Sat, 8 Aug 15

Nick was in town this weekend to visit and train and he finally crossed squatting in a monolift off his bucket list when we went to Mike's garage.  We started out in my garage for 18" deads in my new rack.  Fun fact - the bottom pin setting is EXACTLY 18" from the floor.  After that we headed to Mike's to squat, then finished up at the Unit MkIII.  It was a lot of moving around, but we got to train with so much radical equipment and so many gnarly people.

18" DL

10x45

6x135

6x245

4x335

3x445

3x535

3x625

Squat

2x10x45

6x135

6x225

3x315 - Added Jack briefs

2x405 - Added belt

1x495

1x545 - Added Jack suit.  This felt the best that squatting in gear has felt since I started doing it again.  I was able to get down easier and smoother without fighting for position and coming up felt like cake.  This was where I stopped today though because we had a lifter go down with a pretty serious quad tear and after that no one wanted to squat anymore.

Circus DB

6ea x 75

2x3ea x 125

3ea x 145

1ea x 165

2x160 - Right side only.  I was having a lot of problems with the DB slipping off my shoulder today due to sweating like a pig at a luau.  I need to start doing some higher rep work with light weight to get my technique dialed in on this.

Yoke

100' x 250

100' x 450

100' x 630 - This felt pretty good and speedy, but afterward my left ankle was kind of wonky so I didn't go up anymore.  I did bring it back at a very slow pace when everyone was finished though since we ended up with the yoke 100' away from the door to the Unit.

100' x 540