Squat, and nothing else. It helped me make up my mind.

“Week 4”

• Deload – Squat (working max: 260#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 2x5x105
  • 2x5x135
  • 2x5x160
• Asst. #1 – Squat
  • 5 x 10 x 135

And that’s all I did. Squat.

I’ve been giving some serious thought to my future direction, and the more I think about doing the “Boring But Big 3 Month Challenge” the more it appeals to me.

It’s simple.

It’s pretty much all big movements. I’m finding I hate things like Good Mornings, Leg Presses, Leg Curls, and other such stuff. Give me the big movements and I’m pretty happy.

Assistance work is there to help with weak points. Where are my weak points? Everywhere and nowhere. I can’t isolate out much that is specifically weak, e.g. trouble locking out on bench press. But I just need to get overall strong (and big). So let’s just revert back… gravitate back to where I started, but with a bit more oomph.

The more I look at BBB/3Mo, the more I like it. The more I think that’s just what I need. If I want to get better at the squat, I should squat.

I did wonder if it ran counter to my fat-loss issues, but I don’t think it will. I think I will still lean up some. When I look at the food intake that Wendler suggests, it’s pretty much what I’m doing now, just a lot tighter. Between the ZMA forcing me to not eat after supper, plus a Lenten effort to stick to eating only what I’m to eat (i.e. can’t shove anything in my mouth between meals, even if it’s good for me), that ought to work out alright for me. I might try to see about upping my “cardio” some by changing my walking route to add a little more time/distance to the mix.

And so today? It was an effort to see if I really wanted to do it or not. So all I did today was squat. Granted it wasn’t quite like the program would be, but just squatting the whole time showed me that 1. this is going to kick my ass, thus I must do it 2. I actually enjoyed this a lot more than all the other crap I’ve been doing, thus I must do it.

So there we go.

Onwards.