pathetic. I used to warm up with a 140kg front squat, now im happy about backsquatting it lol. Whaever, progress is progress. I need to work hard though, this should be something i'm repping for 8s not psyching up for a ME single.

My goal from last session was to do a PR of 8x120kg today -- but -- having failed the 4th rep of 130kg, i knew i had zero chance of repping 8 with 120kg, so i thought go for the 7x122.5 PR instead, and came close but failed the 7th. Next time i guess i'll repeat 122.5kg and try get 8 before moving on to 125kg. Or maybe just go for 125kg and try to get 6-8 reps, we'lll see how it goes. As sensible as it is to first get 10x120kg before adding weight, i really dont care much for 120kg - would rather work my way up to 8x130kg instead knowing that whenever that happens, i'll probably, automatically also be good for 10x120kg. Have to balance hunger and greed for progress with patience.
 
Too many failures this session :/

You should do more speed work... if there's anything that jumped right at me in your videos, is the TOTAL lack of speed and quickness. You basically walk to a jumping spot and jump. You look like an old man yet you have a lot of strength in comparison to your displayed power.

So the problem must be in the strength to power transfer.

Thats just counterintuitive in my mind. You say you lack reactivity so you avoid doing things that can help your weakness?  I think you'd see more gains by attacking your weaknesses over trying to cover them up with your strengths. I'm not saying neglect working on your strengths (which is strength in your case) but by pulling your weaknesses up you become a more well rounded athlete.