After a break from them for a couple of years, I decided to get back to the 20-rep squats back in August. I started super light, but the weight is slowly creeping up.
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I did my heavy presses this morning, then a light SHIFT WOD. A little while after the WOD I wanted to break out The Motivator (97-pound kettlebell) and accumulate 50 swings.
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I got my strict presses in from last week, then got my squats in from this cycle. After that, I got a WOD in, so it was a pretty busy day for me in the garage.
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I didn't sleep that well last night, and today was my first fairly heavy day for back squats since I was sick. It was tough, but I got one at 285 pounds.
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I slept poorly last night because we went to Joy's later than normal, and I drank more than normal. Still, my squats felt great for a lifetime personal record.
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Last night, I did not sleep well or long enough. I got a WOD in early this morning, then it got nice out, so I felt like doing squats. They felt good.
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Squats this morning, then did a WOD later with the strongman sandbag. I haven't done a dirty work like WOD in months. Most likely, the last one I did was last fall.
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I slept poorly last night, then tripped on the stairs in the middle of the night to get more water. Somehow, I was fine and got a squat double at 300 pounds.
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I've been holding off on my squats because I was sick and bloated, but I finally got around to this week's session this morning. I still wasn't feeling it, but I got them done.
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I slept well last night. I was anxious to get my squats in this morning. I mean, what better way to begin a new year than with my favorite exercise?
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Today I did box jumps in a WOD. It's the first time I've done those in a long time. I do like them, but our space and my vision make them less than ideal for me.
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I slept well last night, but still woke up with that holiday funk. Molly gave me a great Christmas gift, and then I gave myself one by doing my back squats today.
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We went to Joy's last night and then watched the Phillies game afterward. I didn't sleep long enough or well enough. I still got my heavy squats in this morning, and then we did a WOD outside this afternoon.
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Yes, I am still squatting and lifting. It's been pretty routine, so I've not been thinking much about posting. Today, even though I was a bit off center under the bar, they felt pretty good for as heavy as the weight was.
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It has been a few months since I did a WOD with the strongman sandbag. Today I finally did one with the 115 pound bag and was thrilled with how it went.
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Today was a good day. We got the vault WOD done together outside this morning. Later on in the afternoon, I decided to get my squats done early. The squats were very heavy, and I did better than I expected.
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This morning I woke up feeling good, so I was eager to get at my squats and see how they went. This was the the five plus AMRAP at 280 pounds. If I got the five, it would be a lifetime PR.
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I've been feeling off in the head from the time I woke up this morning. I still felt unbalanced from my head being stuffy when I did my heavy squats and that affected them. Even so, I still got them done.
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My knee still feels a little weak if I step wrong going down the stairs, but it's fine. Even with that, my heavy deadlifts today felt great. I just felt well-connected to the bar and weight.
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It has been quite a while since I played with the strongman sandbag. This evening the weather was cooperative, and I've had a few drinks, so I took it out to do a WOD. Forgot how heavy that 115 pounds is!
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Yesterday was a shitshow for me in the home gym. Everything that could go wrong did. Today was the opposite of that. Everything went great, felt great and I had no fuckups.
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Some days are like today. Nothing seems to go right at all. I couldn't get the bench lined up right. Used the wrong weight for bench press, and then I did a WOD that had tons of hop overs.
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Today I woke up feeling pretty good and energetic. I was eager to get out into the garage. As soon as I felt it was late enough, I got out there. I took my time and enjoyed myself while working up to seven back squats for my AMRAP PR set of five at 260 pounds.
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I had a great night's sleep last night. It was a bit cooler. My back squats felt wonderful this morning, and then I got in a SHIFT WOD later on in the day.
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After my form breaking a good bit on the second heavy rep for my last cycle of 5/3/1 I knew what I had to do. I decided to knock some weight off my training max. It'll get back up there in a few cycles and hopefully, I'll be able to do better.
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My back, well, more my side, has been nagging me a bit for the past week or so. For that reason, I have been staying on the conservative side for my lifts and WODs. I did that again today, but the heavy deadlift felt pretty good.
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I did not sleep enough last night. My brain woke me up in the middle of the night, then I just found myself wide awake. Eventually, I just got up and drank my coffee. Went and did my heavy squats at about eight this morning.
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I have been feeling a bit tired today. I was excited about getting at my back squats this morning, so I got out into the garage as soon as I thought it was reasonable. They felt crushingly heavy, but I got them done.
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The deadlifts for today felt pretty heavy, but they felt great. I did the bare minimum of five reps due to blisters on my hand from a long row the other day. The WOD was deceivingly tough, but in a good way.
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Today was one of those days that I didn't feel like doing shit. I woke up feeling tired and had a slightly stuffy head. Just enough shit in my throat to feel annoyed.
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Today I did the barbell version of a WOD from a few weeks ago. You had up to fifteen minutes to get up to a certain amount of weight over head. I went with power snatches.
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Today I did my heavy presses, and they were certainly tough, but I did better than I would have thought. Shortly after that, I did an old WOD that looked like it wouldn't be too bad. I was wrong. It was tough, but in a good way.
