Brian Carroll | 10/20/Life 26 weeks out | Week 3, day 1 | RAW SQUATness

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I just finished a 10-week training cycle where I accomplished my goals of getting back to competition strength and shape and will be entering into a long offseason for the upcoming WPO in Nov of this year. Like many other TeamPRS athletes, our very own Tucker Loken is handling my diet.

I’m doing a lot of external rotation rehab currently.  I do this every day, and this is also part of my warm-up on the days I’m lifting. My lat/rotators and pec are a mess, but it’s come from a little bad luck and some neglect on my end.

Saturday, 5.5.18

We had a special guest this past Saturday at Team Samson -Tommy Bohannon of the Jacksonville Jaguars – the starting (and only) Fullback.

I, of course, knew who he is and after viewing Tommy’s IG, I reached out after watching him train alone in his garage during the offseason. Travis Mash handles his programming, and we all know Travis knows his stuff, so I thought a better environment would only help Tommy’s offseason work and help keep him safe.

This week was the third week of my offseason wave. I was going to go a little heavier as I have a deload the following the week. I only went a little heavier than I planned. By about 200lbs, but when you have an environment as we did on Saturday, sometimes you go with it. The juice was worth the squeeze this day, and the RPE was still within range.

Normal warm-up: Again, lots of external rotation

Squat: in belt and sleeves

150×3

190×3

240×3

330×3

420×2

470×1

510×1

600×1

650×1

Deadlifts from 4″ blocks

Many singles at 405.. nothing too heavy, felt explosive

Belt pause squat with band: 4×8

Stir the pot: 60

Excellent session. I Moved over from the SSB bar to the buffalo bar, but I still don’t think my shoulder girdle/pec area is ready for it, so I won’t revisit this for a while and give it some time.

The weight felt great on my back, and Tommy, Lisa and myself had a great session on our mono. Fantastic Group overall on Saturday, more to come on this. The vibe was spot-on and this day was what I needed. The other part of the team spent time on the comp mono and was kicking ass.

Tommy worked up to 560 off the above parallel box, as footballers should and looked very strong and explosive. The Jags have a great S&C coach in ‘Mylo’ who spent time learning with/ under Buddy Morris. And the proof is in the pudding with the way they are coached and trained and play.

I’ll be deloading this coming weekend, also staying steadfast with my rehab and depositing some $$ for the WPO in 6mo. It’s all about this right now, coming in as close to 100% as possible for this. Long way to go, but this is a good thing. Much more to come after the deload.

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Brian Carroll

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Brian is a retired world-class powerlifter with over two decades of world-class powerlifting. From 1999 to 2020, Brian Carroll was a competitive powerlifter, one of the most accomplished lifters in the sport's history. Brian started off competing in bench press competitions 'raw,' then, shortly into the journey, he gravitated toward equipped lifting as there were no "raw" categories then. You only had to choose from single-ply (USPF) and Multi-ply (APF/WPC). Brian went on to total 2730 at 275 and 2651 at 242 with more than ten times his body weight in three different classes (220, 242, 275), and both bench pressed and deadlifted over 800 pounds in two other weight classes. He's totaled 2600 over 20 times in 2 different weight classes in his career. With 60 squats of 1000lbs or more officially, this is the most in powerlifting history, regardless of weight class or federation, by anyone not named David Hoff. Brian realized many ups and downs during his 20+ years competing. After ten years of high-level powerlifting competition and an all-time World Record squat at 220 with 1030, in 2009, Brian was competing for a Police academy scholarship. On a hot and humid July morning, Brian, hurdling over a barricade at 275lbs, landed on, fell, and hurt his back. After years of back pain and failed therapy, Brian met with world-renowned back specialist Prof McGill in 2013, which changed his trajectory more than he could have imagined. In 2017, Brian Carroll and Prof McGill authored the best-selling book about Brian's triumphant comeback to powerlifting in Gift of Injury. Most recently (10.3.20) -Brian set the highest squat of all time (regardless of weight class) with 1306 lbs – being the first man to break the 1300lb squat barrier at a bodyweight of 303 lbs.
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