friday squat

felt crappy headed in, fortunately things went fine.

warm up
front squat

back squat with chains
405 single
-then moved into walkouts with standups
405x3
495x3
545x3
-was hoping just feeling some heavier weights would get my cns more used to the weights I need to be using. I'll take this slow, but unless I get too heavy, they can't hurt.

gh sit ups
-focused on curling into the sit up.
-I hear some people think these can really mess up your back, I generally find them just fine. I really focsed on curling into these, and not using my hips.
2x10

Side bends
2x10

The 405 squat felt heavy, everyone told me it was really fast, I don't know why I mindfuck myself on weights all the time, but generally, I'll make weights look easy, that feel really really heavy. I think doing some heavy stand ups will probably give me more confidence, but it would be nice for my weights to start feeling on my back. I always gained on my raw squat after I was in gear, even when my squat sucked. When I hit 600 in single ply, I could only squat around 435 raw, I'd totally lost my form from the gear, then I had to restart my squat and relearn it. It took a while to get to 500, and it's even harder getting much past it. but I always noticed my raw went up after some heavy gear training, for me I always thought that was a mental thing. I'm considering getting back into knee wraps just to see if getting 550-600 on my back would help me. It'll take me a bit to re learn how to use them, last time I put them on I got like 10lbs out of them, I expected them to immediately give me 50 lbs, I used to get around 70 out of knee wraps when I was more used to them. I've changed so many things since then, I'd hope for 50 right now, lol.