Day 2 of working from home. Doing this for my new job and then going to the office for the old one at 4:30. I can train while at home working. 

Squats
Up to 485 x 5

Drop-set down to 405 x 5
315 x 8
225 x 8
135 x 10
45 x 10

Knees hurt a little but I got through everything. 

Glad my squat hasn't seen any declines, unlike my pressing. I don't need to be straight bar squatting right now with no date for my powerlifting meet in sight, but I'd like to keep ready and since I'm on a roll with getting comfortable past 500 I don't want to let-up and switch to the SSB just yet.

Now that I'm working from home I'm going to reduce my edible intake since I don't need to cram in coffee-fueled lifting and prepping for the day in a 2-3 hour window at night anymore. No pressing need to take something that will knock my ass out through the caffeine and nighttime training stimulation. So I'll be cutting that out from every night to just once or twice a week as a treat.

Messed around with my new log yesterday, which came on my birthday. Wasn't able to train on my birthday because I worked 11 hours and then went out with George for Korean BBQ, which was great.

I got up to pressing 185 very easily but when I tried 200 I couldn't even get a rep. I don't just say this to cover my ass though: I don't think I was trying very hard. It got off my chest and then came back down and I stumbled, then just decided to drop it because I'd been playing around with 185 a lot and was already feeling it in my arms. Next time I'll have a more structured approach and rep out 200 and beyond, which I'm going to need to get a handle on for my meet.

Also did some banded dumbbell pressing which I stole from Paul Carter.