Yeah, people have told me that in the past. It happens mainly with heavier weights. Bench progresses the best for me despite how little it concerns me, so I’m not too worked up about it for now
Wow. Nice grind! I don’t have the balls to grind out that last rep without safeties on lol
I lift such little weight that I don’t fear something killing me. Roll of shame works perfectly fine if I misjudge a rep, but I rarely ever do that anyway
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100 cal assault bike in 12:00
Planned to ride longer but already especially didn’t want to do this… slept poorly last night, long workday, and a headache. But I felt better after this.
But can u roll of shame off ur neck if bar ends up there?
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Just get rid of the collars/locks, that way, you can dump them one side at a time if need be. Makes a huge noise and possibly damage your floors, but better than the alternative. A broken rib will set your training back a lot.
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You’ve got some serious grit, holy crap.
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C1W3D4
2x3 tuck jumps and 2x3 broad jumps
Deadlift
135x5
160x5
180x3
200x7
Squat
100x5x5
BB Curl 50x10, 45x12, 35x13
100 band pull aparts
50 lateral raises
Not really pleased with my form and the amount of rest between reps here, but… it’s heavy. It’s still a PR to me. It’s nice because 200 is a psychological test for me. I almost decided to stop at 5 reps. I also think the squats looked a bit better today. I am nevertheless looking forward to trying out the belt squat. I ordered the necessary equipment last week. It will be tempting to try it next week even though I’m deloading.
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Did 5 hill sprints this afternoon. I’d be so much better at these if my legs were stronger.
Woman you have some serious fight in you, that’s badass. Squats looked much better this time and those deadlift and bench reps were a lot of a grind. Thanks for reminding me I need to try harder 
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Deload session 1
Squat
35x5
95x5
110x3
120x1
135x1
Press
35x5
47.5x5
55x3
60x1
67.5x1
4x6 pullups
1x10 pushups
100 band pull aparts
I don’t feel comfortable increasing my squat TM… once I’m around BW or higher on those, I start to really squat morning. I think I just get better at doing squat mornings. Then the issue is that the FSL weights are so light. I’m wondering if I should maybe try BBS or SSL without the traditional 5/3/1 ramping, or maybe I should even try Juggernaut. But I then I wonder if I’ll get worse because I’m not used to having a heavy weight on my back anymore…
/endrant
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You might be overthinking this. Trust the process. The method you’re using is a good one, you just need to believe in it and execute.
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I have the same predisposition with my squat. I think you can maybe continue increasing your TM but work hard on your FSL sets to break with your knees first and letting them travel forward fully before sitting down and really focus on standing back up using your quads by driving your back into the bar and only once you re-reach the depth at which your knees no longer travelled forward allow them to begin travelling back.
At the risk of bringing my own biases into this I’ve recently found tempo work and pauses to be a great coaching and cueing tool for myself. Maybe do that instead of normal reps at FSL weights.
And lastly, dead-start Frankenstein squats from the hole using cluster reps is 
PRs are PRs, they aren’t meant to be pretty. The grit and fight in those sets is fantastic, you should be really proud of that.
I think the squats looked a lot better. What changed?
If moving heavy weight in the squat is important to you, I think it’s a skill that you need to keep practising. I ran a stupidly high rep (sets of 20-50) squat program earlier this year and I got some phenomenal gains at high rep squatting, but that I’ve then had to get some practice in at heavier weights to get that to translate to top end strength.
Although I don’t like tempo work because I can’t get them to work for me. I’m sure it has value, I’m just not smart enough to get it to work for me.
That sounds sickening. But yeah, fine, I’ll try it. If I rip my trousers open again, you’re buying me new ones though
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Hey, bro, these tips weren’t for you I ain’t paying for any trousers of yours 
Just lift in your boxers…
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Do you think I can help with that?
When the weights get heavy enough or near enough to failure your body will go to where it’s strongest or else you fail or grind miserably through positions you aren’t as strong. Above this threshold no amount of cuing will do anything at least in the short term.
To some degree you’d be right that hitting reps in this patterns builds them maybe not in the way you want long term. One approach would be to accept that and just get stronger overall and fix the issue over time or when gyms open up again to get access to equipment.
Another approach is working below that threshold where technique starts doing things you don’t want. Could be a matter or weight or % 1RM on the bar or proximity to failure. Some people can take it all the way to 100% at a true max and have no break down but you probably know where you are at. With submax work you can put yourself in good positions and practice with a lot of reps and volume building technical proficiency and muscle in the lagging areas.
I’d stay away from high RPE work unless you can maintain form on em e.g. AMRAPs. Lots of other ways to make gains some of them arguably better.
Maybe you can do a bit of both approaches. Still go hard and heavy but maybe not do a bunch of sets where things go to shit and do back off work as described above that are in the perfect range to practice and accumulate work.
Over time ideally your threshold for break down will keep increasing if ur doing things right.
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Within the realm of 5/3/1, you could ditch PR sets for squats and do 5’s Pro FSL or BBS depending on how froggy you wanna get with volume. I know that Pervertor helped my form more than any other program and it was 5’s pro with BBS, BBB, and SSL as supplemental work. Could be worth a look for you. I don’t think that any particular assistance movement is gonna help you, you’ll just need to hammer submax volume with good form like @guineapig said above. The 5’s pro will keep decently heavy weight on your back too.
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In the same workout? What the actual fuck?
Hell no! I’m a bit left-handed in the head but not that nuckin’ futs. haha BBS is week 1, BBB week 2, SSL week 3.
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