Tonight I finished prep for Nationals. If I give the abreviated version it sounds great a single 5kg PB on the squat however if you were there spotting me....
The single tonight was like a red headed step child at a family reunion: just damn ugly and no one wanted to look at it.
What tonight reminded me was how important technique is in the squat. I just haven't handle enough weight this prep and I am falling into bad habits. Tonight I did my famous sow sit back and just fucked the rep completely. This bad habit has two elements firstly I bring my stance in just a little too narrow which accentuates my site back to get depth. Then I tend to exaggerate the sit back and similarly don't drop into the wraps hard enough. The remedy is simple cue for wider stance and drop through onto the wraps hard.
As I mentioned all of this is a result of not enough time under the bar but as I drove home tonight I am okay with where I have got to. Despite all of the lost time this year and particularly in the last three months, I finished my prep with a deadlift double at my PB weight, equalled my PB bench and set a pretty awful 5kg PB squat.
My results are less than ideal given my goals after last years event. But given the trials and tribulations personally over the last 5 weeks that had me about to cancel my trip to Nationals I still set PB's so I am going in with confidence.
I will leave it all on the platform and be proud to compete
Stay Strong
Thomo
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