JP Carroll

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JP Carroll is an elite powerlifter from Chicago, Illinois. His top achievement in the sport is a 945-pound squat which is currently ranked 25th all-time SHW raw/wraps. His best total is 2281 — His current goal is to total 2300. His motto: "I’ve dug myself into many holes in life… Here I stand with a big back, broad shoulders and my head held high. Adversity builds character. The scars both physical and mental I carry, serve as reminders that after the darkest nights the sun shall rise again. I’d rather be laid to rest with arthritic hands, a broken heart and scarred skin than being put in my box having led an uneventful life, exiting unscathed — everybody dies, but not everybody lives."

 
2 FREE Ways to Increase Your Total
2 FREE Ways to Increase Your Total

Hard work pays off — not snake oil sales and get-rich-quick schemes. That doesn’t mean you can’t get stronger quickly. It just means you’ll have to put in a little extra work, like bumping up a weight class.

ME Bench 590 lbs
ME Bench 590 lbs
10lbs of my best peaked bench
DE Bench Week 1
DE Bench Week 1
Speed Day 9 x 5, yes 5's
DE Lower Week One
DE Lower Week One
Week one was brutal and fun; I can't wait for next week, shits going to be stupid heavy- I like it.
ME Upper- Week One (My Day)
ME Upper- Week One (My Day)
Another win, that's what its all about here win, win, win...
DE Bench Banded Bowed Bar
DE Bench Banded Bowed Bar
Worked up to 365 straight weight and doubled over purples, for 9x3 started with 325, 3 sets and 345 3 sets and 3 sets with 365. Accessories are high rep and fast-paced picked off of weaknesses Finished with some back work and some sled drags with 5 plates- 1.5 hours total.
DE Lower
DE Lower
week three
It's Lonely at the Top
It's Lonely at the Top
Have you ever dove so deep into something that the light around fades into the darkest of darks, and the only visible image is the one in your mind- the one that drives you deeper-not concerned with when you'll be ever to take in your next breath?
ME Lower 77lb football bar
ME Lower 77lb football bar
Can't beat me
DE Lower Buffalo Bar bands and a Box
DE Lower Buffalo Bar bands and a Box
Buffalo bar plus blue bands and 4 plate quarter, we did these for 8x3 with speed and very little rest time. I got my ass kicked my conditioning isn't where it should be, I felt like a whale in a pool of sharks, but I finished all my sets and reps like a g. Accessories […]
Fall Forward
Fall Forward

When you tuck the ball and fall for a yard, and when you get rolling, take three steps forward and get pushed back two, remember: you still fell forward one step.

On the Other Side of the Tracks.
On the Other Side of the Tracks.
You think you know, but you have no idea.
ME Upper
ME Upper
Same Ol G
ME Lower
ME Lower
This Sucked
My Daughters First Meet
My Daughters First Meet
Deadlifts, since she's new and a dork, they're her favorite. I can't bag on her, especially after wanting to get wrapped up and take a big squat, she even says-- "dad I get what you mean by ten seconds of freedom" fucking onion ninjas.
ME Upper
ME Upper
Chain Gang
ME Lower
ME Lower
ASS & BACK
DE Lower Boring AF
DE Lower Boring AF
hustling
730 Bench- LIGHT Reverse band
730 Bench- LIGHT Reverse band
Huge Bench
Going on the Record with ATWR Holder Heidi Howar
Going on the Record with ATWR Holder Heidi Howar

I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing and training with Heidi, and I can say with absolute certainty that she is the real deal, an ATWR-holding meathead who’s willing to do what it takes to become, and in her case, stay the best.

Max Effort upper Close Grip Incline 545
Max Effort upper Close Grip Incline 545
Max effort is a term I'm new to, but I've got a good understanding of the principal- strain. After three plates I took quarter jumps and worked up to 545 with a close grip on the incline bench. I had the red shoulder saver pad on as well, this was a tricep bench, which is […]
Suspended Good Morning- 780 lbs
Suspended Good Morning- 780 lbs
Last week I tried 780 and missed, as I did this week. I took 690 for a triple previous week and wanted this. So I got out from under the giant cambered bar, caught my breath (sort of) and got right back at it- victory. That was one of the grittiest lifts I've ever completed. […]
Yoke Carries
Yoke Carries
Not as boring
How I Trained for a 600-Pound Bench
How I Trained for a 600-Pound Bench

I’d been using the same blueprint that goes to 500 to get me to 585, and that’s where I went wrong. I had to analyze everything in order to customize a new plan to break that 600-pound barrier. This is how I did that.

