After coming off my best meet performance of my career, I am now taking some time to focus on competing in bodybuilding over the spring of 2017. My nutrition coaching is through Cliff Wilson, and I have not yet determined the shows I'm competing in at this time.
For programming and coaching inquires, please email SmitleyPerformanceSystems@gmail.com or visit brandonsmitley.comOn Sunday I ended up getting my training done up at Purdue with some of the Purdue Barbell members. Ever Fall Semester we do a mock powerlifting meet to help grow the sport, club, and overall use it as an educational experience to get members the chance to compete before actually hitting a real platform. This helped with major success come members firsts meets, and it's always a fun time.
After the meet, I stuck around the rec center to train for a little over an hour and get some good work in. Then we all made our way over to Hu Hot to smash some grub before I made my way back home. We had some awesome lifts, a great time, too much food, and way too many inappropriate jokes. Days like this are why I love the sport of powerlifting!
Items Used in this Training Session
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) Incline Bench Press 45x10 95x8 135x8 165x8 185x8 205x8 225x8 - PR 205x2x10
B1) Close Grip Incline Bench Press 155x10 175x2x10
C1) Decline DB Skull Crushers 4x10
D1) Cable Pressdowns 3x15; then 2 drop sets on the last set
E1) Bench Dips 3 sets, max reps *Using a 3 sec eccentric on these*
F1) Rear Delt Flys on Cable Matrix Machine 5x20 *This machine was really cool and allowed for a great rear delt contraction. Thoroughly enjoyed this!*
