13 Jun Brian Carroll Week 2 Offseason 6.13.17

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Tool 2017 Allstate arena Chicago, IL. Lots more clips in my story. #1020life #allstate #tool #maynard #chicago #chicagoland #concert

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I had a great time in Chicago as my awesome wife Ria planned out a week of concerts and baseball as a surprise. Probably to get me out of the house? Thank you again Rachel for your helping Ria plan.

The trip started last Wed with a flight to Chicago, a tour of Chicago (architecture Chicago river tour) with Rachel Zipsie and a Cubs game all in one swoop.

Thursday, we toured the city a bunch, ate lots of tastey food and then went to see Tool as they were in Chicago, which was by far the best concert I’ve been too. Whenever you come away liking a band even more after seeing live, and aren’t disappointed, it’s a win in my experience. And they killed it.

Friday we had a day game. So we ate some food (Portillo’s), drinks then hit Wrigley, for a cool day game. The weather was perfect the entire trip and a nice breeze was coming off of lake Michigan to keep it comfortable if not a little chilly.

We finished up Friday night at the Hancock building for a drink, then back to Portillo’s then called it a night. We did Portillo’s 3x per Rachel’s advice during the trip haha.

Saturday am, early 7:30 flight back direct to Jax. We grabbed some JJ’s and then napped for a few hours and then met our good friends Adam and Sheena Crosby for some good, then SOJA and Dirty Heads concert in St. Augustine. What a great time!

To finish a great week/weekend, I found a few cars to beat up on during the ride home. Super fun.

Anyway, back to reality…. Real training started last week but was broken up by vacation. So I’ll start with what I did last night and call it week 2, and skip week 1 which was just sets of 5 on the bench…

I’m following the offseason Combo template straight out of the 10/20/Lifebook for the next 10 weeks. The only modifications I’m making are low reps with the squat and deadlift, but normal higher reps with bench. I’ll make up the total volume on my assistance work concerning the squat/DL.

Normal Warm-up
A. Band fly
B. McGill big 3
C. Side lateral
D. Empty bar x20

Bench 4×4 top set of 295 – RPE 6
A: Shoulder saver pad bench: 3×6
B: Chain skulls: 3×10
C: Bench dip/SS/Triceps cable press-down
D: Stir the pot to finish

I’m doing feet up to give the core some extra work and to not stress my back and hips anymore than necessary at this point.

This is my second week benching again after a 3mo layoff, so it’s a start. Feels great to be back to training though.

Keep an eye out for an article concerning my offseason plan.

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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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