Dang… 2 dozen cycles?

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 24, week 1

• Work Set – Squat (working max: 300#)
  • 45 x 5 x 2 sets (warmup)
  • 120 x 5
  • 150 x 5
  • 180 x 3
  • 195 x 5 (work)
  • 230 x 5
  • 260 x 5
• Assistance – Front Squat
  • 105 x 8
  • 115 x 6
  • 125 x 5
  • 135 x 5
  • 95 x 6
• Assistance – Crunches
  • BW x 6/6/10 x 3 sets
• Farmer’s Walk
  • 60 per hand
  • 3 50 yard trips
  • 10 breath rest between trips
• Foam Rolling

This is part 2 of the “6 week” cycle, doing 2 cycles back to back with no deload in between. While every other lift goes up in weight, squats remain at the same weight and I’m going for reps. I just didn’t get the reps last cycle, so I think it behooves me to stay here and ensure I at least hit prescribed reps this go around.

Did it today. I can live with this. Would have liked more, but I wasn’t going to really push it — don’t miss reps. The 5th rep started to get a little sloppy, so stop there.

I really want to work my quads more… they feel like the weak point in all of this. So on front squats, I opted to pyramid up. I’m not sure if I’ll normally do this, but I felt I wasn’t using as much weight as I could, so let’s try climbing up and seeing. I don’t want it to be another low-rep session of 5’s, 3’s, and 1’s… I do want/need some volume here, like 6-10 reps. So who knows… maybe I’ll keep pyramiding up for a while so I can get more reps at weights that make it hard to get those reps (e.g. first set should be a weight that is hard to get for 10 reps). And note, it’s all done after the regular squats AND with a lot less rest between sets (about 90 seconds or so). So I’m sure it’ll still be less weight than I could do if I was really focused on heavy front squats, but point is… I can go heavier as is evident by what I did above. So we’ll see… maybe 5 sets, first two are lighter weights with more reps, then 2 sets at something heavier for about 5-6 reps, then last set drops down in weight to AMRAP. *shrug*