Squat night tonight and I was feeling pretty pumped for a good session. Unfortunately I was also under time pressure. It was one of those days, 5:30am work start, finish up a little early for once at 4:30pm then a mad dash to the gym so I can get to another appointment.
On this current routine I had 3 work sets of ten reps followed by assistance pause squats. Prior to getting under the bar I took plenty of light goblet squats to get the blood flowing. I think Dan John is a genius when it comes to promoting these. For a guy like me with less than optimal squat mobility, practising goblets on my off day for half an hour is really keeping the hips in good shape. The key to improving mobility with these is daily practise sitting in the bottom position. Importantly you have to avoid the rookie mistake, as many guys sit in the goblet without any focus on good form and simply end up reinforcing a shitty movement pattern.
Squats felt good and I feel my form is much much better. Interestingly I am not getting any of the adductor pain I had months ago and I certainly feel my back is in a great position, not perfect mind you but much better than it has ever been.
The only conundrum I have is whether to run this cycle raw with no wraps to my PB raw number and then use the following three weeks to wrap up and chase my overall best wrapped lift. Typically the routine I am on calls for wraps at week five but my gut is telling me to do the hard work build true raw numbers and the wraps will take care of themselves.
Given I had to change gyms this year and no longer have access to a monolift there is a risk that my technique is going to be a bit off. Regardless I can always pay for some casual sessions at PTC or the Pit in the final weeks of my cycle to mitigate this.
I am disappointed not to be doing states but I am nowhere near ready so will just hope they still run a qualifier for Nationals in May.
Ok time for my final meal of the night.
Stay Strong
Thomo
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