I’m currently in meet prep for the 2016 APF Equipped Nationals, in Orlando, Florida on May 28th, 2016. I will be competing at 132 pounds, raw with knee wraps. The big picture is to prep for this meet, and obtain a top three placing to qualify for WPC Worlds in November.
For programming and coaching inquires, please email SmitleyPerformanceSystems@gmail.com or visit brandonsmitley.comTuesday's training session was just another rough one. Considering I just went through a heavy squat and bench press session in the warm up room at the meet 48 hours prior, this session really got me. I probably should have tried to move this day back, but I'm someone that hates to disrupt my training schedule. I'm running with the cambered bar on speed squats to give my shoulders a bit of a break, before the final leg of prep. My squatting in general is feeling much better since switching shoes, but it's still a bit of a feeler during warm ups and trying to get things right.
Deadlifts started out feeling good, but as I went they just seemed to get harder and hard. While I did PR on my main supplemental movement, it was just frustrating that I began to feel my pelvis begin to shift and rotate, so I shut it down rather than trying to blast through it. It looks like I'll have an appointment with my chiro and hopefully some ART soon to get things ironed out the way they need to be.
Again, a tough training day, especially after the weekend, but hopefully things will continue on as they are, and keep progressing. I'm thinking I might actually take a minor deload in the next week or two to make sure I'm good to make a final push.
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Items Used in this Training Session Cambered Bar Short Light Bands EZ Loaders Chains SS Yoke Bar Mini Band
Warm Up Reverse Hyper - 3x15 Standing Cable Crunch - 3x15
A1) Cambered Bar Speed Squats vs Short Light Bands 65x10 65x5 - add bands 115x3 155x2 175x2 190x12x2
B1) Pause Squats 155x5 205x5 235x5 270x5 305x15 - PR
C1) Sumo Deadlifts 135x5 245x3 295x2 335x1 385x1 420x3 445x2x2
D1) Sumo Deadlifts vs 5 Chains 335x3 385x3 425x3 455x2 - PR (decided to not pull the third rep based on how my pelvis began to shift...off to the chiro and ART guy I go)
E1) SSB Good Mornings vs 4 Chains Per Side 65x8 65x8 - add chains 115x3x8
F1) Band Assisted Inverse Curls 4x15
G1) Reverse Hyper 5x20
H1) Standing Cable Crunches 4x15