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Today I decided to start week three of my 5/3/1 early, so Molly could see my heavy set. I knew it would be a lifetime PR if I got more than two and was fully expecting to make it.
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Today was the day I decided to get my 5/3/1 heavy squats done for this week. They were at a heavy weight that was getting into my head, so I wanted to avoid letting the thoughts eat away at me.
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Today's WOD sort of repeat WOD. It had the same doublet of movements, but different numbers and a slightly different format. I was disappointed at my result at first until I relaxed that last time I used a lighter dumbbell.
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Today was a great day for the first week of back squats in the new cycle. Shortly after that, I figured I would give one of the regular versions of the Vault WOD a try and surprised myself on it.
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I had much higher hopes for my heavy back squat AMRAP today than I ended up getting. I think it's because my stomach has been feeling slightly off, but who knows. Some days will go like today.
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Last week I took a brief break from the garage gym. I had been feeling really run down for one. The other thing is my girlfriend had off work, and it was mostly great weather, so we spent a lot of time outside on the trail geocaching.
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I had a good day in the home gym today. Despite my knee bugging me, I got a conservative triple at a very heavy weight on the back squats. I beat my old score on a repeat WOD. I even wore my running sucks shirt with my cheetah costume because it's Halloween, so why not have fun?
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Some things I can cycle fast and others not so fast as far as dumbbells are concerned. Today I tried doing them in a death by WOD, and was cycling through the bigger sets easily and much more quickly than I imagined.
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I was up and awake late watching the Eagles game last night, so I thought I would feel tired and sluggish in the garage today. It turns out that I slept pretty good and felt great. I crushed my squats and a WOD.
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Sometimes a certain weight will always be a mental block for me. One example of that is my old max from when we went to the gym. Today in my 5/3/1 1+ day I did it for a triple.
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I am starting my third cycle of 5/3/1 today and the first day up is squat day. I've been feeling really good with it. It was time to change things up.
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Last year, my arm/ shoulder was fucked. I found that a lot of the dumbbell stuff made it feel worse, so I took a break. I started back up recently and am already benching the fifties with no discomfort.
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It has been a long time coming, but I finally switched my strength program to 5/3/1. I read the first book years ago and was going to try it out then when we were still going to Crossfit, but didn't.
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My girlfriend bought me a rogue strongman sandbag for my birthday. It's the bright green one, so I can see it better, plus she knows I like bright colors.
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The past couple of weeks I have been skipping the twenty rep squats because I was feeling quite run down. Today I did them and they felt great even though my knee was just pissy the past few days.
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I don't normally do box jumps here in the home gym because we don't have enough room for me to safely fail in my normal failure modes. The risk with me being legally blind is pretty high to and usually just isn't worth it to me. Today I did them for the WOD and really did enjoy them. I do love jumping.
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Even though my lifts, at least my squats and deadlifts were pretty heavy today they all felt fucking great. It was one of those days where it just felt really great to be in the garage doing my thing and moving weight in my war against gravity.
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I started of the new year right this year. I decided to test my Crossfit total to see where my strength stands. I was pretty happy with the results.
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Today was an entirely different story than a few days ago for me in the home gym. Not only did I crush it in my lifts, but I felt great while doing it. I love days like this.
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This morning I got back to my lifting. I've been on a short hiatus from it due to a side spasm. I did keep the weights lighter today but it just felt great to be back at it.
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We had a pretty busy day today. I attempted by twenty rep squats when we got home but aborted part way through. It just felt as if I was loading me knee weird. Later I struggled whit a WOD. Oh well, theirs gonna be days like this.
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Today was a mental day for me in the home gym. It's getting warmer out and my body's not adapted to the heat yet. That made for a day where all my lifts were mentally tough.
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Just before I was going to do my lifts this morning I got a pretty tough phone call. I still got my lifts done even though I wasn't focused and it made them pretty rough.
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I got my first strength session of the year in today. I wasn't evne sure if I was going to do anything since my trap isn't too happy with me but I got it done.
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I can't say that I am disappointed with it but my bench press success streak ended today. I failed the last rep of my sets of five bench press at 200 pounds. Bench is not a lift I'm good at.
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This Thanksgiving I am thankful for a lot of things. I'm especially thankful for us being fortunate enough to have our garage gym that is never closed.
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Today in the garage my lifts were heavy but they felt surprisingly good to me. There seems to be really no rhyme or reason to when they feel good and don't sometimes.
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It was a rainy day which made me want to do nothing. I forced myself to head out to the garage and do my strength. It was mentally tough but I was successful.
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I didn't really sleep enough last night. The next door dolt slamming her door woke me up too early. I did get into the home gym to do my strength and it actually went great.
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I woke up feeling really tired today. I did double WODs later in the day yesterday and then found myself laying awake watching the election results. Even so my strength went pretty well and then a WOD felt good.
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I felt like I ran myself down yesterday but still had a successful day today in the garage. I finally broke my mental plateau that I've been stuck at on strict presses.
