Well, I'm still alive lol. Already into my second week of hypertrophy training. No complaints aside from the high rep sets of legs. First time I've EVER done 15 rep sets before for squats. Week one was an abortion (aka I wanted to die), but I made it through. This week I hit ALL my reps for everything, which was cool. Feeling really sick after the squats, but I'll manage. Nothing can be done about it, so I'll suck it up. I usually use the glute-ham raises as my recovery period lol. I'm really happy with how my squats have skyrocketed since starting up 1.5 years ago with the 5x5 followed by conjugate training. If noone knows what I'm talking about, refer to the "
All too familiar story" thread I made that showed my progressions according to past journals. Shit, back when I was doing DC training, my 20 rep set was with 235 lbs!.. Now I'm doing multiple sets of 15 with 300 lbs, and yes, at least 2-3" below parallel.
My goal for this mesocycle is 315 lbs, which I'm not too confident will happen in the two weeks I've got left lol. Since I'm doing a few sets worth, I'm trying to keep the weight about 50 or so pounds below an all out set of 15.
In another two or so weeks, I'll be finding my 5 RM's which means a little dual factor is in the cards so WATCH OUT for BIG numbers!!