Coming to the gym tonight, I decided to do back squats and as I went to the remaining empty squat rack, I found myself next to Scott Prengle’s Strongman crew who were also doing max singles of the back squat. These guys were working up to 500 lb squats and after they hit that, dropped the weight and did some grueling 5 rep 3 second pause squats. I even saw the stars and little birdies floating around their heads!

My numbers, while nowhere near the crew’s were good for me. I warmed up with 45×10/95×10/135×5/185×10. After that, singles. 225/255 (80% 1RM)/255/265/275/275/275/275 and then 225×5.

That was a good warm-up for hang squat cleans to a push press, 5×5’s.65/85/95/105/110. Now I got a good sweat going and that was it for this episode. Thank you and good night!

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