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.

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Thursday's upper body training rounded out week 6. So far, things are still looking pretty good. This was a long day, and unfortunately I didn't get near enough sleep the night before, but I still pressed on. I had to train solo, so I felt that I left some reps behind on the wide grip bench pressing, but that's okay as I still hit a 10 rep PR with the movement. Lots of back work still, but kept things rather simple. I had to fly through this training session just so I could get everything in for the day that I needed to.

Definitely need to gear up and get some good quality rest over the weekend as the heaviest training days are slowly approaching, and fast. Time to round out about the final month of training.


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Items Used in this Training Session Mini Bands

Warm Up Band Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns - 1x15 Band Pressdowns - 1x15 Band Face Pulls - 1x15 Band Flys - 1x15 Band Rows - 1x15 Band Curls - 1x15 Push Ups - 1x15

A1) Speed Bench Press vs Doubled Mini Bands 45x10 45x5 - add bands 75x3 95x3 115x3 130x8x3

B1) Wide Grip Bench Press 135x5 185x5 205x5 235x3 260x10 - PR

C1) DB Bench Press 90's x 3 sets of failure

D1) DB Rows 3x10 per arm

E1) Cambered Bar Chest Supported Rows 4x10

F1) Lat Pulldowns 3x10

G1) Cable Rows 3x10

H1) Incline Rear Delt Raises 3x20 H2) Incline External Rotations 3x20

I1) Hanging Leg Raise Hold 3 min total time


Brandon Smitley
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