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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Friday's training ended up being a REALLY quick one. I knew I had to leave town by about 1:30pm to head to get my guys to evening weigh ins (no one was cutting weight) from 5-6pm (central time thankfully), so I had about 75 min to cram my session in after getting down with my morning clients. It was a good session, but like I said, a bit rushed - but I could deal with it since I knew I was going to get more back work in on Monday anyways. No PR on close grip work, but I felt that it was there, I just didn't want to take the risk. Definitely going to gun for it next week though.


Items Used in this Training Session Sabertooth Bar EZ Loaders Chains MAG Grip Blast Straps

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) Speed Bench Press vs 2 Chains Per Side 55x10 55x5 - add chains 75x3 95x3 115x3 135x3 150x8x3

B1) Close Grip Bench Press vs 2 Chains Per Side 185x4 230x6

C1) Bench Press vs 2 Chains Per Side 145 x 20, 20, 17

D1) Wtd Wide Grip Pull Ups 3x6; then a drop set

E1) Standing MAG Grip Cable Rows 4x15

F1) Cable Shrugs 3x15 F2) Blast Strap Y's 3x15


Brandon Smitley
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