What's up everyone?
It's squat day!
As usual, Tarick is joining me. It's our first squat workout at the new weight percentages so we were excited about going a little heavier.
Warm up:
As far as the warm up goes, we actually did the same warm up I did yesterday because Tarick thought it looked fun and wanted to do it. Needless to say, my shoulders were extra roasted after this lol
Working sets:
After the fail on the first workout with 340lbs I was pretty worried going into 360lbs for a top set.
As you'll see in the video, I actually ended up failing the first attempt. The bar was a little higher on my traps than it should have been and ended up folding me over but I wasn't about to have a repeat of that failed workout so I reracked it and got back under the bar.
I focused on having a better, more stable walk out and slower controlled descent so I wasn't slamming down and trying to come to an abrupt stop at parallel. I think that is an issue I really need to work on, sometimes I'm just too anxious to get the reps done and don't pay enough attention to a controlled rep.
I'm definitely going to be improving on that moving forward.
Front squats:
We went 10 lbs heavier on each set since we're in the final block. I think we could have gone up 15 lbs, but whatever maybe next week we will.
I feel like we both moved really well on front squats.
Conditioning:
This one was fun, but unfortunately I forgot to start the timelapse so you'll just have to use your imaginations haha. Tarick used the ab wheel and I did toes to bar.
The +19 and +30 on my side are double unders. Since there was only one spot for the box jumps, I ended up waiting on Tarick to finish his box jumps before I could start mine so I cranked out 19 d.u.'s, and after I finished my third round I decided to do d.u.'s until he finished his final round and ended up getting another 30.
Rep count:
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Ok guys I hope you enjoyed watching me overcome that failure and I'm looking forward to hearing about your workout as well!
Have a great night!