In case anyone's wondering, I erased what I had a few posts back about doing 5 x 5 work squatting to add some more size to my legs. Fucking stupid once I was in the gym yesterday thinking about it! Real fucking stupid.
Instead, it only makes more sense for me to add in my leg presses (2 x 15 heavy) on ME days, and something else for DE SQUAT days. Makes no sense to start monkey fucking my program adding in 5 x 5 O squats sacrificing strength for hypertrophy.... Especially while I continue climbing up in weight in every exercise.
I think I was pissed about the front squatting when I came up with that. I'm replacing front squats with another Box Squat (1" below parallel, same as DE days). If I feel a lot of mental drain from always going north of 405 lbs, then I'll do a week of front squats since it's a lot lighter.
As for the 5 x 5, I plan on doing that ONLY during a deload instead of DE Squats, which are hell on my joints. So my next deload, whenever that is, will be predominantly repetition method, still keeping it relatively heavy. By that I mean doing my ME squat with something like wide parallel squats 5 x 5 pyramiding up to 365 lbs, and DE squat with something like Olympic squats 5 x 5 (same weight) with 315 lbs. So still sorta heavy, yet light enough to feel mentally awesome. Upper body will probably be the same as last time... Still doing ME exercises for a 1 RM, no drops, slashed volume.
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