Benching
Benching
I'm just here so I don't get fined
Squats, Sorta
Squats, Sorta
PSH
Thursday Benched
Thursday Benched
Yup, Lame
Five Flipping Pounds
Five Flipping Pounds
Three years and two months of playing varsity for team shit show, for a fucking 5 lb pr- five fucking pounds.
Tuesday is For Backs
Tuesday is For Backs
Extra Boring
Rest Days
Rest Days
Lame Af
Little Bit of Benching
Little Bit of Benching
Bored AF
Pulling, My F'n Favorite
Pulling, My F'n Favorite
Boring AF
JP Carroll Takes Second Place at the 2019 XPCs
JP Carroll Takes Second Place at the 2019 XPCs

Before I get into my recap of the 2019 XPC World meet, I want to say, I took second place — even with my fifth 2,200-pound total and seventh 900-pound squat — for no other reason than I wasn’t strong enough that day.

Post Arnold "Training"
Post Arnold "Training"
Consumed by being able to burn everything around me down for the sake of "achievement" is a gift and a curse-if I had a magic wand and could change my ways, I'd probably break it in half grab my bag and go train.
Clout Chasing Clowns
Clout Chasing Clowns
I swear some of these clowns spent more time tagging companies and spend their savings on buying anything and everything they can to attach themselves to something bigger than their total
Last Bench 500 Lbs
Last Bench 500 Lbs
It's a wrap
Squat Opener 830
Squat Opener 830
strong is strong
Hitting My Bench Opener 525
Hitting My Bench Opener 525
Bench
880 Squat With My, Cough*team*Cough
880 Squat With My, Cough*team*Cough
For 10 seconds- It's me, and only me under that bar-and trust me I love that, no not like you dweebs, like an utterly unhealthy infatuation with it. A loner, realizing it takes a village to get to that bar.
Technically, You're Weak
Technically, You're Weak

Enough of the excuses. I’m sick of hearing them. You have the energy to roll on the floor for 45 minutes before you train, take 34 selfies, and tag the gang before you leave the gym, but you can’t spend an extra 30 minutes on your back?

Pulling My Opener 725
Pulling My Opener 725
Rocking that ugly mask of fatigue
Muck Fotivation
Muck Fotivation
I've learned more about myself under that bar, more than in any other experience in my life, work hard help others be rewarded.
565 Paused Bench
565 Paused Bench
Y'all steady trying to drown a shark
Squat 825
Squat 825
Skwatz= dweebs
Arnold - The Silence Phenomenon
Arnold - The Silence Phenomenon
FYFM
Pulling 775- Best Form Ever, NOT
Pulling 775- Best Form Ever, NOT
Carroll pulls
600 Pound Bench- Finally
600 Pound Bench- Finally
SIX HUNNID
Powerlifting translator
Powerlifting translator
I was super tired today, BUT
JM Press 505 x 7
JM Press 505 x 7
insert excerpt here
New Year, New Bench- not Really
New Year, New Bench- not Really
Typical Upper Day
Recovery for the Fat Boys
Recovery for the Fat Boys

Everyone wants to post up the coolest and latest recovery systems, like Salt Floats, Compression Boots, Prowlers, and Sled Drags, but as a big dude (or lady) are you considering walking?

Lions Don't Leave the Serengeti
Lions Don't Leave the Serengeti
People might laugh, or call it stupid, but if this shit sets your soul on fire, you'll get it.
Deadlifts on a Tuesday
Deadlifts on a Tuesday
impromptu pulling
Formulas Are for Babies
Formulas Are for Babies
I have 13 men who are stronger than me, that's 13 too many.
Increase Your Squat in 2019 With this one Trick.
Increase Your Squat in 2019 With this one Trick.
All my years of training and this is what it boils down to.
Squattin' & Pullin'-- again.
Squattin' & Pullin'-- again.
Speedy shit- again.
Build Bigger Legs and a Bigger Squat (with 6-Week Accessory Split)
Build Bigger Legs and a Bigger Squat (with 6-Week Accessory Split)

This isn’t about any unusual angles, movements, or attachments. This is just a meat and potatoes approach to building bigger legs and a bigger squat. Try this out for 6-8 weeks and see how it works for you.

Use It- Sack Up
Use It- Sack Up
All you can do is sack up, ladies ya'll want equality, well here ya have it sacking up is for you too, Injured? Sack up, tired, fired, just plum over everything, sack-the-fuckup.

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