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Going into today’s squat workout my lower back was a little sore, still recovering from Friday deadlifts.  My strategy was to get some squat work in without taxing my back too much since I want upper body to be at 100% for my bench press workout in two days.  My approach was to keep the squat weight low and just do more reps, hopefully working legs well but not being too hard on the back.  I did a warm-up 45×12, then decided to start at a high weight of 225 and do sets of 10, dropping the weight by 10 pounds for each set.  Starting out I had visions of going all the way down to 135, but only if I felt up to it.  I did 225, 215, 205, 195 and 185, then decided to stop there when I started to get tired.  On a normal day I would have pushed it and did the next five sets, but I didn’t want to take a chance of totally exhausting myself and not being in the best form possible for bench pressing.  After squats I did 4 sets on the leg extension machine and then did some ab work, 9 sets in all.  Cardio today was 45 minutes walking in the morning, 12 minutes on the arc trainer after lifting, and 500 reps jump rope after abs.  A pretty decent workout, don’t think I did too much, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my chest and back will be up to the challenge 48 hours from now!

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