Cube Week 6 Squat Reps 7th June 2013

Foam roll: lower back, hamstrings, glutes
Hip mob: 3 mins each side, Warm up: Band GM/Lunges/Band abductors and adductors, 2 rounds, 15 reps, no rest

Squats
Bar * 5
60kg * 5
100 * 5
120 * 4
135 * 3
152.5 * 6, 6
160 * 1 (paused 1 sec), 0 (strained the right hip flexor on the ascent)

Front squats (paused)
60 * 5 (3 sec)
100 * 3 (3 sec)
120 * 1 (1 sec)

By this point, the pain in the right hip flexor was rather bad, so decided to call it a day there on squats. Super crap session, and just did some accessories after.

Straight bar wide stance GM
60 * 8 for 3 sets

Single leg leg press
100 * 15 for 3 sets

GHR
15kg plate * 5
BW * 10 for 4 sets

GHR abs
3 sets of 20 (unweighted)

Banded leg curls (med band)
2 sets of 50

Bad sesh. Hopefully the carb up tonight will help my recovery. Incidentally, the 6 days before this I went super low carb because I was doing the prep phase for Carb backloading, so I figure that's probably why i'm not recovering well. Today's the first day of the backloading, so hopefully it will help. Probably not the wisest decision to change a diet so close to comp, but since I started it, might as well finish it up. Lower back pain was roughly 7/10 throughout (9/10 during the squats), and the hip strain was a 10/10 when it happened. After much pressing, it reduced to a 7/10.