I'm currently in a off season style of training, trying to bring up weak points and improve body composition for the duration of the summer. At the end of summer I will reevaluate where I stand, and decide whether I would like to compete in the late fall, or wait until the XPC Finals in March of 2016.

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Tuesday was another speed and rep day. It was more of a deadlift focused day, and things went rather well. It took me a bit to get going, but once I got in a rhythm I was good to go. I set a rep PR on my sumo pulls against the quad mini bands, which is nice to see. Gaining just a little bit here and there on my deadlift is huge for me, as this has been the lift that has been the most stubborn. I also hit some interesting accessory movements to take my hamstrings and glutes, and pretty much rounded out the day.

As for my diet/nutrition that I've been working on, I'm glad to report that things have been moving in the right direction. My weight is down an average of 2.5 pounds (based upon weekly average), and I'm feeling better and making progress on my lifts. I've decided that I'm going to finish out the week of training, and make another minor modification. I will be making another adjustment to drop my calories just a hair, and see what happens. Since I've been making such small adjustments, I haven't really reported any hit to recovery or training, so basically I'm going to be finding out my breaking point. I know where I would like to get to by the end of the summer, but I'm not going to sacrifice my lifts. But as long as those continue to slowly move up with the small changes, I'm going to keep going. Just the shear fact that my weight has dropped is enough analytical data at the moment. But I can also tell my body composition is improving as well.

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Items Used in this Training Session
Cambered Squat Bar
EZ Loaders
Chains
Pro Mini Band
Blast Straps
Pro Light Band

Warm Up
Reverse Hyper - 290x3x15

Grip Work
A1) DOH Rack Pull - 295x1 (5 sec hold); 275x1 (max hold, ~10 sec)
B1) Fat Gripz Coan Rack Pull - 2x15 sec
C1) CoC #T - 1 set of max hold; 1 set of max reps

A1) Cambered Bar Speed Squats vs 3 Chains/Side
First rep paused in the hole
65x10
65x5 - add chains
95x3
115x2
135x2
155x2
180x12x2

B1) Sumo Speed Deadlifts vs Quad Mini Bands
135x5
135x5 - add bands
185x3
225x2
255x8x1
265x5
305x5
345x9 - PR

C1) Single Leg Deadstop RDL
3x12 per leg

D1) Banded Dimel Deadlifts
3x20
D2) Banded Deadstop Stiff Leg Deadlifts
2x20

E1) Seated Band Leg Curls
2x30
E2) Blast Strap Fall Outs
3x20