I’m currently in meet prep for the 2016 XPC Finals at the Arnold Sports Festival on March 5th, in Columbus, Ohio. I will be competing at 132 pounds, raw with knee wraps.
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This was my heaviest squat training day of the meet prep cycle, and I always like to make the drive over to get some help and have some watchful eyes on my training from the boss man himself. Training went awesome, and it was a direct reflection of last years day here. All my squats were feeling good and crisp, and the bar seemed to never feel heavy. I opted to shut things down a bit earlier than normal, as I've found that I'm much better to just save things for meet day, rather than push myself and make it hard to recover. My 530 squat is the second heaviest squat I've ever taken in training, and it moved like an opener (even though it's not going to be), so I decided to just reverse band a PR weight, and call it a day (with 570). Just a little bit of accessory work, and that was it. It took forever for the squat portion of my training with how many people and different groups we had going on, but I know that's going to give me a good idea on meet day, as it's going to be a LONG freakin' day.
Things clicked on all cylinders, and then I stuck around and shot the shit with some of the teammates before coming back home. But I did stop on my way to watch the Purdue basketball game...which was classical Purdue, choking a winnable game AT Maryland.
Oh well, at least I didn't choke in front of Dave and disappoint him.
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Items Used in this Training Session Mini Bands Maverick Knee Wraps Krait Knee Wraps
Warm Up Reverse Hyper - 3x15 Standing Cable Crunch - 3x15
A1) Squat 60x10 150x5 200x3 240x2 290x1 330x1 380x1 420x1 470x1 - add Maverick Knee Wraps 500x2x1 - add Krait Knee Wraps 530x1 570x1 - add reverse mini bands
B1) Leg Press Sets of 12 up to a moderate set of 12 Drop set of 20 with a close stance
C1) Dimel Deadlifts 155x3x20
D1) Reverse Hyper 3x20
E1) Belt Squat Marching 3x60 sec
F1) Sit Ups off GHR vs Band 4x15
