What is good in life? Setting a PR in your least favorite movement isn’t one of them, but I’ll take it this morning. 🙂

“Week 3”

• 5/3/1 – Squat (working max: 290#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x115
  • 1x5x145
  • 1x3x175
  • 1x5x220 (work)
  • 1x3x250
  • 1x3x280 (PR)
• Asst. #1 – Squat
  • 5 x 10 x 135

I still don’t like squat. If I listed the 4 main movements in my order of preference, squat is still at #4. But I don’t hate it as much as I used to. If you hate something, keep doing it until you don’t hate it because that’s the only way you’ll get better at it. And so, I keep squatting.

Setting a PR is great. As I got ready for that last set, I told myself how it wasn’t all that long ago I struggled to deal with 230, and now that’s warm-up weight. In fact, I’m doing a lot more than that for warm-up. So yeah, rep 3 was ugly, and I figured there was then little reason to do a 4th rep. But all good. I’m happy.

I will say… an interesting bit on the weight loss avenue. I had lost a few, but over the weekend gained a wee bit back. I’m not sure why. I did eat a bunch more fruit over the weekend. My guess? Either it was all the love of eating lots of Korean food and I may have gone slightly over my numbers, or that I knew being fueled up for my squat 5/3/1 day was vital and I just didn’t want to be down for it. My glycogen was likely just being depleted instead of true fat loss. But who knows. I’ve been saying that until I drop a solid 10# at least, it’s not really weight loss. Still, I shall keep up the work. And hey, the PR is most acceptable given my track record and the reduced food intake. So I’m happy.

Good way to start the week.