The Workout:

Pause Squat with Safety Squat Bar

315 x 1

Step Ups

8,8

Leg Press on Pin Loaded Machine – Some

DB Romanian Deadlifts

30 x 6

40 x 7

45 x 7

Hip Thrusts

15, 15, 15

Banded Hip Abductions

25, 30

Laying Leg curls – Some

Seated Calf Raises

90 x 20

Need to work more on the pause part of pause squatting.

Thoughts:

Today’s workout was nothing special. I need to get better at pausing at the bottom of pause squats. I think doing them more often will help with that, plus knowing where I’m at with my strength. I had no idea what numbers to pick for this workout, but now I have a baseline, so onwards and upwards from here. I was pleased with hitting the 315 for the pause, it gives me a good place to work from.

I am tossing in more glute type training to the workouts. The new exercises are fun to play with. Loading on hip thrusts really pisses off the hernia repair sites, so I will have to consider a loading protocol for those. I might just keep them as a movement kind of thing or do them single legged. This is a case where not everything is a powerlift.