I’ll keep this one short. Last night, heavy metal class, we did the following:

• Max Back Squat 5×1
• Thruster Breathing Ladder (45#)

My back squat lifts came out like this:

• 135#
• 225#
• 315# (Not technically a fail. I came forward and had some bad form, but still got it.)
• 335# (PR)
• 350# (F)

The breathing ladder wasn’t so bad. Thankfully, I was able to remember my Yang Chi breathing from KF which REALLY helped. If you are unfamiliar, a breathing ladder is where you do pyramiding reps and get the number of breaths in reps that you just did.

Example:

• 1 rep, 1 breath
• 2 reps, 2 breaths
• …
• 10 reps, 10 breaths
• —
• 2 reps, 2 breaths
• 1 rep, 1 breath

This was not timed.