2016-11-21: Squat, OHP, Deadlift. Hard.

Took yesterday off.  My back muscles feel funky after the botched attempt at 70kg Power Clean on Saturday.  Spine's fine, but the muscles are sore.  Better today than yesterday, so went for some heavy lifting.  Kept well away from Power Cleans today.

Quite proud of my new Deadlift 5x PR.  Feels good.  Felt easy.

Todays lifts

Barbell Squat

5x20kg

5x40kg

3x60kg

3x80kg

3x100kg

1x120kg

3x5x145kg PR

I'm wondering whether I should stop doing 5x5s and start doing 3x5s for Squats.  5x5 are getting demotivationally exhausting.  After the 3rd set I didn't have any more in the tank and just skipped the last 2 sets.  

Overhead Press

5x20kg

3x40kg

5x5x65kg

The 5x5 felt excessively hard.  But they all went up.  Been a while since I've OHP'ed 65kg, given that I've been Smolov'ing for bench press.  Wonder if I should start focusing on increasing my OHPs instead of bench for a while.

Deadlift

5x40kg

5x60kg

5x80kg

3x100kg

1x120kg

1x140kg

1x160kg

5x172.5kg PR

FINALLY managed to complete 5x172.5kg.  That one required many, many attempts to get.  Friday: 175kg !

Wife's lifts

This is her 3rd session in the gym since .. forever.  

Squat

5x20kg

5x5x25kg

2x5x20kg

Overhead Press

5x5x20kg

Deadlift

5x40kg

5x45kg