Friday light squat

Warm up
bike
hyperextensions - 50
rollover into v sit
mountain climber

Back squat
135x1x3, 185x1, 225x1, 275x1, 315x1, 365x1, 405x1x8, 425x1, 440x1

hip, lat and hamstring stretching
- trying to make sure my back doesn't tighten up again.

kettlebell swing 80 pounds 2x20
- I could really tell I've only been doing singles lately, lol.

the tweak in my back turned into captain manglitis striking again, was up till about 6am cause I couldn't find a way to sleep where I wasn't cramping up. Checked my blindspot driving and my whole left side cramped up like crazy and I just about crashed... fun times. Had to take it slow tonite, was semi expecting to have to do singles with 315... but I got up to 405 and they were moving well. On the plus side, the voltaren gel on my knees is helping quite a bit, besides the totalled back my warm ups went pretty well.

My squat in general is really starting to take off, numbers will come and everything, but my form has never felt this good. I've taken videos of nearly every squat for almost 2 years, watched every half decent squat video on youtube, read every article there is on squatting, tried every shoe I could get my hands on, every style I could think of... and finally I'm starting to feel solid. Now that my body is in the right position and I don't feel like I'm going to face plant every rep, I'm very excited to work on the little things, I've been able to get tighter and tighter all the time lately just because I'm not thinking about the big things anymore. Pretty sweet. Basically I was trying to stay too upright, and I'd be forced into the right position by the weight, hence the shakiness... then I'd catch my torso, hope the bar wouldn't roll up my back, and in general hope for the best... now I'm just bending forward a bit, sitting back a bit more, and now things look the way they should.