All this week I had thought that today's squats were going to be challenging. My schedule called for 3x8 (2nd week of 8's) in the squat followed by 5x5 of pause squats at 80% of the working weight. Everything fell into place nicely, energy levels were high and I just felt ready to have a big session.
Interestingly I had spent the previous 2 hours prior to the session taking my daughter to a fun centre. Pretty much for the whole time I crawled and chased my two year old across an obstacle course from hell. Regardless it gave the hips nice warm-up and by the time I reached the gym I as ready to go.
The 3 work sets went up fast and felt I had 3-4 reps in the tank each set. Pleasingly I felt really tight in the bottom of the squat and strong through the glutes and quads. I think the pause squats have really helped my build strength in the bottom position.
I finished off with Pendlay rows and then went back to the bench for some light wide grip benches. A couple of days ago I managed to jar my wrist on my last set of military presses and its been tended the last few days.In fact I couldn't bench well the previous session so to compensate I switched my day today to squats rather than heavy bench but I did get some light sets in with my wrist wrapped. I should be okay to bench again Tuesday and now I will be switching to a wider competition grip for the rest of my program.
I bumped into one of the other members after training, Liesh. She has great form on the deadlift and squat so I took the opportunity to spruik GPC and the great lifting in the womens events at the moment. I joked that over the next 3 months I am going to wear her down and have her lift in GPC this year!
Ten weeks to Nationals!
Stay Strong
Thomo
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