22 Dec Brian Carroll 10/20/Life Offseason week 5, day 1 – squat/bench/dead with video!

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January 17th and 18th 2015
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What will be covered:

-Offseason training for mass
-Correcting weaknesses in movements
-Fixing muscular imbalances
-Injury rehabilitation
-Mobility and Prehabilitation
-Training mentality – How not to get complacent, how to build confidence in your lifts through proper goal setting
-Strength peaking
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-Hands on coaching for the Squat, Bench, and Deadlift

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11-ish weeks until the Arnold, which is March 7, 2015.

I’m finishing week 4 of offseason work this week.

Update: BW has hit a low of 257.5 currently and is floating between 257-260

I’m making Saturday a day to hit all 3 big movements – squat/bench/deadlift to ensure my back continues to have the conditioning necessary to improve. Also, I REALLY LIKE doing all 3 on one day, then just assistance work on the other 2 days. Works well, especially raw.

I’ll be finishing up my offseason work this coming week and then move my schedule around to a more traditional split.

Normal warm-up: Always McGill big 3
1-arm KB swing
KB Goblet

Training goal for the day was to work up a little bit on all three lifts but not push too hard with potential to jeopardize my health for the upcoming meet prep.

As equipped lifters we have to toe this line and stay smart. It’s easy to want to ‘show off’ and shut people up, but I learned the hard way in 2009 that it’s not what matters – gym lifts.. but what you do in the meet. I almost lost the ability to press decent ever again by going heavy raw (550 in 2009 about a month out from a big meet). Thankfully I can but it was a long road back from an unnecessary injury.

Yes, I’m going to do a raw meet in the future. I want to get my equipped goals out of the way first.

Back to training: goal was about an RPE of 7 on all lifts:

Training
Squat: 725×2 – in wraps
Bench: 450×2
Dead: 625×1

I have veered away from multiple reps from the floor on dead and I wanted to stay true to my rehab and only pulled singles. I’m trying to be a little bit more intelligent… Sometimes.

Everything felt good. I did’t try to push any max and everything was smooth and I stayed true to the offseason plan!

I’ll be finishing up this week with assistance work, a deload next week then back into the gear!

I’m looking forward to pushing toward the Arnold. It will be March before we know it!

I will be out of town next weekend for xmas, but I’ll be starting my cycle officially for the Arnold Jan 3ish. I’m in solid shape so 7-8 weeks will be just right.

I’m more motivated than ever for this meet! Hope to see you there!

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Brian Carroll

Owner and Founder at PowerRackStrength.com

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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