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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Saturday's training was focused on helping my guys out again rather than be about me doing anything all the special. I basically just opted to pick a couple bang for my buck exercises and between everyone's sets just make sure that I got to 100 total reps. Not the most programmed based way to go about things, but I'm not exactly worried about getting weaker, but rather just maintaining some strength and staying healthy. I'll build all the strength back up over the summer at some point.

CJ managed to get up to a 900 pound squat with reverse monster bands, and Demetrius up to 700. I'm really impressed by these guys, and CJ is going to make some noise at the XPC's.

My goblet squats got all the way up to the 90 pound DB this week, so that's awesome. Next week I'll creep up to the 100 or so, and then the following week I should be ready for my huge 115 pound squats. Minor victories though.

That's really it for Saturday. I had a great day on a personal level, so that's always a plus as well.

If you're wanting me to add some good stuff to these logs that are more rehab based, feel free to leave me a comment on what you'd like me to cover. I feel like I repeat myself quite a bit on the rehab/lower body spectrum of things.

Items Used in this Training Session
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) GHR (Elevated)
100 total reps

B1) Goblet Squats
5x20
*I managed to work up to a little bit more weight again this week, still pain free*

C1) Reverse Hyper
5x20
C2) Standing Band Crunches
5x20