With the last holiday of summer underway, the temperature now is warmer than it was for July 4th…outside the gym and worse in it. Regardless, it was a good day to squat. I wasn’t sure how my recovering quads would respond, but they were fine since the squat affects mostly the posterior chain anyway.
My warm-up consisted of two rounds of the Crossfit warm-up and some empty and light bar squats. Once that was finished, I did,

195×5x5 and followed that with pause squats of 145×5x5 with the pause being 3 seconds in the hole.
I cooled down, so to speak, by doing some stretches and kettlebell halos and Turkish get-ups with Val’s 8 kg kettlebell.

Tomorrow, I am going to mix in some rings, weighted vest, kettlebells and some bodyweight exercises before going heavy on Sunday.

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