I’m currently in meet prep for the 2016 XPC Finals at the Arnold Sports Festival on March 5th, in Columbus, Ohio. I will be competing at 132 pounds, raw with knee wraps.

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Monday called for my extra little session, this time with the lovely Hannah. It's been nice having her back for the holidays, but I know she'll be going back rather soon. I just knocked out a lot of blood flow work and kept things moving along pretty quickly. Grip seems to be improving slightly, so that's also a great thing to notice. I really hate the rolling thunder, and with my tiny ass hands, any progress (even a 2.5 lb PR) is huge for me. I'm hoping the decreasing heavy deadlifting frequency also let's my hands be able to handle more training and recovery wise since I won't have the heavy weights in my hands week in and week out. I guess we'll see next week.


Items Used in this Training Session
EZ Loaders
Chains
Fat Gripz

A1) Bench Press vs Chains
45x20
45x20 with 1 chain per side
45x20 with 2 chains per side
45x20 with 3 chains per side
45x20 with 4 chains per side
45x20 with 5 chains per side

B1) Seated Wide Grip Cable Rows
6x20

C1) Push Ups
100 total reps

D1) DB Curls
no clue,  but about 8 sets of 15 (I did this in between Hannah's working sets)

E1) Rolling Thunder
R - 100x1; 85x8
L - 97.5x1; 82.5x6

F1) Single Arm Fat Grip Pull Up Hang
2 sets of max hold per hand

G1) Hex DB Hold
2 sets of max time with 30 pounds