Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Squats

Just plain 5x5 back squats
5 x 20kg
5 x 30kg
3 x 5 x 35kg

And as pathetic as that weight is I'm really happy with that.
My hips felt solid, my knees didn't cave that I could notice, my chest stayed up and my back was tight until or very close to my nearly non-existent hamstrings touched my equally non-existent calves. Most of the time coming up my butt and hamstrings were engaged.

So that's much better than I was doing.
I'll see how my knees feel Friday to see if it really was as good as I hoped.

Aside from the improved thoracic position the other change was to send my hips back at the start, but then not try and keep driving them back all the way to the bottom. With my proportions that leads to what amounts to a bent legged good morning, really bothers my hips a lot and is completely impossible to keep my back from rounding. This way I sort of sit into it on my hamstrings. I'll get video in the weekend when I can train when it's light and see if it looks disastrous. I hope not because it felt pretty good.

Then some turkish get-ups with a 10kg dumbbell, because it was there and I'd never done them and I wanted a finisher that had me twisting and stretching a bit if that makes sense.

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