Week 3 Squats - 1/4/2015

My back was feeling OK and I was ready to squat finally, it had been a couple of weeks.  I started warming up and felt like crap...  Everything was tight and hurting.  Put on my briefs around 400ish and still felt like awful.  Threw my suit on and took 585, felt heavy and out of groove.  I was doing doubles and the plan was to go to 85%, I have felt over the last couple of meet prep that my squat has peaked around two weeks early.  So, I have been holding off on going at it 100% until week 4.  This was my last week to stay "light". My next set was 655 and the double felt perfect - light on my back and very fast and effortless.  That was a change.  I went to 705 (85%) and it was the same.  Very smooth and fast.  I had been thinking that if things went well I would throw a heavy band on for a single just for fun.  I put the blue EliteFTS band on which is supposed to be around 200lbs at 60" and left the bar at 700 lbs.  The unrack wasn't bad considering if the math is correct this is the most I've had on my back, I've done a 900 lbs reverse band squat but not like this.  It felt pretty good and I got pretty close to depth and turned it around OK.  It stalled for a second and then came on up to lockout, I was happy with the squat.

I did some light leg presses next for 3x20.  We also just got a glute/ham raise and reverse hyper in the gym, thanks Corey.  I tried to do some ghr but my hams were cramping way to bad...  I suck at them.  I did some reverse hypers for 3x10 and finished with some weighted decline abs.  Very good and productive day.