Pics maybe if I can find some decent ones from that time
Rip that sounds great. Man do you have to go that deep in the matches? I'm guessing you will have to learn to squat with wraps if you are gonna use them, they take some time to get used to, probally not like one of those bench shirts though. I take it you train hams on a different day then quads.
You are already squatting more than even the girls I see who think they are good, they use similar weights maybe a little more but they don't even break parallel.
I trained legs tonight too. I did some leg presses and hurt my hip a little on my top set with 10 plates as soon as I felt it though about the 4th rep I stopped, which was smart it hurts some now, but should be good in a few days. man I don't know what happens when that happens but it feels a bit like my femur is popping a bit out of the socket, lots of pressure on the hips doing LP.
I have come to the conclusion I am tearing the f*ck out of myself training legs and need to back off a bit for good, i just cant keep it up like that at this age.
Keep up the great work Rip baby! I think you should try and do the whole event, just to get a full PL event under your belt. maybe not that event but one in the not too distant future.
You can always just email the pics to me.

Take it easy on those hips Luv baby... you have to be in it for the long haul if you want to be your best in October...so don't push it too hard now. It sounds like you are being smart about it, though...you know what you are doing. If you feel like something is popping, maybe you should have your chiro check out your hips?
I'm squatting ass to calves right now primarily to build up leg size and strength while I can (i.e., before I start dieting!) and to learn correct posture on the squats (keeping my back upright). I'm hoping I can get a little extra quad sweep out of this approach. Eventually, when I am used to going deep with the heavier weight and have good form, I'll widen my stance a little and work on a good (hopefully heavier) competition squat.
Squatting this deep is a totally new experience for me. I'm actually surprised that I can squat that kind of weight ass to calves. My hips are finally starting to get used to it and are not hurting me at all when I squat now, but I am having a little bit of knee trouble, which I need to be very careful about.
I'm not sure if I will end up wrapping for this meet at the end of June or not. We'll see how it goes. There is definitely a learning curve with the wrapping, and I think that wrapping comes into play more when you are using a squat suit, which I am not going to do for this meet. This meet is all about learning the basics of squatting and deadlifting and getting a decent RAW lift down, i.e. getting a baseline from which to build on in the future.
Oh, and yes, hams are hit pretty damn hard on deadlift day!
