If you want to hold yourself to powerlifting standards, you should at least do yourself a favor and squat like a powerlifter. If you were to sit back more rather than forward, you’d squat the same exact distance as you’re currently doing, but your “depth” would be lower. That’s honestly all it is. With forward knee traction, it’s harder and harder to get the hip below the knee, but if you keep the shins vertical, the distance gets much shorter.
That’s why the Westside guys are always shouting “BACK BACK BACK BACK BACK UP UP UP UP UP!” It’s effectively a good morning at one point, because rules are stupid.
It’s why I like the strongman set up better, where you squat until the plates hit an object, and then squat back up. It’s about squatting for DISTANCE, not for depth. Go as deep as you want: you just gotta move the bar a certain distance in space.
Better training week than last. Was less tired and SI less pissed. Coach changed strategy somewhat with squats and is letting me autoregulate more. He also added split squats
Work is really ramping up. I like it but I feel like I don’t have enough energy or focus to get as much of it done as I need every day.
My official start date is July (I move in June) but I’ve been working for him since last October.
We have 2 projects that need to be rushed so it’s crunch time
Most of the work is data cleaning and analysis. He wants to train me more so I also give input into theory and models
That’s awesome. I’ve watched a few videos set inside there. My father was a tank commander in the mid 1960s, stationed in W. Germany. To hear him describe it, he mostly drank beer, ate schnitzel, and chased frauleins while occasionally training for war against the Soviets. He would have reenlisted in 1967 if he wasn’t guaranteed to rotate to Vietnam.
It doesn’t look like they have any of the M60s he operated there, but they sure do have a lot from WWII.
Random training week since back wasn’t cooperating for most of it. Focused on lunges and ended up doing close to 20 hard sets of them over the course of the week
Was able to do squats yesterday so back to regular programming
Was actually pretty good considering that I didn’t squat or deadlift for a week. Squats flew up relative speaking and deadlifts weren’t too hard. I can consistently hit 285 for triples without too much issue. I did take the conventional paused deadlift easy out of caution.
After this week, coach is going to put me on a peaking block so I can test my deadlift max before going on trip
More of a life note: my sleep hasn’t been great. Having trouble staying asleep so I only get 6-7 hrs in bed.
