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Originally Posted by Poseidon9
It started sucking for me at about my 70th rep. Then the form got sloppy and I had to repeat some ugly reps.
I'm about your size too, but my muscular conditioning is definitely my weak point.
Challenges like this give me incentive to improve it.
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Ditto-ish - I took a few breaths at the 60 mark and shook my arms out. After that there was only numbness, void, shrieking nothingness... then sweet victory. I focused on minimising stress on shoulder/arm muscles by keeping them as loose as possible, and using a lot of pop in the hips. Power up into the lockout and you're done - failing only drains more strength. I am having trouble minimising the effort of the drop however...
BTW it seems like the 20 rep squats I'm on have done some good for my anaerobic threshold and posterior chain endurance, but the main benefit I think is the mental aspect - i.e. the ability to compartmentalise the reps ("just this ten... just this ten...") and to simply stop thinking.