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Re: 3X5 Squats

by jjay2000 » Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:57 pm

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After my last post, I decided to take a week off and then when I came back I killed the squat at 270 5x5, then today I failed with 5-5-4-2-0. I'm starting to believe maybe 5x5 squats are hindering my recovery. Here's what I propose and tell me what you think. I still do 5x5 back squats on workout A and then on B I switch to 5x5 front squats. I've played around with front squats and can do 135lbs so this lower weight wouldn't have such an effect on my recovery, when it does get heavy I should be at 1.5 bw on the back squat anyhow.

Thanks in advance
Jason

5'10" · 206lbs · 34yo ·PRs: Squat 365 · Bench 230 · OHP 145 · Dead lift 405

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