Skid, numbers look great. I can’t wait to see where you end up.
I will also pass on the ‘output’ side of your nutritional plan. The steak and ice cream post-meet meal looks like fun. What flavor?
I think the steak will be meat-flavored. 
Vanilla for the ice cream.
Was just checking out the APA American records for 45-49 Raw 198 class. They were just updated 8-28-08
45-49 RAW NT
Squat 355 Dave Ritter
Bench 325 Richard Cowser
Deadlift 450 David Ritter
Total 1120 David Ritter
My openers are 345/255/445/1045.
I really need to get my bench up for the next comp.
If I can hit 375/275/475 I can take the total at 1125. That would be a big IF, though. Anything can happen.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
I think the steak will be meat-flavored.
Vanilla for the ice cream.
Was just checking out the APA American records for 45-49 Raw 198 class. They were just updated 8-28-08
45-49 RAW NT
Squat 355 Dave Ritter
Bench 325 Richard Cowser
Deadlift 450 David Ritter
Total 1120 David Ritter
My openers are 345/255/445/1045.
I really need to get my bench up for the next comp.
If I can hit 375/275/475 I can take the total at 1125. That would be a big IF, though. Anything can happen.[/quote]
Holy shit…you are damn close…I’m getting excited for you!
Freakin’ pumped for you. I hope you put up 2 new records this meet.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Freakin’ pumped for you. I hope you put up 2 new records this meet.[/quote]
Thanks JW and eco. Hopefully I haven’t jinxed myself. I find I’m getting more superstitious as meet day approaches…
[quote]skidmark wrote:
ecogenx wrote:
Freakin’ pumped for you. I hope you put up 2 new records this meet.
Thanks JW and eco. Hopefully I haven’t jinxed myself. I find I’m getting more superstitious as meet day approaches…[/quote]
How well I know the feeling!
Can’t find the date of the meet…Looks great Mr. Skid. Very solid indeed. Channel the T-Nation and you’ll kick some ass! I too am really getting fired up for you, and I’m sending out all the strength this middle-sized white guy can muster.
God Speed to you.
Thanks Mr. Z. I can use all that I can get.
So your meet is when? Somehow I missed that information.
[quote]zildjianman wrote:
So your meet is when? Somehow I missed that information.[/quote]
This coming Saturday in fact.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
zildjianman wrote:
So your meet is when? Somehow I missed that information.
This coming Saturday in fact.[/quote]
Go go power ranger!
Err, that is what my daughter assures me will inspire you. Of course she is only eight.
Skid, those numbers are easily in reach. Stay with your nutrition plan and get 100% focus. You’ve put the work in, now go out and have a great time.
How do you look in you one piece suit? I haven’t gotten mine yet. Can’t wait to walk around the yard in it.
[quote]Elaikases wrote:
skidmark wrote:
zildjianman wrote:
So your meet is when? Somehow I missed that information.
This coming Saturday in fact.
Go go power ranger!
Err, that is what my daughter assures me will inspire you. Of course she is only eight.
[/quote]
LoL! Go,go gadget hamstrings!
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
How do you look in you one piece suit? I haven’t gotten mine yet. Can’t wait to walk around the yard in it.[/quote]
As I’ve said before - I look like bad gay porn in it or a black and white toothpaste tube. I’d post pictures but I don’t want people to get over-excited.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
ecogenx wrote:
How do you look in you one piece suit? I haven’t gotten mine yet. Can’t wait to walk around the yard in it.
As I’ve said before - I look like bad gay porn in it or a black and white toothpaste tube. I’d post pictures but I don’t want people to get over-excited.[/quote]
Careful - you might bring back the speedo theme…
[quote]skidmark wrote:
…
Was just checking out the APA American records for 45-49 Raw 198 class. They were just updated 8-28-08
45-49 RAW NT
Squat 355 Dave Ritter
Bench 325 Richard Cowser
Deadlift 450 David Ritter
Total 1120 David Ritter
My openers are 345/255/445/1045.
I really need to get my bench up for the next comp.
If I can hit 375/275/475 I can take the total at 1125. That would be a big IF, though. Anything can happen.[/quote]
You can take some of that home, for sure, one lift at a time, checking the total for number nine.
I’m going stir crazy not training.
Today’s dose of weirdness from the Darwin Awards Website:
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS, President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story:
On March 23,1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten story building intending to commit suicide. He left a note to that effect, indicating his despondency. As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window which killed him instantly.
Neither the shooter nor the descender was aware that a safety net had been installed just below at the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.
“Ordinarily,” Dr. Mills continued, “a person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide.”
That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands. The room on the ninth floor, whence the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window, striking Mr. Opus.
When one intends to kill subject A but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B. When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant. They both said they thought the shotgun was unloaded. Thed old man said it was his long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, the gun had been accidentally loaded.
The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple’s son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son’s financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.
Now comes the exquisite twist. Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother’s murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
ecogenx wrote:
How do you look in you one piece suit? I haven’t gotten mine yet. Can’t wait to walk around the yard in it.
As I’ve said before - I look like bad gay porn in it or a black and white toothpaste tube. I’d post pictures but I don’t want people to get over-excited.[/quote]
Go ahead and post a picture I promise I won’t laugh. Honest
[quote]skidmark wrote:
ecogenx wrote:
How do you look in you one piece suit? I haven’t gotten mine yet. Can’t wait to walk around the yard in it.
As I’ve said before - I look like bad gay porn in it or a black and white toothpaste tube. I’d post pictures but I don’t want people to get over-excited.[/quote]
I can’t wait to see how bad mine looks. At 6’8" I just hope it is long enough. I would hate to look like Borat…
Even my wife is a little apprehensive. She wants to see how I look before she will commit to coming to the meet.