After coming off my best meet performance of my career, I am now officially a beat up powerlifter. I'm having some minor low back issues that I'm working on mending up, and then I'll begin to find a competitive option. My goals for 2017 are to compete in a bodybuilding show and also get back to the platform 100% healthy.

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Monday's training had all the volume. Surprisingly enough I was feeling really good after a day in the bench shirt, so I opted to train solely by feel. I did know that I wanted to push my bicep volume up a tad since my elbows were already feeling the wear and pressure from the shirt, and I've got to do my best to keep my elbows happy since it looks like I'll be in and out of this thing for a while. Lots of supersets and just a fun day of training.


Items Used in this Training Session

Warm Up Cats & Camels - 10 Quadraped T-Spine Ext - 10 each Band Dislocations - 10 Alternating Band Dislocations - 10 each Band Pressdowns - 15 Band Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns - 15 Band Face Pulls - 15 Single Arm Band Fly - 15 each Band Rows - 15 Band Curls - 15

A1) T-Bar Rows 3x12 2x10

B1) Supinated Row Machine 5x12

C1) Dante Rows 4x15

D1) Pull Ups (varying grips) 3 sets, max reps (one set at each grip - neutral, supinated, prone)

E1) Cable Shrugs 3x20 E2) DB Shrugs 3x10 *The key on this superset is to really squeeze at the top, and hold the stretched position for about a second*

F1) Barbell Curls 4x6-10 F2) Machine Preacher Curls 4x6-10

G1) Lying Cable Curls (Supine) 3x12

H1) Hammer Curls Run the rack from 30's down to 10's


Brandon Smitley
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