21 Sep Brian Carroll: FAT and Week 4 – Day 2 + 3

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As I mentioned on Monday, I’m back in the life and training groove. I’m going to casually mention this but Gift of Injury – ‘The Strength Athletes Guide to recovering from Back Injury to Winning Again’ will be live on PRS next week with a special offer for those who grab it first (if interested). Anyway, next weekend’s training will be less than optimal with the RPS meet going on, so I will likely either get a training session in the warm-up room after squats/Friday night when we finish setting up our booth. Make sure to stop by the booth, say Hi and support Bert and Mindy as they work very hard putting on very good meets! I WILL have copies of GOI with me next weekend, too.

Monday was a good training session and so was Wednesday’s.

Monday 9.18.17 Bench day..

Normal Warm-up
A. Band fly/Band shoulder dislocation (break a sweat)
B. McGill big 3
C. push-ups
D. Empty bar x20 (when applicable)

Incline DB press: 6×10
Flat DB press: 4×10
Bench dip SS band press-downs: 3×10
Skulls: 3×15
Modified skulls: 3×15
Front and side plank: timed holds

Didn’t want to get under a bar, so stuck with DBs and pushed the pace a bit to an RPE of 7, where I’m staying at this point in training. This is a good opportunity to give my shoulders more of a break, and fill out my pecs some. This session felt good. Byrd took his opener and did well with it to a 1bd in his SDP. I’m looking forward to seeing Byrd, Jason and Lisa kill it next weekend in Fort Lauderdale.

Wednesday 9.20.17 Squat/DL assistance day…
Lat pulldown: 4×10
McGill pull-up: 10 singles (been a while)
DB row: 3×10
DB shrug: 5×10
One leg GM: 3×10
Hammer/arnold curl: 5×10
Front and side planks: holds for time

My knees have been bothering me a little bit for the first time in my life. This is probably due to being a little bit heavier than I should have been during this summer. I take full blame for this. So, I have been avoiding any Split squats or piston squats for a few weeks in hope to cure the pain a bit. But overall, the session was good and I’m feeling big, strong and slightly fat. This will change over the next few weeks as I dial in the details of my diet and supps. Right now the focus is on the basics: Eating consistently well, taking Primer multi-vitamin, Helix BCAA’s during training, and drinking a Quattro shake post training. Nothing too fancy, and it all tastes great.

And this: if you are into performance enhancement, you need to watch this. I’ve watched this over and over the last 4 years. It’s awesome.

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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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