View Workout (Aaron Lin)
UUUUP
August 15, 2013 (Afternoon)
Exercise Type: Weights
Comments:
late one. wanted good mental focus for this so i doubled up on Craze.
Squats warmups were not great and actually kind of scared me a little. but by the time i got to the working sets i decided to go for sets of 3. did 5x3 with 230lbs. so i think they were ok, maybe mediocre. set 3 went really well for whatever reason. i consciously tried to keep the upper back tight, lower back tight, maintain a neutral spine and not round but on some reps it was just tough. but i good morninged less this time. i think my stance could get even more narrow, ill work on that. also at home i figured otu that if i exert my abs forcefully while coming out of the hole on the squat i can actually immediately build up some raelly high intra-abdominal pressure and provide a solid base to stay upright.
3x9 with 165lbs on the RDLs. these were stressful on my left lat. i could feel a slight strain, gotta be careful with that. its probably cuz theres just so much time under tension on this one. i could try actual good mornings.
2x8 with 90lbs then 1x12 with 70 and a dropset to 30 on ham curls. i actually got a really good ham burn on this one. hammies were feeling sore.
seated and straight leg calves. same as usual. except the leg press machine really put a spot pressure on my lower back for whatever reason
wanted to fuck around a bit so i put 135 on the squat and played around with the low bar squat. now i see why you can do more weight. youre just more mechanically advantaged cuz the range of motion is less, and you have more leverage, and it's even MORE posterior chain dominant. but for now it really hurts my rear delts but thats something ill get used to liek how regular squats used to hurt my traps and i used the pussy pad.