Sunday was a squat day at Apollon, and I was looking forward to taking my first free squat in gear in a long time.
My back isn't in shape yet for full gear, so I wore my Jack suit bottoms with no brief. I actually wore this suit wth no brief at my last meet and hit a 5lb pr, so even by itself it's plenty of support.
Started with the empty bar, and went up like so:
150 x 5
260 x 1
310 x 1
350 x 1
Put suit bottoms on
400 x 1
440 x 1
490 x 1
530 x 1
580 x 1
620 x 1
The 620 got down to parallel and came up solid. If felt a little heavy, but that's just because I haven't had heavy weights on my back in a long time. Considering everything, 620 is pretty good for straps down without wraps. Strength wise, I could probably handle about 700 in full gear right now, but I need to let my back heal more before I try anything that heavy.
After squatting, I did:
4 sets of 12 of reverse hypers
4 sets of 10 glute ham raises
4 sets of 12 pulldown abs
and 4 planks at 45 sec each.
Getting better, slowly but consistently.
