After an abysmal showing at APF Equipped Nationals, I'm now in an off season mode of training. Currently, I am in a strength block building up strength and weaknesses to prepare me for a meet prep cycle for WPC World's in November.

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Wednesday's work was pretty easy. I was certainly feeling the deficit deadlifts from Tuesday, so I opted to just keep all my weights really light and just make sure I could feel some good contractions. Typing this out made it look like much more on paper (screen?), but really it was pretty quick paced and not hard at all. My legs still felt like balloons, but it was a good feeling and I felt way better than when I started. I almost opted to skip this work in general, but I knew that if I just got started and moving around, this would be the case. A bit more of a quad emphasized day, but still a bit of hammy work.


Items Used in this Training Session

Warm Up Bike - 5 min

A1) Seated Leg Curls 1x15 1x12 1x10

B1) Close Stance Horizontal Hack Squat 3x20 - no lockout/constant tension

C1) Leg Press 3x20

D1) Single Leg Leg Press 3x15 per leg

E1) Leg Extensions 100 total reps

F1) Seated Calf Raises 3x15 F2) Seated Calf Machine 3x15


Brandon Smitley
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