03 Feb Brian Carroll | Arnold XPC Training | Week 6 | Day 1 |

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Had kinda a weird day prior to deads. This is 715 and around an opener. A second will be dependent upon my subtotal and current placing. 5 weeks out – I have some work to do & adjustments. This will come the next 2.5 weeks. #10weeks #20weeks #lifetime #1020life #tentwentylife #xpc #usopen #teamPRS

A post shared by Brian G Carroll (@briancarroll81) on Jan 30, 2016 at 3:31pm PST

I’m about 4.5 weeks out from the Arnold & 11.5 out from the RPS US Open and am knee-deep in peaking phase.

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Normal warm-up which you can read about HERE McGill Big 3

The goal for this Saturday training session was to take an opener on squat and deadlift with a RB second attempt also on squat. Things went pretty well, but I had a few issues.

Squat
Predator briefs
750×1 – added wraps
840×1 – went full gear. Went well
935x1x2 – same – full gear, I screwed this all up and took it back to back reps. It gassed me.
1040×1 – still gassed from the blunder prior set, so I racked it.
1040×1 – hard but I made it through. Not happy.

Was supposed to take 1100 with bands but was smart and called it.

Deadlift
445×1
535×1
625×1 – last warmup
715×1 – opener

I was up for a bad training session and so I wasn’t too mad about this one. I made some dumb mistakes leading up to and during my last warmups where I racked it after a half squat, then walked right back and took it again. This gassed me. This was stupid of ME. I own that. Wont happen again. Do something stupid? Here’s how I handle it – I get mad at myself, beat myself up and then forget about it. The end.

Deadlift went well even though I was gassed mentally and physically. I can still pull my opener though! haha. I totally have moved past this session and am focusing on this week.

I benched monday night and that went well. I’ll post about that tomorrow!