Rest until your pulse is back to normal then do the next set.

If it takes you 15min you are probably in horrible shape.



I think pretty much every competition I've seen has like 10min tops between lifts, and that includes everything from a clubcompetition to the world championship.
If it takes 20-30min the meet is bad organized imo.

Don't get me wrong I think Mark Rippetoe bring some nice ideas to the table but he's also known to say crazy things.

I'll be doing my 5th meet in 29 days and from my decent experience and from all the information I've gathered I can tell you that there is more to it if you want to get stronger than wait XX minutes. Yes you need conditioning as a powerlifter because it increase your work capacity and your gains are mostly based on volume rather than high intensity. If you have to wait over 10 minutes to squat 240 for a few set I'm sorry but you have bad conditioning. What are you gonna do when you need 6-10 top set to get gains? squat for 3 hours?

Here's some example
-RTS based program time their squat and usually finish their set in less than 30-45 min warmup included
-Dan green is a hiking beast
-Jim wendlers recommend 1 min rest for his 5x5/7x5/8x3 set on his lastest program and swear by the prowler
-Ben Rice and Mike Tuscherer play a lot with rest periods for their sets an do 1-2 General Physical Preparation days per week especially off season (GPP)
...

For meet you don't have 10 minutes between sets to warm up. Don't you want to prepare yourself to compete correctly? I've not put more than 3 min rest on my timer in well over a year.

This post was edited by Aube on May 8 2015 05:15am

I don't recall seeing OP ever state he is training to be a powerlifter ffs.

His squat depth looks better than 95+% of people you see at the gym.

GJ OP

This post was edited by Boilermakers on May 8 2015 10:55am

everything looks pretty good to me. don't worry about your depth, its fine. nice progress.

What can you do to work conditioning, so you recover faster between sets? Hiking around be one?

Yeah recover faster so you can get more sets in a workout and train more often.

Sprints
Prowler push
HIIT
Hills
Hiking
...

Basically just anything that works your endurance. I think I'll probably do burpees and hiking.

Endurance with weights/resistance/intensity -> like squatting with less than 10 min rest lol

This post was edited by Aube on May 8 2015 02:37pm