ME Lower: Cambered Bar Squats [PR!] (w/VIDEO)

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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Saturday's training kicked off my final week of real off season training. It's been a great off season, and I'm beginning to see a lot of my hard work shine through. It was a good squat day, ending with a PR on the cambered bar, after having hit a PR about a month ago. I've gotten drastically stronger in my mid back and have done a better job of staying tight. I'm going to continue to push the work this week, and then take a good, well deserved deload week. This should give me 11 weeks to get ready for WPC World's, and start to dial things in for the meet.

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Items Used in this Training Session Cambered Bar SS Yoke Bar Prowler Light Band

Warm Up Hip Flexor Stretch - 30 sec per leg Leg Swings (forward and side to side) - 10 each Single Leg RDL - 10 per leg Bulgarian Split Squat - 10 per leg Goblet Squat - 10 Standing Band Crunch - 15

A1) Cambered Bar Squat 65x10 155x5 205x3 245x3 295x3 335x3 385x3 415x1 445x3 - PR 410x2x3

B1) Cambered Bar Pause Squat 365x6 - PR 335x3x6

C1) Close Stance SSB Strip the Rack Squats 3x20

D1) Prowler Pushes 3 trips, down and back

E1) Reverse Hyper 3x25 E2) Standing Band Crunches 4 sets of a lot