Saturday Squats

I managed to find some time before work in the afternoon to get to the gym. I planned on going after work last night at 11pm but my motivation was non-existent when I got off so I went home and stuffed my face.

I was happy I waited until today because I ended up having a good squat session, and my training partner around to spot.

Squats – 135X12, 225X5 (warmup), then 275X5, 295X5, 315X9, 225X 10, 135X 18

315X9 is a PR for me. I wasn’t trying to go for a PR by any means especially considering this is only the first week of the cycle. I may have underestimated my 1RM for the squat (405). It just went to show me how much more confidence having a good spotter gives you. I thought maybe 5-6 reps max but it just kept going. This was the first time trying squat shoes, but I’m not sure I can attribute the PR to those. I wore a belt after I got to 295, but no knee wraps the whole session.

This just makes me look forward to the rest of this cycle and the next, considering I haven’t even used knee wraps yet. I don’t have a huge amount of experience with them, but any time I have used them in the past they definitely helped. I usually do biceps on squat day, but was going to quit after squatting because I was spent. Then my training partner called me a pussy so I went ahead and did them.

Seated DB curl – 45X10, 10, 9.

Standing DB hammer curls – 45X 12, 10.

Ran the rack starting at 40’s to 20’s 5 lbs at a time.

Not a huge amount of volume for biceps, but I’m not going to be stepping on a stage in a banana hammock and a tan anytime soon (ever) so whatever.

Looking forward to week two of the cycle starting Monday with Military press. Not looking forward to trying to find time to train and the lack of sleep over the next few days....