Back Squat and Clean PR's

Back Squat 
1 x 255, 275, 305, 315, 325, 335(f) 

 Clean 
Technique practice, then 1 x 185, 225, 245, 255

 Skill Practice: 
Handstand Holds, Parallette HSPU, L-sit, and Gymnastics Kip 

 PR on both back squat (25# pr) and clean (5# pr) today. For me, my weakness is absolute(raw) strength, and I think increasing my squat helped increase my clean. The reason being the most I had ever squat clean before was 235. Still need to increase my raw strength, then I will be able to convert that into explosive strength. 

 Also congrats to my brother Ben on increasing his back squat from 185 to 205. 

 DM

 
 

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