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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Tuesday's training session was much better than my previous two Tuesday's I've had of this meet prep training cycle. Like I mentioned in my other log last week, I just seemed to overshoot my SSB squat training max considering I was running off an approximate 8RM vs running off a good 1-5RM. The SS Yoke Bar just really fries my upper back, and I have a hard time holding the arch under heavier loads, so my training max was flawed. So what I opted to do was drop my training max by 15%, and add in a box to make sure that I'm; A) getting proper depth as I tend to cut this close with the SS Yoke Bar, and B) work more on driving my head out of the hole (or in this case off the box). Well this turned out to be a very wise decision, as I hit a rep PR off the box, and I did a much better job holding my arch and getting in more quality work.

However, during my warm ups, my gas heater ran out of gas, and I didn't have the garage near as warm as I prefer. Matter of fact, the garage was only 18 degrees, according to lovely Snapchat (feel free to add me @bsmitley to witness my battles of trying to beat trains). Anyways, I had to layer up good and keep my session moving at all times. It was cold, but not cold enough to stop me from training. Unfortunately it was cold enough to make me put my grip training back another day. I'm not too pleased with that, but it is what it is.

A much better training day, and I think I've found a good supplemental movement to keep my deadlift and squat progressing without destroying me in the process. Cheers to that. And my hot cocoa post workout.

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Items Used in this Training Session
Average Bands
SS Yoke Bar
Box Squat Box
Monster Mini Bands

Warm Up
Reverse Hyper - 3x15
Standing Cable Crunch - 3x15

A1) SSB Speed Squats vs Average Bands
65x10
65x5 - add bands
95x5
115x5
135x5
150x5x5

B1) Sumo Speed Deadlifts
135x5
185x3
245x2
295x1
325x1
355x10x1

C1) SSB Box Squats
65x5
155x5
205x5
230x5
265x5
305x12 - PR

D1) SSB Good Mornings vs Monster Mini Bands
65x5
65x5 - add bands
115x5
135x5
155x3x12

E1) GHR
3 sets of near failure

F1) Reverse Hyper
4x30

G1) Standing Band Crunches
5x30