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OK so I'm doing the JackM split, taking weight gainers, creatine, vitamins, energizers, ZMA, I try to rest well, doing stretching, eating better... basically doing everything. Yet my squat still sucks so hard. My form has degraded as well.

I go with 2 leg workouts per week, one with 3x5 squats + assistance (so far used natural GHRs, now I'm using straight leg deadlifts supersetted with leg curls since the natural GHRs were wrecking my knees like no tomorrow) and one workout going 4x12 with bulgarian split squats + the same assistance exercises.

I also do 3x5 low box depth jumps before the squats, and some hang cleans/hang snatches in the upperbody days (the upperbody days are following the lowerbody days).

THE PROBLEMS IS - my squat sucks. I wasn't any better than last week today, struggling to do 120x5x3. Form was bad.

What should I do? I was thinking of going with what Lance suggested, one day of MSEM type stuff, maybe even in the mold that Kelly suggested (like work up to a 90% of 1RM then take 10% off and do singles with that for 8 sets or so) in one day and some explosive stuff in another, maintaing the hypertrophy day unchanged (4x12 BSSs).

So basically I'd have 3 workouts instead of 2, one MSEM, one explosive stuff squatting (like 6x2 with 60% of 1RM) and one 4x12 BSS.

Having 2 squat workouts instead of one should also increase my squatting movement efficiency as well, as that seems to be lacking right now + the benefits of having a very heavy lift in one day + the benefits of having a very explosive lift in another.

So the whole thing would be like this:

WO1: 8x1 squat singles
WO2: 6x2 with 60% explosive squats
WO3: 4x12 BSSs

What do you guys think?

THE PROBLEMS IS - my squat sucks. I wasn't any better than last week today, struggling to do 120x5x3. Form was bad.

What are your strengths and weaknesses? Videos of your lifts would be good. Identify the specific weak points and then add an appropriate assistance ex to address it. I remember chrisbro suggested it to me a few months ago in my log but i only now came around to understanding the merit of this approach. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. You could fix a weakness and improve your form and tonnage just by identifying what needs the most attention.

By the way - my PR in the squat occured during the chezkenny programming, with 6 squat days per week (2 full squat days, 4 explosive half squat days).

I wary of trying for PRs. I'd rather lift submaximall and faster than try for grinding PRs. I have no spotters and even if I do squat in the cage, which is unadjustable, I wouldn't want to fail a lift, even there.

Ever since 15 years old I started going to bed at ~3AM because I used phone internet (dial-up) and the phone bill was 10 times less when used from 23 well into the night (up until 6 AM).

So I started and have continued to do it even when I got fiber optic internet. I also watched NBA and all 7 ET games start at 2AM here (it's a 7 hour difference). So I was sometimes going to bed at ~5-6 AM.

Obviously this has messed up my circadian rhythm over time, and I get "awake" at ~19 hours or so. Until then I'm sluggish etc.

At least this is my theory, I think it's pretty logical.