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I just finished a 10-week training cycle where I accomplished my goals of getting back to competiton strength and shape and will be entering into a long offseason for the upcoming WPO in Nov of this year.

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More soon to come with our Gift of Injury courses, with our kickoff seminar being early December in Columbus, Ohio. Stu and I will also be speaking on Gift of Injury at SWISS on October 2018 in Canada. Much more news to come. I will keep you all updated.

I did something wonky to my pec about 3 weeks ago as I was warming up before squat/DL day. It was bizarre. Nothing ripped off but more of a strain and a cramp. None the less it was very tight and locked up for a couple of weeks. It happens when I start getting too lean.

I want to sufficiently address this (i.e. why I think it happened) in an article soon but long story short it set me back a few weeks but I’m back now.

Saturday, after a couple weeks of very light training and core work, I started back to my normal squat/DL training.

I took it easy but here is how it went:

Normal warm-up: 

Band fly

McGill Big 3

BW squat/Goblet squat

Empty bar

Squats w/SSB:

165x3x3

255x3x3

300x1x3

Belt squat with pause: 

3×6

Leg Extension Leg Curl: 3×8

Stir the pot: 60

It was good to get back under the bar. I didn’t want to crank on my pec and shoulder so much, hence the SSB.

Weights felt great. But it was 300lbs lol. It was good to squat again, regardless.

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Monday, Bench day

This was my first week back under the bar. I did a little work with the band and DB’s but no bar work.

I took it very easy after a thorough warm-up.

Warm-up:

Shoulder dislocations

McGill big 3

Band fly

Push-up/empty bar work

Bench:

135x3x3

185x3x3

225x2x2

Called it good there. No pain, tightness and the right pec felt better and less sore the next day than my right pec.

Incline DB press: 3×10

DB skull: 3×10

Band flye: 3×10

Band press-down: 5×15

Stir the pot: 60

So glad to be back in training and pain-free! The last few weeks have been erratic since I’ve traveled and been a little hurt but I’m in a groove back and very thankful.

More soon to come.