I do believe a contribution from me is long over due!
as with last time 7 days after finishing my 5's of HST and having done a week of cardio I had a stab at a few RM's today. Been on lower carbs most of the week but ate a mound of couscous the size of my head last night. I had strained my shoulder throwing american football last weekend but it was about 98% today after some RC & stabilisation work throughout the week.
My squat lately whilst I've been pushing decent numbers hasn't felt particularly comfortable or natural, I find front squatting fantastic but back squatting a little unnatural. Never used to so I will be addressing this.
My previous 1RM stood at 170KG on a smith back at uni which was actually for a friends dissertation analysis (was wired up with electrodes on my quads & hamstrings). I'd only ever done 160KG x 2.
Today:
60KG x 10
80KG x 2
100KG x 1
120KG x 1
140KG x 1
170KG x 1 (freeweight PB, went quite nicely)
175KG x 1 PB. This was much deeper than I thought It was! would have liked a bit more of control, however there was no bounce. There was a stall for about 2 seconds at about 30degrees above parralell however once past it shot up
Pretty sure I was leaning far to far forward which caused the stall and is likely the cause of a hip niggle I've been having.
Bench as of my last cycle of HST was up 5KG to 130KG. As of this today:
OHP: bar x 10
40KG x 6
Bench:
60KG x 8
80KG x 2
100KG x 1
135KG x 1 PB. (A bit of a stall where the triceps come in to the lift for about 3 seconds, but squirmed my way through).
Looking forward to smashing a deadlift PB in the next few months. I had 210 of the floor last year but the previous PB of 205 had taken it out of me and I haven't tried since.
As they stand:
BennyC -------- 135 / 175 / 205+(S) -------- [89] ---- 515
Been keeping an eye on your IF and HST thread too so I think we all know you deserve every Gram of those lifts.