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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Sunday I got to ramp up to some heavier weights by really loading up the floor press with all the chains. I figured it would be good for me to make my first max effort movement to be a floor press variation to help give my back just a little extra rest. I can still bench press fine without pain, but I'm trying to be as smart as I can as of right now. I did hit a pretty good 5 rep PR though, so I can't complain about that. Next week I'm going to jump back in to going for some triples and try to get some more weight in my hands and see how that goes. The usually tricep destruction and I was out. Pretty quick Sunday benching.
Items Used in this Training Session
Chains
Mini Band
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) Floor Press vs 4 Chains Per Side
55x10
55x5 - add chains
105x5
145x5
165x5
185x5
205x5 - PR
190x2x5
B1) Close Grip Floor Press vs 2 Chains Per Side
165x10
175x2x10
C1) Rolling Tricep Extensions
3x15
D1) Pressdowns
4x12-20 + drop set
E1) Bench Dips
3 sets, max reps
F1) Single Arm Band Pull Apart
4x25 per arm