After sustaining multiple low back issues the past year, and coming off a terrible showing at the XPC Bench Bash, I'm now focused on training to improve my body and mind as I prepare for my wedding in June. I hope to be back on the platform towards the end of 2018.

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Another Saturday of training with the crew in. Since last week I went kind of hard on the strip the rack work, I opted to really go for a crazy workload on the split squats. I'm going to try and work into some lighter SSB squats over the course of a couple weeks, but I'm still not going to do anything too crazy. I'm hoping that after the wedding is all said and done, I can at least make an attempt to get back to some lighter squatting and deadlifting, so that towards the end of the year, I can actually try to get better at them again.


Items Used in this Training Session
Light Band

Warm Up
Soft Tissue Work - Glutes, Hamstrings, TFL, Quads, Calves
Hip Flexor Stretch - 30 sec per leg
Leg Lowering 1 - 10 per leg
Leg Swings (forward and side to side) - 10 per leg
Alternating Lunges - 10 per leg
Single Leg RDL - 10 per leg
Bulgarian Split Squat - 10 per leg
Lateral Lunges - 10 per leg
Hanging Knee Raises - 15

A1) Reverse Hyper Leg Curls
3x12

B1) Bulgarian Split Squats
4x10 per leg; then two drop sets per leg; and then one set of partials at bodyweight (aka the lovely Meadows drop set)

C1) Goblet Squats
5x15

D1) DB Stiff Leg Deadlifts
3x15
D2) Standing Band Crunches
5x15