Archives For high bar squat

Warming up by hitting the heavy bag is pretty fun. Kicking the bag repeatedly seems to get rid of any hip tightness.

Just have to try not to over do it.

Also working on no-belt high bar squats and no-belt deadlifts.

Heavy Bag

  • Punches: 3 minutes
  • Punches: 3 minutes
  • Punches: 3 minutes
  • Kicks: 3 minutes
  • Kicks: 3 minutes

Breathing Paused High Bar Squat

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused High Bar Squat

No belt.

  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: MISSED
    • Easy to pause in the hole (feels like I'm comfortably sitting there), but couldn't keep my chest up when coming up. Got pinned.

High Bar Squat

No belt.

  • 460 lb: 1 * PR!
    • No belt 1RM. Harder than I anticipated.
  • 410 lb: 3
    • TOUGH.

Deadlift

Hook grip.

No belt.

Felt a blister forming on my left thumb before deadlifting. It's gotten bigger after deadlifting.

  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3
  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1
  • 500 lb: 3 * PR!
    • 3 rep max with no belt and hook grip
    • Got 1 rep last week, which was a 1RM.
  • 410 lb: 5

Dragon Flags

  • 7

Foam Rolling

Behind The Neck Lat Pulldown

  • 70 lb: 15

Ab Wheel

  • 6

Band Pull Aparts

Shoulder Dislocations

  • 10

L-Sit Pull Ups

With Rogue Cannon balls.

  • Body weight (~205 lb): 6

Breathing Paused Low Bar Squat

No belt.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused Low Bar Squat

No belt.

  • 410 lb: 1

High Bar Squat

  • 460 lb: X,X
    • Tried to go for a paused beltless, followed by a beltless PR. NOPE.

Low Bar/High Bar Squat

Alternating low bar and high bar squats, so first set is LB, 2nd set is HB, etc.

  • 417.5 lb: 3,3,3,3,3,3
  • 377.5 lb: 5,8

Reverse Grip Bench Press

Paused.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 3
  • 280 lb: 1
  • 330 lb: 1
  • 370 lb: 1

Reverse Band Reverse Grip Bench Press

  • 410 lb: X
    • Black bands
    • About 55 lb of resistance (assistance?) at the bottom. So the the weight ranges from ~360 lb at the bottom to 410 lb at the top.

Reverse Grip Bench Press

  • 320 lb: 3,3,3,3,3
    • Last week 4 sets, this week 5 sets.
  • 300 lb: 5,7
    • Wanted 8 on the last set, but couldn't get it.

Dragon Flags

  • 6

Foam Rolling

Behind The Neck Lat Pulldown

  • 70 lb: 15

Ab Wheel

  • 6

Band Pull Aparts

Shoulder Dislocations

  • 10

L-Sit Pull Ups

With Rogue Cannon balls.

  • Body weight (~200 lb): 6

Breathing Paused Low Bar Squat

No belt.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused Low Bar Squat

No belt.

  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1
  • 500 lb: 1
    • Belted up.
    • I should start tracking paused squat PRs...

Low Bar Squat - Reverse Bands

  • 550 lb: 1
    • Black bands. About 80 lb of assistance at the bottom, so the weight throughout the entire range of motion is roughly 470-550 lb.

Low Bar Squat

  • 415 lb: 3,3,3

High Bar Squat

  • 415 lb: 3,3,3

Low Bar Squat

  • 375 lb: 5

High Bar Squat

  • 375 lb: 5

Reverse Grip Bench Press

Paused until work sets.

  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 3
  • 280 lb: 1
  • 330 lb: 1
  • 370 lb: 1
  • 320 lb: 3,3,3,3
    • Last week 3 sets, this week 4 sets. Next week, 5 sets.
  • 300 lb: 5,5

Breathing Paused High Bar Squat

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused High Bar Squat

Belt at 460 lb.

  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1

High Bar Squat

  • 405 lb: 10 * PR!
    • 10 rep max!
    • +35 lb PR

Mat Pulls

Tired after 405x10!

6 mats.

Hook grip.

Straps combined with hook grip at 500x5.

  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3
  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1
  • 500 lb: 1
  • 550 lb: 1
  • 600 lb: X
  • 550 lb: X
  • 500 lb: 5

Legs are feeling pretty sore. I guess taking 1 week off and jumping right back into squatting yesterday will lead to some DOMS.

Breathing Paused High Bar Squat

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused High Bar Squat

  • 410 lb: 1

High Bar Squat

  • 460 lb: 2
    • Wanted 5 (yeah right) but the second rep was pretty tough. Not recovered enough for a set of 5 yet. Moving on.

Suitcase Deadlift

Hook grip.

  • 140 lb: 5
  • 190 lb: 3
  • 230 lb: 3