After coming off my best meet performance of my career, I am now officially a beat up powerlifter. I'm having some minor low back issues that I'm working on mending up, and then I'll begin to find a competitive option. My goals for 2017 are to compete in a bodybuilding show and also get back to the platform 100% healthy.

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With missing two days of training on Tuesday and Wednesday, I opted to use Friday as a make up day for some of that training. I still kept to training upper body as the priority, but just decided to knock out a little bit of back, chest, and shoulders. It wasn't really anything I had planned for the day, but I didn't want to do any dynamic effort pressing yet. I figured I missed so much quality training, that I would double down on trying to train anything that I could. I'll start week 8 off as if I'm only working on improving my bench press, and just train my lower body as I'm able to do so. Right now that's all I can do, and I felt the combo day I put together was just a good way to cap the week off while I lay out some new training for moving forward.


Items Used in this Training Session

Warm Up
Cats & Camels - 10
Quadraped T-Spine Ext - 10 each
Band Dislocations - 10
Alternating Band Dislocations - 10 each
Band Pressdowns - 15
Band Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns - 15
Band Face Pulls - 15
Single Arm Band Fly - 15 each
Band Rows - 15
Band Curls - 15

A1) Chest Supported Row Machine
3x10

B1) High Row Machine
3x12 + drop set

C1) Wide Grip Lat Pulldown
3x12

D1) Neutal Grip Lat Pulldown
3x20

E1) Neutral Grip Chest Press Machine
3x12

F1) Incline Prone DB Fly
3x20
F2) Rear Delt Raises
3x25

G1) Cable Lateral Raises
4x15 per arm

H1) Snatch Grip Upright Rows
3x20