Thanks man, if I could just take your overcompensation for depth we’d both be good lol. Honestly give pause squats a try. Get a video from the side find the depth and adjust to it. I know it’s prob tough as it is for me too. If it were easy everyone could do it
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Yep, pauses are my next variation after I strengthen the new ROM with pin squats.
Ain’t that the truth!!
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Jan 14 2017
Squats
135 x 3
185 x 3
225 x 3
255 x 2
285 x 5 x 4 sets
Bench
135 x 3
155 x 3
175 x 2
195 x 5 x 4 sets (first rep paused)
Superset - 3 sets
Ab wheel - 10/7/6
RDL (no touch/no lockout) - 225 x 10/235 x 8/245 x 8
Just record all videos from a front-ish high angle and no one can see your depth properly. Easy
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Good idea! Lol
Jan 18 2018
Deadlift (alternate sets - conventional / sumo)
135 x 3 (s)
185 x 3 (c)
225 x 3 (s)
275 x 3 (c)
315 x 3 (s)
350 x 2 (c)
350 x 2 (s)
350 x 5 (c)
350 x 5 (s)
OHP
bar x 5
65 x 5
80 x 5
95 x 5
120 x 5
120 x 5
120 x 5
Superset - chins w/ KB Swing (3 sets)
Chins x 6 (focus on lat squeeze)
32kg x 10
This deadlift session was pretty tough to be honest. All the time spend holding our boy has built up alot of fatigue in my lower back… no joke haha. Gonna try to switch up days to hit deadlifts heavier on weekends and have light/speed days during the week.
Jan 20 2017
Squat
135 x 5
165 x 5
185 x 3
225 x 1
275 x 1
315 x 1
365 x 1 (wrapped)
405 x /fail for two reps (wrapped)
Bench
135 x 2
155 x 2
185 x 2
225 x 3
200 x 6
Tried out wraps for the first time. They hurt like shit! Lol I just wanted to see what or if I could get more out of them. 365 felt like cake out of the hole. On the four plate lift I managed to get them wrapped even tighter and in the hole feels real weird like you almost have to push yourself down. I’m gonna start practicing with these a couple times a month to overload my sleeved squats. The video shows how ugly these reps were lol
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Jan 21 2017
Bench (all paused 2 sec)
135 x 3
155 x 3
165 x 3
185 x 3 x 3 sets
Superset (4 sets, bench 8 reps, chins 5 reps)
CGBP 135/145/155/160
Weighted chins BW+10/+15/+25
Dead stop rows
135 x 8
165 x 8
185 x 8
200 x 6
For some reason these got me out of breath
Bunch of laterals and barbell curls
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Those wrapped squats dont look that bad, just need some practice.
When you going to throw a suit on with rev bands 
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haha, I have been contemplating entering a powerlifting competition here in Gatlinburg at the end of the year and the rules there state raw you can use knee wraps up to 3 meter length. Just trying to feel em out, I may start trying to hit a 5 or 3 rep max in wraps once or twice a month. Thinking this is a way to excite the leg/squat training again.
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January 27 2018
Squats
135 x 5
185 x 5
225 x 5
255 x 5
285 x 7 (stopped when reps felt slow)
225 x 13
Close Grip Bench
Bar x 5
95 x 5
135 x 5
155 x 5
185 x 5 x 3 sets
Leg lifts - 3 sets
Bunch of lunges
Bunch of 30LB slam balls
Bunch of band pushdowns
January 28 2018
Warmed up with some foam rolling (it bands, adductors, static stretching)
Deadlifts
135 x 2
185 x 2
225 x 2
275 x 5
315 x 5
355 x 7 (stopped when i felt slow, also my adductors were destroyed from squats the previous day, wasnt helping my cause)
Band Deadlifts (EliteFTS short light)
225 x 2 x 6 sets
Standing Military
Bar x 5
65 x 5
95 x 5
125 x 5 x 3 sets
Rack Pulls
135 x 3
225 x 3
275 x 3
315 x 3
365 x 3
405 x 3
430 x 1
Vids of top sets from this past weekend
Deadlift
Squat
Feb 3 2018
Reorganized the garage gym today
Squats
135 x 5
155 x 5
185 x 3
205 x 10 x 5 sets
Bench
135 x 3
135 x 3
145 x 10 x 4 sets
145 x 8/2
Super burn my lower back quads and pecs and tris were on FIRE!
I’m in. We’re similar strength and both looking at competing. Got my first comp in April. Do it!
Also, that last set of squats of 285x7 looked WAY better. Perfect depth.
As far as wraps, they’re hard to get used to. I had the same problem when I started using em; they make it hard to hit depth. I have to practically dive bomb the descent to get depth, but doing that (for me) makes it even easier because it gets even more bounce out of the hole from the wraps
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Glad to have you and good luck on the upcoming comp. I need some friendly competition to give me a boost haha
Appreciate the compliment. Ive bein doing light paused squats and now I’m gonna start hittin more of hypertrophy/higher reps the next 4 weeks to try to grease that groove so to speak. The wraps are super uncomfortable but give a sort of confidence or so it seems. I’m gonna try to use them at least a couple times every month
Feb 4 2018
SUPERSET
Deadlift. W/. Military
4 x 10 @ 255 lb/ 95 lb
5th set hit 12 on Deads and 10 on military
Deadlift top set
Chins 3 sets
Band pushdown 3 sets
I puked after the final superset lol
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Reading about all these reps made me puke too 
Good work man. I like DL/OHP supersetted. Just goes well together for some reason.
It’s definitely madness lol. Since I’ve pretty much determined two days a week is all I have to lift the high frequency deadlifts and squats kinda go out the window. So I guess now all I can do to compensate for that is hitting tons of volume. One other thing that sucks is that the two days I have fall back to back to each other lol. Soooooo squats for volume followed by deadlifts for volume. Maybe I can hold up for 3-6 weeks and I’ll start ramping down to sets of 5 and 3. But it sure does build work capacity!
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Updated my title as well. Ive got 4 months to hit 500, solely because I need to hit 500 before i can reach for 600! lol