training 12.14.2012

Cube week 5, day 3 -- squat max

B-Ala, creatine, knee sleeves, relatively loose briefs (60s to fully on), dynamic work to warm up.  Used a belt on the heavy squats.

Squat x1 @85%: 290kg, flew up
           x1 @92.5%: 315kg, easy but not fast
           x1 @97.5%: 330kg, felt pretty heavy, but came out of the hole smoothly
           x1 @102.5% + reverse band: 350kg with an average band -- too easy, felt quicker than 330kilos

Squats, 3x12 @50% rawdog: very easy, though I was a little wobbly by this point

Step-ups, 3x20 with a ton of weight on my shoulders -- sucked wind

GHR, 3x12 with a monster mini band just to hit the hams a little extra

Back raises x60

Raining here again.  Big wins at work this week, but it isn't real until the check arrives; nevertheless, should help.

Just to editorialize a little (feel free to tune out now -- thanks for checking in), the gun didn't kill the kids.  Blaming the guns is a cowardly act, people, as it absolves the whack-job of responsibility.  80k people die every year from alcohol related incidents -- almost 10k from drunk driving -- but no one is calling for bans of cars or booze.  Take and insist on personal responsibility for actions.  It was a horrible, unspeakable thing that happened, but it was a human being that did it.  And, I might add, in a location that bans guns.

Enough of that.  Go hug someone important to you, turn off the television, and listen to each other for a while.  And eat a lot.

Later.