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Some days come along and you know to lower the weight on a lfitr before even attempting it. Today was one of those days for me. I lowered my back squat weight.
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My flits were really tough today. My body didn't want to support any weight and my muscles seemed to be disconnected. I still got my lifting done but it was rough.
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Today was just one of those days when I didn't really feel like doing shit. I did get my lifting session in then a WOD. I feel pretty good about it and am happy with the results.
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I had an great day for my startng strength today. Everything felt great. I also got in a tough WOD folr me too. It's an example of aN awesome dry in the garage.
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For a while not I have been wanting to see how heavy front squats feel. Today I got around to trying one. I'd hoped to get a little heavier than I did but I was happy with it. Later I did a WOD.
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Everything was light today for my lifts but it still felt great to get under a bar. Everything felt great! I did a WOD too and that felt great also
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Sometimes even a failure is a success in some ways. I did make it through my first set of squats at 270 pounds. I didn't make all the sets. The big win here though is that I finally made it past my old Crossfit Trinium one rep max for reps!
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I have known for a long time that you should weight to turn on a refrigerator after moving it. Today I read a post explained why that is the case. It's great to learn something new.
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Today was a rough day for my lifting. It was hot and humid and I was hungry. I didn't sleep well thanks to drinking last night. Still Im happy with the day. I made the squats!
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I've never used a belt for my lifts and really haven't ever even felt the need for one. I've been curious though and considering buying one to try it out. It can't hurt to have another tool in the toolbox.
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I really had low expectations for my lifting today. My quad started cramping shortly before I was ready to head into the garage. My lifts all felt good though.
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Today I finally got a chance to break in the new dumbbells. I went with lighter ones than I could have because it's new to me in a WOD but I was happy with it. These are going to be a great addition to our gym.
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I am continuing with trying to get baselines for my lifts by doing heavy singles. Today, I stopped at 255 pounds for front squats. I felt like there was more in the tank, but I stopped there today, thinking it was best for this day.
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I finally make it back up to 265 repping back squats. That weight gets into my head a bit due to it being my old and ugly Crossfit max. I failed the last set but I'm good with just making it there.
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Today felt like I got one step closer to beating a longtime mental block. For my sets of five, I back squatted 260 pounds. That's over my good form one rep max from when we went to Trinium.
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I finally passed a mental block on back squats today. I got through all three sets of them at 255. That was my old non ugly max in at Crossfit so anything above that is always in my mind that I'm breaking even when I'm not.
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Yesterday I did two WODs that made my knee and hamstring pretty angry. Much to my surprise my lifts felt good this morning even with the anger in my legs.
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Last week, I skipped my twenty rep front squats, thinking my heavy single would be too much in the same week. I failed the twenty reps at 170 pounds this week not because of weight, but I pressed it too tightly against my neck.
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Today was a good day in the home gym. I did my lifts and they felt great. The WOD was tough but successful too. They always leave you feeling good.
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Installing the air conditioner in the gym's window is paying off now. I did my lifting with it on while it was in the middle 90s outside. Without the air I would have most likely failed due to heat.
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Even a bad day lifting is a good day but it' even better when they're great days lifting. Today and Sunday were both great day in the home gym for me.
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I did my lifts today and turned my back squats into paused ones again to mix things up. It was light anyways. I also got tomorrow's WOD done today.
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This morning I got my normal lifting session in. Later on we made up a WOD with our sandbags and the sled instead of a Street Parking WOD. We wanted to play with the sled. It's only the second time we've played with that new toy.
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Today's weather was pretty nice and it was mild. We took our bars and some bumper plates out into the backyard and did a deadlift WOD outside. That was nice.
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If there is one thing I can always count on it's the raging appetite the day after a deadlift WOD. Not matter how much I eat it doesn't seem to help.
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Today was another nice spring day. That mean we could do a WOD on the patio. I took my box out there to do box jumps! I love box jumps but don't have the space to safely do them inside in case I miss.
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With the rainy days recently I've been skipping running WODs and saving them for better weather. I've noticed that my running has greatly improved even though I am not doing much of it.
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My deadlifts finally failed today. That was at 305 pounds which is where I'd hoped to make it to. More would have been better but 305 was my realistic hope.
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Today I broke in my new plyo fix with a box jump WOD. I love box jumps sometimes and they're just fun. I have't done them in well over a year since jumping on the bench doesn't cut it for me visually.
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I haven't tried doing much of anything for strength over the past nine months or so. Today was my third day of starting so I was doing power cleans. I thought I'd give a strict press a try with the 135 pounds and did it pretty easily.
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I miss using my bright green j cups like I could at Trinium. I just can't see the black ones. They don't seem to make colored ones that would work with our rack. I have searched.
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I have been doing Street parking's twenty rep squat program. it looked interesting enough to try something different for squats. The worst part for me is the breathing.
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I have always struggled mentally with deadlifts. I think it comes from my back rounding in the distant past. It's not been an issue for a long time but it's still on my mind. At the same time I love doing deadlifts.
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