High Volume Workouts, Bench Press PR and All That Fun Stuff

Happy Wednesday! Now that my competition is in the books and I took a nice deload week, I've started with a brand new workout program that is completely different from what I was doing. But before we get to that, let's back up a bit.

My exciting news for the week...

On Saturday I finally benched 135 for the first time!!! This has been a huge goal of mine for quite sometime and I was beyond thrilled to get it! It certainly wasn't the prettiest thing I've ever done and definitely needs a little work but the fact that I did it makes me feel very happy and accomplished and like my hard work is definitely paying off.

Anyway, back to my new program. I'm doing more of a mountain dog training program for awhile. It's way more volume than I was doing for my powerlifting training but I love it so far. I'm only on day 3 but day 1 and 2 both got the best of me. Mountain Dog training is a program that will train the muscle, not the movement like all the powerlifting training I've been doing. It's definitely a big change but I'm very excited to see the results it brings.

I've also changed up my diet a bit recently. I'm doing a mix between carb nite and the velocity diet. With the velocity diet, I have protein shakes throughout the day and then at night I have a real meal and keep it very clean. Once a week (still Sunday) I have my carbs like I was doing before. It was an adjustment to only have liquids during the day but I'm liking it so far. The biggest thing I have to do is make sure my shakes are large enough or else I find myself not getting enough calories and completely without energy.

I'm leaning towards the idea of doing another competition the end of June (my first full meet). I haven't decided 100% but I think it would be a ton of fun and I would really like to get some sort of a squat number on the board (even though it's definitely my weak lift)

I learned a ton at the LTT seminar over the weekend and can't wait to apply what I learned to my lifts because I think it will help me make awesome gains. It was a really fun experience to get to meet such talented and hard working lifters and have them give me advice to better myself. I'm very pleased with how my weight lifting is going and I can't wait to continue to work hard on my new program and keep progressing!


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