Brian Carroll Week 3 day 3 & Week 4 day 1

I just finished competing at the XPC Arnold Finals 3/07 2015 where I totaled 2610@242 and won the overall. I did not achieve ALL of my goals but I’m still happy with the results, not content.

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I’m now looking to possibly compete at the RPS Atlantic City meet in August at 242. This will be another fun challenge for me as I will have a unique travel schedule throughout the summer. I will be having Adam Driggers and Jonathan Byrd keeping me accountable week to week when I’m in town starting at about 10 weeks out to ensure I’m getting adequate work in since my time home with the crew will be limited. I’ll also be enlisting the help of Scott Paltos and Beth Thomas to keep an eye on my programming while traveling and when to push and when to back off.

I’ll also bounce some things off of Daniel Dalenberg, Clint Smith and Zane Geeting here and there.

The plan is to take my heavy weeks while home, and working raw and in briefs while gone on the road. Too many distractions while traveling to ensure that I’ll be on point and have all I need to go over 1k on the squat.

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I’m now ready to get my ass in gear. I typically suffer from some post meet depression because, lets face it – we put a lot into this crap and no matter what I have a bit of a let down after a meet.

I ate too much and didn’t train enough but that’s all behind me. I was worried that my lack of diet consistency and oreo binges as well as the lack of training focus would tank my blood work. Thankfully the work I’ve put in over the last 11mo has paid off.

HDL, LDL is both normal
Liver and kidney 100% normal function

The only thing that came back flagged was estrogen was super low. Like almost undetectable. I just got off the phone with them and told them I needed to retake it… Because it should read ZEROooo. No, but I’m very happy that everything is good. In the past LDL would be high, HDL super low and liver enzymes elevated.

So good news for sure…. Over 10 years pretty straight of being on high octane fuel, with a terrible diet can be rectified with a solid game plan along with diet with cardio. Probably not always the case but I fully believe 100% that it can be mitigated if you do it right.

Wednesday training – Squat/DL assistance

Normal warm-up…

Training
McGill Chin: lots
Barbell Rack Row: 5×5
Piston squat: 5×5
1-arm KB Swing: 3×12
Goblet Squat: 3×12
DOH shrug: 3×10
Rolling planks

Good session which made me sore. My conditioning sucks right now and only takes me a few weeks to get back so I’m not worried.

I was actually still sore from Wednesday for my session today. Here’s what today looked like:

Had my traps touched up the other day at the Tattoo shop so the bar was not going to work on my back so..
SSB: 5×5
1-arm KB swing: 3×12
Goblet squat: 3×12
Bulgarian split: 3×10
Band shoulder dislocations
1-leg GM: 3×12
Rolling plank: 3×15
Birddogs – lots

DONE.

Legs were smoked but like I said, they kinda were prior to the session. Had a great crowd out today that’s prepping for the RPS meet in a few weeks in Ft Myers. Lisa G, Keith, Filipe and Jason look great.

Time to crank things up a notch for some good offseason work prior to getting ready for prep this summer.

I’ll lay out some of what I plan on doing in a few days.

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Brian Carroll

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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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