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 max effort bench day was a pretty decent one. For the first time in many month I took a heavy single for a PR. I did this to get an idea of some weight I was planning on handling the coming week in the bench shirt. I know I such off the 2 board in general, and adding in the chains just made it that much worse. I know it's not much in terms of range of motion for me, but that's just want I needed for this particular day. I still managed to hit my weak points hard in my accessory work, but I guess this was more of a primer for my CNS for the week to come. But a PR is a PR, so I'll run with it.


Items Used in this Training Session EZ Loaders Chains Sabertooth Bar Mini Bands Shoulder Saver

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) 2 Board Bench Press vs 2 Chains Per Side 55x10 55x5 - add chains 105x5 145x5 195x3 235x3 - add boards 265x3 285x3 295x2 - PR 325x1 - PR 270x2x4

B1) Close Grip Shoulder Saver (Red) Bench Press 195x10 215x10 240x10 - PR

C1) Neutral Grip DB Bench Press 4x15

D1) Cross Body Tricep Extensions 4x12

E1) Pressdowns 100 total reps

F1) Side Lying Rear Delt Raises 4x25 per arm


Brandon Smitley
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