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 #EverydayShouldBeLegDay Always happy when I'm squatting the bar. Last week was the first time handling heavy(ish) weights on squat, since I last peaked in strength roughly 10 months ago. It's always a shock at first, as even if the body has the strength, the shock of Weight on the structural parts of the body is still hard to overcome. As a result last week I only managed 1 rep on 200kg 400lb. However it doesn't take long for the body to be re-accustomed with its old iron friend. Today was the first major step in the right direction, with me managing to rep out 200kg for 6reps. This is good early heavy phase prep work - that will lay a good foundation for heavier work in 8-10weeks time. My hope was to do at most 3reps. So doubling that target was very encouraging, however it does mean next time I deffo need to put the weight up more, as ideally I should be doing sets of 3-4reps at the moment, with the idea of cutting the reps down to doubles and singles within a few weeks...

  And finally today was Leg day! My fave, and I opened up with abs and core work and then I did some leg extensions and leg curl to pre-exhaust my legs. When my legs started to get that wibbly wobbly feeling, I went onto squat. I have been doing sets of around 12reps for the last 6months, but as mentioned above, im now in my strength/heavy phase of training. So although i am still training for size and development, i am currently doing lower but heavier reps to prep for my pb attemlts in a couple of month. After that ill be back to higher volume work again. For today i started with First warming up on 150kg, then 180kg and finished my 1 rep sets with 200kg. My intention was to do 3 power reps on 200kg but it didn't feel comfortable, so I kept it as a single and moved on to the next part, of 3 HIT reps on 170kg. I was pleased with this set as I wasn't sure if I could do 3 reps under such control, but I felt like I had at least one more left in the tank. Obvs normally I train to ...