friday medium squat

Fought with the flu again today, did my best to get my meals and fluids in, lots of powdered bcaas and crystal light, minum 3 litres a day. rushed my warm up a bit, which I didn't like. I've taken a lot of time on my warm ups, and stayed relatively healthy for almost 2 years, I haven't always made progress but that was for other reasons, impo. I'm doing my best to iron them out now. and I'm hoping it will show at the meet in form first, then numbers later.

back squat
315x1
365x1
405x1
455x1 - all felt deep to me, but my training partners let me know they weren't looking as deep as usual, this close I'd rather chill, know I did some work that I'm going to recover from, to be able to hit a big squat 2 weeks out, then maybe another 10 days out, then slow it down a bit, but keep volume up. Kinda got carried away tonite, and that can happen from time to time, but it's just turning it into a positive as fast as possible to keep things going well. everyone got through their main sets very well tonite, Cameron did some strong doubles with 425, and he's so stiff and tight right now, I know he's going to recover with the week off, and just smash all his old weights. He's so controlled you don't even need to spot him. he's starting to look explosive. After this we may need to loosen up his hips a bit, but right now he's getting into position on squats and just smashing them, but I feel it's a bit touch on his deadlift. He smashed a 315 and chain bench, that I got 363 off of, and he did it better than me, narrowly missed 325 with chain, and this was after doing about 6ish reps with 350 over a few sets. I think he's definitely going to bench 380, on his way to 405 for May 2012.

Jordan hit a strong rep with 205 tonite, but missed with 215, his technique has come a long way, and still has a ways to go, and I'm trying to get him to the technique that he'll need to squat 315. He's twisting much less all the time and is now just working on his timing out of the hole, I'd love to get him in olympic shoes, hopefully for xmas, then I think he's going to be on his way to 315, he can do a lot of work at top end weights and doesn't seem to get tired. He's 16, 6'3'' 180 pounds, and I have him eating his way up to 200 first, then 220 after that... I think kade was squatting 315-365 around that age, but if jordan is doing that by 17-18, then that's pretty good I think, and honestly, I'm more than confident I can get him there. I try to squat with him as often as I can right now, he's my height and pulls his weight and does a ton of extra stuff for everyone, this makes it very easy to work with him so much. I've been squatting and pulling with Cameron a lot lately, he's a great training partner. hard worker, and really positive guy.

Looking forward to the weekend, have a few small things to do, but mostly rest up to start another week strong.