![Dr.Squat visits TPS... [Deadlift & Squat Training Video]](https://www.elitefts.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/IMG_4275.jpg)
So it's been a while... Despite my lack of logging, training has been going great! Nothing hurts, and I seem to have found my groove again with the competition lifts (had been in a bit of a funk lately). The end of the semester is crazy per usual, but I've been able to manage my stress much better this time around.
Volume has been kept pretty high, and I'm a little over 2 weeks out from the USAPL CT Spring Classic (I screwed up the dates in my last post-- dates are hard sometimes...). Really just enjoying lifting again, not stressed out, not hurting, just focusing on progress and what I love about Powerlifting. A lot of this has been due to keeping perspective, but a lot of it also just comes from a positive training environment and surrounding myself with great people/training partners.
Also-- aside from Total Performance Gym being the best place to train [the people, the platforms, the racks, Murph...], it also results in some pretty cool people swinging by the gym. Fred Hatfield (Dr.Squat) and Josh Bryant were in town to do a seminar at TPS! So before the seminar, I'm getting my training session in... I'm getting in the zone, walking up to the platform-- totally unaware of my surroundings. Then once I step up to the bar, sit back into my DL set up, I look up and there's Dr.Squat, Josh Bryant, and Murph all standing there about to watch my set... meanwhile everyone in the gym is watching them about to watch my set... All I could think was "well... better make it good!" It was a solid set, and apparently Dr.Squat told Murph I had pretty good Deadlift form-- so that was a solid win in my book! 
| Squat w/belt | Exercise: | Competition Raw Bench | Exercise: | DB Bench | ||||||
| Load | Reps | RPE | Set # | Load | Reps | RPE | Set # | Load | Reps | RPE |
| 275 | 3 | 6.5 | 1 | 155 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 90 | 6 | 6 |
| 295 | 3 | 7.5 | 2 | 175 | 3 | 8.5 | 2 | 110 | 6 | 7 |
| 305 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 170 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 | 140 | 6 | 8 |
| 305 | 3 | 8.5 | 4 | 175 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 140 | 6 | 8 |
| 305 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 175 | 3 | 8.5 | 5 | 140 | 6 | 8 |
| 305 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 175 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 140 | 6 | 8.5 |
| 290 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 140 | 6 | 8.5 |
| Deadlift w/belt | Exercise: | 2ct pause Bench | Exercise: | Squat no belt | ||||||
| Load | Reps | RPE | Set # | Load | Reps | RPE | Set # | Load | Reps | RPE |
| 335 | 3 | 6.5 | 1 | 155 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 245 | 4 | 6.5 |
| 355 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 165 | 3 | 7.5 | 2 | 265 | 4 | 7.5 |
| 375 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 170 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 275 | 4 | 8 |
| 375 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 170 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 275 | 4 | 8 |
| 375 | 3 | 8.5 | 5 | 170 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 275 | 4 | 8 |
| 375 | 3 | 8.5 | 6 | 170 | 3 | 8.5 | 6 | 275 | 4 | 8 |
| 375 | 3 | 8.5 | 7 | 170 | 3 | 8.5 | 7 | 275 | 4 | 8.5 |
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