{"id":2839,"date":"2014-07-18T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T12:30:33","slug":"stronglifts-5x5-250-lb-squats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2014\/07\/18\/stronglifts-5x5-250-lb-squats\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronglifts 5&#215;5: 250 lb squats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hit another weightlifting milestone today: I squatted 250 lbs. Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFdl9HzWDUw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I did this set 5 times. <\/p>\n<p>That was the only good thing about today\u2019s workout. I failed on both my 120 lb overhead press and the 270 lb deadlift. I managed to do only 3 reps of the overhead, and I couldn&#8217;t even budge the deadlift weight. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see what next Wednesday holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hit another weightlifting milestone today: I squatted 250 lbs. Here&#8217;s the video: I did this set 5 times. That was the only good thing about today\u2019s workout. I failed on both my 120 lb overhead press and the 270 lb deadlift. I managed to do only 3 reps of the overhead, and I couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-workout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-JN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2817,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2014\/07\/04\/we-finished-12-weeks-of-stronglifts-5x5\/","url_meta":{"origin":2839,"position":0},"title":"We finished 12 weeks of Stronglifts 5&#215;5","author":"Kim Siever","date":"4 July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we finished the first part of the Stronglifts 5\u00d75 weightlifting programme. 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