3/5/24 BBB: 5s Press, 50 squat

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---Jump sets---
Toe to Bar
5,4,3 2

Hip Thrust @ 315
10, 7, 6
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I lost reps on the hip thrust, BUT it was the result of having much better control of the weight. I also tried to bias my gluteus maximus more because I noticed I tend to let my medius take over a lot. I did jump sets with Toe-to-bar leg raises. The reps here are low but I'm extremely satisfied to have come so far with my ab progression. 

BBB squat @ 140
(10, 15, 15, 10)
I do my lower body BBB work as 50 anyhow rather than 5x10 because I feel that my legs gain more size and strength with very high effort. I expected to push these sets much further but my right knee wasn't feeling good and I was spending mental bandwidth slowing down my form. The stimulus was still fantastic. I felt my legs burning after the 3rd set. I couldn't help but compare this to sessions where I ran 5x15@185. While the weight was higher before, I did those sets as breathing sets with long pauses between reps. These days I do squat volume work with minimal rest between reps. I'm saving breathing reps for bulking time because they're so much more demanding.

---5s pro press Giant Set---

Press 
105x5, 120x5, 135x5

BSS
80x4, 95x 3
105x3, 120x1, 135x1

Wide neutral chin
(6,6,7)
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This was hard. I'm a lot weaker at pressing. If I don't adapt fast I may have to lower the TM. I decided that I would use my press weight for BSS's.... and wow.... it was painful. My glutes were pretty fatigued by this point so the BSS's took a lot of mental power to do bit they were fun. My chin-up reps were low. I think my body was tired because when I stopped a set it was like my body just refused to do another rep, but I didn't get close to muscular failure. 

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