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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Tuesday called for some more dynamic effort work and a slight increase in the bar weight. Still running with some light accommodating resistance, but I'm trying to be smart about how I keep increasing the weight from week to week. It will probably fluctuate between bar weight and accommodating resistance until I can load enough to use my standard dynamic effort loading parameters that I like. Accessory work is also beginning to take a bit more shape like I'm powerlifting as well, which has had me quite sore lately as my body adjusts. Everything is still clicking though and feeling good. Very happy with the slow build up.


Items Used in this Training Session
SS Yoke Bar
Box Squat Box

Mini Bands
Light Band

Warm Up
PRI Breathing Work - 5 min
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) SSB Speed Box Squats vs Mini Bands
115x12x2

B1) Sumo Speed Deadlifts vs Doubled Mini Bands
50kg (110) x10x1

C1) SSB GHH/Back Ext off GHR
3x12

D1) SSB Lunges
3x12 per leg

E1) Single Leg RDL
3x15 per leg

F1) Band Good Mornings
100 total reps

G1) Hollow Holds
3x60 sec