Something your missing that may help you in the future. I have preached the need to be somewhat flexible and patient. One thing that would have helped you doing box squats for so long was to allow yourself to switch them out every so often for regular squats. Keeping youself familiar with it and so on and preventing that culture shock of swithching suddenly. Also you can alway hit a set of light squats as a backoff as long as it is really a backoff and not ball's out. Higher reps.
Something I've mentioned and witch I really believe to be the case is that practising and also learning a movement for the first time is really better done with higher reps. This cements the movement patterns quicker and better and gets you greased up. At any time when you get away from the main movements you can still use this concept to keep in practice. The body doesn't just deal in intensity and volume. It deals in patterns of recuritment which I shorthand as "movement patterns" as a catch all of all the different things going on. Even if you don't feel a set is "productive" in the traditional sense of progressive overload it is still productive in other ways.
In fact I count this as one of the drawbacks of the 3x5 Rippetoe thing for absolute beginners. It's a good set range in terms of using moderate volume but not a good range in terms of learning the lifts. Plus the fact that absolute beginners will react the same to whatever you give them.
You don't have to necessarily do back off sets every time...and sometimes you can just completely replace the box squats for some appropriately heavy squats. Keep in mind that you can rely on any one method to keep you squats healthy. And also keep in mind that some "catchup" is just part of the game if you train this way but for the most part you should be able to maintain squat form and confidence while you're going along.
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