Meet report
Squat-474
Bench-342
Deadlift-525
Total: 1361
Had a blast. Took first in my weight class, set 2 state records (bench and deadlift), and took second place overall. I lost by .1 points on the coefficient against a guy that had been powerlifting for a while, so I'll take that for my first meet ever.
Got video of everything but my squat opener
474 squat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHvK_Zte6Q
502 squat attempt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_0hQtt64aU
300 bench press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPpxDJLeoi4
320 bench press (state record)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR_9UDlIBbg
342 bench press (state record)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P8d3bX8gs
450 deadlift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZNhOoCMpCI
500 deadlift (state record)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pelXgEvA30I
525 deadlift (state record)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Sgd9uoNto
Summary: It was a great experience and I learned a lot from it. None of these were real PRs for me, but they were PRs for my bodyweight, so I'll take that. The 502 squat is a dissapointment, I had it and alluva sudden my legs just gave out on me. Shows me the value of low rep work: all this high rep stuff just doesn't prepare you for maximal lifts. All in all, I'm proud of my showing, especially given that I only heard about this meet a month out from it, and did absolutely nothing to train for it. I think on monday I'm going to hang up DC and get back to some linear strength training, and maybe from there hit up Westside when I need some more powerlifting specific stuff. I have been bit by the bug.
NASA put on a good meet, as did the Gary Clock, the local rep. All the other lifters were great, to include a fucking monster of a high school kid in the 308 division. I was sorta the odd man out being that it was my first meet, which ended up confusing the fuck out of people when I was in the running for best overall lifter. Gary says I have a lot of potential, and really this was the inspiration I needed to get back into my training.
What's interesting is how much heavier everything felt to me. Makes me think my weights aren't very well calibrated at home.
glad to see all the hard work paid off and that you got a lot of things out of it
ReplyDeleteI'm happy for you, dude. Knowing you all these years makes it exciting to follow milestones like this.Mind answering some ?s for me? Do they care about grip and stance width? I usually bench with my middle fingers in the rings, but today went narrower with my pinkies in instead (this is how narrow Scot Mendelson goes). Felt way stronger on it. Conversely, my stance on deadlifts is wider than yours (though not super wide).The 500 attempt is fucking beast.
ReplyDeleteIt all depends on the fed. NASA had it that your index finger had to be covering the rings at your widest on grip, but you can grip as narrow as you want from there. For deadlift stance width, your feet can't touch the plates, but otherwise you're good. I used to pull with a wider stance to reduce ROM, but it took my quads out of the movement and made it all lower back, so I changed it up.Thanks for the well wishes all. It's been cool to see my progress, especially looking back to the start of this log where I was doing some stupidass self made programs. It took less than 1000 entries for me to compete in my first meet, haha.
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