I also hate pushups, but slightly less so once I researched form. I mean, it's a pushup, right? Figured I knew proper form. But tweaking a couple of things made a big difference for me. Here's a website (because I couldn't get it to enter as link?!?!--interwebs fail)

http://www.myweightlifting.com/push-up-technique.html

to an article that doesn't go especially in depth, but does have a short vid of a guy doing a perfect pushup at the end.

The change that helped me most is thinking of them as bodyweight bench presses. So, flexing shoulder blades toward the spine and bringing arms toward the body at 45 degrees, instead of leaving them straight out (too much shoulder emphasis). Drawing my gut inward seems to help a bit too. Lastly, I recently learned a cheat trying to keep pace at CrossFit Putting your feet together taxes your core harder, so the further your feet are spaced, the less your core is worked and the easier they are. I tend to space them about 4" to help out, but not look totally foolish doing spread-eagle pushups

I am really bad at doing pushups. Not form wise which I am awful at but actually doing them.

Vacation pr!

Went to a gym owned by my home gym's company. My brother came with me to try out SS.

I started with bench because I wanted to try it first before I did squats. I failed on my first set at 155, I just don't know anymore.

Anyway we went to where the squat racks were. Except there was a smith machine and a maxrack. We tried to fit a barbell in the rack slots and they were too short. Annoying but oh well.

Did deadlifts with chalk for the first time. Helped a ton with my work set of 305. Was a struggle but I got it up.

Bench fail at 155
Deadlift 1x5x305 (pr!!!!!!!)

Congrats!

Chalk is so helpful... hope you're having a good vacation.

Okay guys, wondering about resetting Ohp and bench? I'm supposed to press tonight but I've failed three times so should I take it down or what? Also haven't squatted in over a week, should I just repeat the weight?

Yep, reset is in order, especially after a break as well. Maybe make the last set an AMRAP set a la greyskull LP until you get back close to your previous PRs.

Yeah, I agree with Aidan on the reset for the upper body stuff. Squats I would just play by ear and see how your warmup sets feel, but it was only a week and you should be fine. I just skipped a Monday workout, so I had 4 days off instead of 2 and still went up 5 pounds -- I actually felt more rested and it was easier. You may surprise yourself.

Reset is twenty percent right? So 115 would be 90? Will do amrap on last set only right?

Will see how warmups feel for squats.

10% drop. I would also consider micro-loading the press if possible once you return to previous PR territory.

AMRAP is only on the last set, yes.

Micro load early imo.

+1

1.25 lb plates are really, really worth purchasing.

I'll order the washers when I get home unless you guys have a better idea.

I got a pair of 1 1/4 plates from Weightlifters Warehouse (~$8 shipped iirc), but there may be better cheaper options out there

Cheaper than $8. That'll do just fine.

I got a pair of 1.25 lb olympic plates off of amazon (through weightlifter's warehouse) for 16 bucks (and half of that was shipping) -- it doesn't look like they sell on amazon anymore though. What Aidan posted looks fine, I'd prefer an actual weight over some washers but I'm a little OCD about stuff like that.