I’m currently in meet prep for the 2015 IPA Grand Prix Nationals at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on October 24th, in Columbus, Ohio. I will be competing at 132 pounds, raw with knee wraps.
For programming and coaching inquires, please email SmitleyPerformanceSystems@gmail.comOver the weekend I planned to get over to Elitefts to take my heaviest squat attempt for the training cycle. I ideally would have liked to take this on Saturday, but Steve Goggins was having his strength camp/clinic that day, so I had to settle with a training session on Sunday morning. I met up with Joe Schillero, Mario D'Amico, Alyica Israel, Renea, Joe and Tome McNeil, Bryan, and my training partner Trey came along for the ride. It was a great overall weekend as most of us arrived on Saturday and hung out at the hotel that evening.
I was very pleased with my squatting for the day. I had hoped to work up to the mid 500's or so, and the way 540 felt I just decided to shut it down there. I went a little too deep on that attempt and lost some tightness in the hole, but I was still able to finish the rep...a very good sign for me (at least mentally). I felt like had I stayed tight in the bottom I was good for at least about 20-30 pounds, but just decided that I was already at a 30 pound training PR from the Arnold, and that I was on a good roll for meet day. I reverse banded 570 to get a feel of a PR weight attempt and pretty much called it a day after some light accessory work. Now with the biggest squat behind me, I've just got to focus on one more big deadlift and bench press day, a weekend of openers, and I'm pretty much wrapped up. I think things are clicking nicely and I'm happy with how everything went.
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Items Used in this Training Session Mini Bands Kraits Knee Wraps Maverick Knee Wraps
Warm Up Nothing Extra Today
A1) Squat 60x10 150x5 240x3 290x2 330x1 380x1 420x1 470x1 - add Mavericks 510x2x1 - add Kraits 540x1 570x1 - add reverse mini bands
B1) Sumo Deadlift 135x5 225x3 275x2 315x1 365x5x1
C1) Wide Stance Belt Squat 3x15 C2) Meadows/Tate Squat Machine 3 sets of near failure
D1) Standing Cable Crunch 3x15
