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SS – Day21

Weight 189.8

Squats
45 x 5 x 2
90 x 5
135 x 3
180 x 2
230 x 5/5/4
Missed one rep (due to fatigue), bar speed slow, proceed with micro-load

Bench
45 x 5 x 2
70 x 5
100 x 3
130 x 2
145 x 3/4/4
4 missed reps = missed third attempt, strike 3, time for a reset

Pullups: 1.5/1/1

SS – Day20

Weight: 190.2

Squats:  2x5x45 + 1x5x90 + 1x3x135 + 1x2x180 + 3x5x225 (with belt)

Press: 2x5x45 + 1x5x55 + 1x3x70 + 1x2x85 + 2/2/1/1/1 x 100

Deadlift: 2x5x100 + 1x3x150 + 1x2x215 + 1x5x225

Back got beat up today. Managed to finish all 3 sets of the 225 on the squat finally. Noticing that I'm using a lot of quads on these.

Press stalled pretty badly.

Deadlifts were pretty hard.

SS – Day19

Weight: 189.2

Squats:  2x5x45 + 1x5x90 + 1x3x135 + 1x2x180 + 4/4/4 x 225 (raw, 2nd stall)

Bench: 2x5x45 + 1x5x70 + 1x3x100 + 1x2x130 + 4/4/5 x 145 (2nd stall)

Chinups: 3/2/1.5

Good and bad parts of the session.

The bad. Couldn't meet my reps on the first set of the squat and bench.
For the squat, I went raw, no belt. Surprisingly, I felt pretty strong. I thought the bar would just flatten me. The bench was technique deficiency and lack of rest time. Proof of this is I was able to do 5 reps easily on the last set.

The good. I did squat raw. I've been belting up on the top set of the work set for the last couple of workouts now. I had some hesitation going into it without a belt, but my core held up much better than I anticipated.