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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I read a post the other day from Trevor Jaffe, whom I greatly respect, speaking about how one of his most successful clients (multiple WR holder Jen Rotsinger) describes her off-season work as “nothing special.”  These days, people are looking for a quick fix, or immediate progress and quite frankly I find it unfortunate.  The ones setting the records and winning the big meets understand that progress happens in the trenches, doing the grunt work, the things that are “nothing special.”  I may not be at a level where I can be spoken about amongst those lifters, but that is the work ethic that I try to emulate and the attitude that I try to cultivate in those I coach.

This week’s training went according to the plan.  Everything progressed as planned.  My hip continues to improve and I believe that after next week’s planned deload, I will be out of the woods and free to push it a bit harder next 3 week block.  I really think I hit a home run with the changes I made to my squat training.  Squatting more frequently has improved my recovery and my mobility because I am not doing as much volume within a single session and it gives me an opportunity to be in a squat position 3x per week.  I am finding it takes me less time to warm-up and my positioning is improving each week.  On the bench, the additional frequency is helping as well.  More exposures has allowed me to improve my technique and it’s resulted in the RPE’s this training block being lower, while the weighs were heavier.  Can’t argue with that!

All that being said, I’ll keep my “nothing special” and keep making progress.  You can have the flashy stuff.

Squat

1. High Bar – 4×8, up to 1 top set at 210kg RPE 7
2. RDL – 485x5x4sets
3. Mod Grip Pin Press – 310x5x3sets
4. SL RDL – 3x10ea /ss CSR – 4×12
5. Bulgarian SS – 3x10ea /ss Iso Reverse crunch Deadbug – 4x8ea

Bench

1. Feet Up Bench – up to 165×2
2. Swiss bar – 150x2x4sets
3. DB bench – 4×8
4. Weighted Pullups – 30reps
5. Pressdowns – 4×20 /ss 3way shoulder – 3x12ea
6. SA Farmer Walk – 4sets each

Warm-up

1. Daily
   1. Walk – 10minutes
   2. McGill Big-3
   3. Full Body CARs
2. Lower
   1. 90/90 Hip Transfers – 6ea way
   2. Multi directional lunges – 2x10ea
   3. Tactical Frog with internal rotations – 2x10ea
   4. Goblet Squats – 3-5×10
3. Upper
   1. ShoulderRok – 4x10ea
   2. McGill T-Spine – 10reps
   3. Pushups – 3-5×10-15
   4. Band Pull Apart series – 2x10ea x5 positions