After sustaining multiple low back issues the past year, and coming off a terrible showing at the XPC Bench Bash, I'm now focused on training to improve my body and mind as I prepare for my wedding in June. I hope to be back on the platform towards the end of 2018.

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On this Saturday, I just wasn't really feeling like training. I still jumped in with some of the training partners, but I kept things super conservative. My stress and schedule lately has been out of this world, and most days it seems like it's challenging to even want to get to train. I always have a passion for training, but currently, I just have so much life stuff going on that something has to give, and right now I'm willing to let training slide a bit more than normal. I did opt to squat with the SSB, very lightly, just so that I know that I did something productive. Oh well.


Items Used in this Training Session
Monster Mini Band
SS Yoke Bar

Warm Up
Soft Tissue Work - Glutes, Hamstrings, TFL, Quads, Calves
Hip Flexor Stretch - 30 sec per leg
Leg Lowering 1 - 10 per leg
Leg Swings (forward and side to side) - 10 per leg
Alternating Lunges - 10 per leg
Single Leg RDL - 10 per leg
Bulgarian Split Squat - 10 per leg
Lateral Lunges - 10 per leg
Hanging Knee Raises - 15

A1) GHR vs Band (Elevated)
3x6; then one drop set

B1) SSB Squat
155x5x20

C1) Reverse Hyper
3x15

D1) Hollow Hold
3x30 sec