I’m currently in off season mode working on bringing up certain qualities and weaknesses I noticed from the IPA Grand Prix Nationals. This training will be laying the ground for my training cycle into the 2016 XPC Finals.

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Saturday's training was crazy. Not because of the lifting, but because of the weather. It was 71 degrees, which is just stupid for the middle of December. I'm certainly not complaining, but it was just awkward to have the garage door up this time of year.

As for training, things were decent. My squat still needs some work, but we're seeing progress. I'm still handling some really good weights and hitting some good rep PR's, I just need to get a bit more comfortable in the hole. It looks like I might be needing to add in some pause squats into my training for the XPC's, but as for now I'm going to hold off. The strength is definitely there, it just looks to be a minor confidence problem right now. I also need to work on continuing to drive my heads and traps back into the bar. Always minor things. However, I do feel like running this for the day was good to let me know where my strength is currently at to begin training for the XPC's here soon. I'll be laying out my training cycle probably this week, and being to try to connect the dots backwards from what worked last year, but what also worked to get me bench and deadlift PR's at this last meet. I've got ideas, I've just got to make it work.

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Items Used in this Training Session
EZ Loaders
Chains
Box Squat Box
Mini Band
Prowler
Spud Ab Strap

Warm Up
Reverse Hyper - 3x15
Standing Cable Crunch - 3x15

A1) Squat vs 3 Chains Per Side
65x10
65x5 - add chains
155x5
205x5
225x5
245x5
265x5
295x3
325x3
355x3 - PR
375x2 - PR
345x4 - PR
310x8 - PR

B1) RDL
135x8
185x8
225x8
275x8
315x8
345x8

C1) Poor Man Inverse Curls
3x10

D1) Chair Deadlift
3x15 (standing up every 3rd rep)

E1) Prowler Work
2 sets down and back, backwards
2 sets down and back, forwards

F1) Standing Cable Crunches
3x20