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Chalk It Up
Posted By Scott Bird
Filed In : Strength Training Equipment | workouts
Chalk ball

Chalk ball.

Finally got a chance to catch up on sleep (7.5 hours, which is great compared with the 4-5 I usually get) and it certainly made a difference this morning. Looking over Rob’s recent squat/rack pull workout inspired me to do the same – including the PRs.


The squats were once again of the bottom-up variety, with a few sets of regular free squats beforehand to warm up a bit. Worked up to a new 10RM for these before realising I was dangerously close to vomit territory.
For the rack pulls I decided to try out John’s suggestion and use chalk – hoping that my back would call Time before my grip did. This seemed to make a bit of a difference (at least the white handprints on everything looked cool), and I took it 20kg up from last time before calling it a day. As tempting as it was to max out, I’ll try to stick to 10RMs during this phase.


Squat
2×20@20/44
2×20@40/88
Bottom squat
2×10@60/132
2×10@80/176
10@90/198
Rack pull (above knee, 6 holes, conventional)
2×20@60/132
2×20@100/225
2×10@140/308
10@160/352

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