A little different...

So, this is going to be more of a checklist, it's 17 weeks until my next meet, my more serious training will begin at about 10 weeks out.  As beat up physically and mentally going into that last one I don't want that to happen in this one, I want more than 10/40 pound gains on my meet records.  Going into this one I have to make sure of certain things, the big thing is keeping myself healthy physically, still not sure if I'm going to compete at 308 or SHW, but right now I'm at 310, so my plan is to keep training right around that weight so I can hit either without having to do drastic measures to cut weight or gain weight.  The last meet I was force feeding myself to the point I would throw up then have to eat more just to keep my weight at 335 so my shirt/suit would fit right.  Not exactly the greatest thing, but you do what you have to do.  Right now, eating in the 4000 calorie a day mark are keeping me right at 310, so I'm comfortable eating that amount.  I need to make sure I'm doing my therapy for my joints/muscles.  TENS unit, foam rolling, lacrosse ball, basically everything I can do to recover faster.  Mentally, I'm in a great place right now which is odd to me, scary to me, but pretty wonderful, there's a specific reason for that and she's an awesome reason for it.  My training over the next few weeks before I hit the 10 week out mark will be interesting.  I'm going to try changing some things up, on bench I'm going to do everything narrow gripped for more tricep/shoulder work since overhead presses are still kind of painful for me, I'm going to do all my pulls from a minimum of a 2" deficit.  Rack pulls will be done at the 2nd pin and a 2" deficit for the next 7 weeks until I hit the 600 pound mark.  Speed will be from a minimum of 2" deficit at 335-385.  I also need to make sure I do some heavy bar holds on bench.  Going to add an extra day of triceps work in every other week.  That one will be heavy and on my speed bench weeks.  Hopefully all this will pull some stuff together and I'll get some numbers that I'm happy with, and not numbers I'm happy with because I was hurt I didn't think I'd get those.