I competed in my first meet after a year break on November 24^th, 2018 and have recently moved across the country to Calgary, Alberta. Training will be ramping up slowly, but my focus will remain on my family and my professional endeavors. While I would love to compete again, I want to enjoy experiencing my new city and ensuring the success of a long-awaited business venture.  Stay tuned for more on that!

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Things with my bench training are going really well.  I essentially I have a “fluff and buff” volume day where I do 3 pressing variations, a main bench day seen here and I do some technique work on my front squat day.  I’m responding really well so far.  The weights aren’t within PR range, but with this much pressing volume within the week, that isn’t necessarily the goal.  The weights just need to keep trending up overall and good things should happen.  My upper body is definitely starting to fill out more.  I am also doing an upper back movement every training day, which I’ve done in the past with great success.  Going back to deadlifting conventional, this will be crucial, but more importantly it should also give me a stronger platform form which to press from.  All good things!

This was the last week of my first structured 3 week wave of the off-season.  Goal was a heavy double and then down work on the Swiss bar.  I mentioned in a previous log that my bench training is focused on getting stronger arms, hence the feet-up variation.  I’m going to repeat this 3 week wave after my deload and aim to better my numbers at the same RPE.  We will see how this progression works.  I have had great success with similar formats with a few of my clients on their weaker lifts, so I am optimistic.

Bench

1. Feet up bench – 110/120/130/140/150/160×2@RPE 9
2. Swiss bar – (90% of above top set) 145x2x4sets
3. Chaos Pushups – 30/30/25/15
4. Lat Pulldown – 4×10
5. 3 way shoulder raise – 3x12ea
6. Rope Pressdowns – 4×15
7. Circuit of Copenhagen Plank, Sandbag Carry and ShoulderRok x3 sets for “Core”

Warm-Up

1. Daily
   1. Walk – 10minutes
   2. McGill Big-3
   3. Full Body CARs
2.  Upper
   1. ShoulderRok – 4x10ea
   2. McGill T-Spine – 10reps
   3. Pushups – 3-5×10-15
   4. Band Pull Apart series – 2x10ea x5 positions