Personal Best on Squats
I felt good doing squats today, decided to try to improve my personal best of 335. I got up to 330 where I was just going to add five pounds at a time and do one rep, but I ended up doing 2 reps at 330 and felt like I could have done more. Feeling brave I put on 20 more for a total of 350. I was using a cage so knowing the safety bars were there if I had to bail out helped my confidence. When I got that bar on my shoulders and felt the weight pressing down I was determined to do it. Before I knew it the rep was done. I was watching myself in the mirror and I wasn’t happy with how deep I went. So I did another! And this time I went almost to parallel, and coming out of the hole was hard, but I did it. Two reps at 350? I would never have guessed I would get that result today. During my workout I also did some traps, some quad work on a couple of machines, and some high rep sets of calf presses on the leg press machine. I focused mostly on lower body today, I want to have my upper body at its strongest when I do a failure test for my bench press program. That will be tomorrow, if the day goes as planned.
August 16, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Good job Tony! That is a big lift!
August 16, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Woo-hoo! Quite a jump with your squat - see what a little (lot?) of confidence can do? Keep up the great work - you’ll need to keep your squat weight ahead of your bench weight after all.