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Got 8 Squats At 250 Pounds This Morning

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After my form breaking a good bit on the second heavy rep for my last cycle of 5/3/1 I knew what I had to do. I decided to knock some weight off my training max. It’ll get back up there in a few cycles and hopefully, I’ll be able to do better.

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Heavy Squats Felt Easy Today

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Today was the day I decided to get my 5/3/1 heavy squats done for this week. They were at a A heavy weight that was getting into my head, so I wanted to avoid letting the thoughts eat away at me.

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Good Halloween In The Home Gym

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I had a good day in the home gym today. Despite my knee bugging me, I got a conservative triple at a very heavy weight on the back squats. I beat my old score on a repeat WOD. I even wore my running sucks shirt with my cheetah costume because it’s Halloween, so why not have fun?

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Squat Day!

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I am starting my third cycle of 5/3/1 today and the first day up is squat day. I’ve been feeling really good with it. It was time to change things up.

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I Can Still Do Box Jumps

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I don’t normally do box jumps here in the home gym because we don’t have enough room for me to safely fail in my normal failure modes. The risk with me being legally blind is pretty high to and usually just isn’t worth it to me. Today I did them for the WOD and really did enjoy them. I do love jumping.

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Heavy Front Squat Single Felt Great!

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I am continuing with trying to get baselines for my lifts by doing heavy singles. Today, I stopped at 255 pounds for front squats. I felt like there was more in the tank, but I stopped there today, thinking it was best for this day.

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Made It!

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I finally make it back up to 265 repping back squats. That weight gets into my head a bit due to it being my old and ugly Crossfit max. I failed the last set but I’m good with just making it there.

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One Step Closer

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Today felt like I got one step closer to beating a longtime mental block. For my sets of five, I back squatted 260 pounds. That’s over my good form one rep max from when we went to Trinium.

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I Finally Squatted 255 For 3 x 5

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I finally passed a mental block on back squats today. I got through all three sets of them at 255. That was my old non ugly max in at Crossfit so anything above that is always in my mind that I’m breaking even when I’m not.

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Deadlifts

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I have always struggled mentally with deadlifts. I think it comes from my back rounding in the distant past. It’s not been an issue for a long time but it’s still on my mind. At the same time I love doing deadlifts.

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5/3/1

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I bought and read Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 book. It was nice to read the more detailed reasoning about his 5/3/1 program.

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