[quote]Stronghold wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
I prob missed it, pardon the retarded question, when is your meet?[/quote]
Hopefully sometime after she learns to stay tight when she benches :)[/quote]
Meet is July 23.
This is my heavy week, next week I take openers, then I have a deload week before the meet. Its getting close and I haven’t sent any of my stuff in yet. Need to get on that.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
I prob missed it, pardon the retarded question, when is your meet?[/quote]
Hopefully sometime after she learns to stay tight when she benches :)[/quote]
Are there naturally more summer meets than other times of the year? Everyone’s competing these last/next couple of months, and it rocks. Good luck these next couple of weeks, BG, and smash some PRs at your meet.
Getting excited for your meet! (always excited for your ass. lol)
DF- lol
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
Are there naturally more summer meets than other times of the year? Everyone’s competing these last/next couple of months, and it rocks. Good luck these next couple of weeks, BG, and smash some PRs at your meet.[/quote]
I never thought about there being more summer meets, but it always seems like everyone is doing them around the same time. Maybe that’s why. What I do know is that the feds that I’d prefer to compete in don’t have much around here. Powerlifting outside of Columbus really blows.
I know nothing about this meet director, who will be judging, the spotters, or the other lifters so I’m a little nervous about how things will go. Stronghold’s last meet was so poorly run that I swore I’d go up north to compete IPA or SPF but that’s fucking expensive. People can bitch all they want about those feds, but those guys up there know how to run a meet.
Frenchie- Thanks! Speaking of asses…yours is looking seck-say and those amazon legs are coming in quite nicely.
Just wanted to let you know that the video on your first post almost made me kill myself. Nice lifts and good luck at the meet.
Hey, didn’t see your log for a minute…
you like ninja!
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
The mental aspect of lifting is huge and I think you can definitely mindfuck yourself out of succeeding. There are a couple of stories about that that come to mind. Maybe I’ll post some up for everyone’s reading pleasure.[/quote]
Yes. Plus, there are days when gravity is much more than other days.
How long are your wraps? Just curious. I loathe wrapping. I’d prefer just to train suit bottoms and leave wraps off until the last minute. I rarely train just wraps and belt.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Just wanted to let you know that the video on your first post almost made me kill myself. Nice lifts and good luck at the meet.[/quote]
Success! Thankyouverymuch, sir!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
Hey, didn’t see your log for a minute…
you like ninja![/quote]
I’ve been wearing my Vibrams a lot lately. They make me stealthy and ninja like.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Yes. Plus, there are days when gravity is much more than other days.
How long are your wraps? Just curious. I loathe wrapping. I’d prefer just to train suit bottoms and leave wraps off until the last minute. I rarely train just wraps and belt. [/quote]
If someone could turn off gravity today that would be great. This is the heaviest squat of the training cycle.
Wraps are plain old Inzer 2 meter Z-wraps. If I were to squat in one piece of gear it would definitely be briefs. Not knee wraps. Too bad there isn’t a fed with a “briefs only” division. I never messed with knee wraps much equipped and prefer my sleeves when I’m raw.
So, our plan was to make the hour and a half long trek to train at a friend’s garage gym today. Found out this morning that their crew was training earlier than usual because a couple of them have things going on and they’ll likely be nearly done by the time we could get out there.
We’re still welcome but I only wanted to make the drive out there to train with Friend. Not his crew that I barely know. There’s a good chance that Friend will be gone by the time we make it out and his one training partner that we don’t really get along with will still be there. No thanks.
Now I’m kinda pissed. I’ve actually been in a mood for about three days straight now and this isn’t really helping my mood. The last thing I need is to train with fatty-whack-job and not anyone who would actually be helpful.
I was really looking forward to training with Friend and the food fest that would follow. FAWK! I miss training in Columbus.
I suggest pepper spray
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
The last thing I need is to train with fatty-whack-job and not anyone who would actually be helpful.
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DF- lulz!
We went to the PL gym and still got Chipotle so all is good.
squat
55x8x3
105x5
145x5
185x2
205x1
*add wraps
225x1
235x1
super set
GHR- 8x3
hanging leg raise- 10x3
kb twist
12x12x3
I accidentally hit the weight I needed to last week. We debated redoing it, going with a heavier bar weight, or taking a first attempt weight. I wasn’t all that into squatting today and decided to go with a single or two with opener weight.
I’m not feeling very good about my squats. I should, but I don’t. meh.
I also engaged in a little poor woman’s retail therapy. I tried on a few ridiculous dresses at Bebe. I have no need to buy them because, really, where would I wear something like that? So the temptation to buy the stuff was pretty low.
That was probably the most comfortable dress I’ve ever tried on though. It was like the slutty dress version of yoga pants.
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
really, where would I wear shit like that? [/quote]
You wouldn’t make it out of the house >:)
you know you want to go back and buy it.
why you meh about your squats?
SH, does this mean I can have the dress?
MIM, I’m just worried about stupid things like not hitting depth, not being strong enough to hit my opener, and the knee wraps being all wrong. Just a nice dose of early pre-meet jitters, I guess. All I really have to do is hit my opener and then have some fun and take a few PR weights for a ride. I haven’t quite gotten that in my head yet.
I spent about 30 minutes doing lower body mobility stuff today. I set up my rounds timer on my ipod so that I could try to keep track of time. Worked pretty well.
recumbent bike- 15 min
I am totally beat today. I need like 5 naps.
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
SH, does this mean I can have the dress?
MIM, I’m just worried about stupid things like not hitting depth, not being strong enough to hit my opener, and the knee wraps being all wrong. Just a nice dose of early pre-meet jitters, I guess. All I really have to do is hit my opener and then have some fun and take a few PR weights for a ride. I haven’t quite gotten that in my head yet.
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The dress is awesome. I love the colour. I love beautiful clothes but rarely buy them because where would I wear them.
How many meets have you done now? Worlds this fall will be 14 or 15 for me and I still get stressey, over think everything and ride the toilet the morning of a meet. That’s part of my love for it 
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
SH, does this mean I can have the dress?
MIM, I’m just worried about stupid things like not hitting depth, not being strong enough to hit my opener, and the knee wraps being all wrong. Just a nice dose of early pre-meet jitters, I guess. All I really have to do is hit my opener and then have some fun and take a few PR weights for a ride. I haven’t quite gotten that in my head yet.
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The dress is awesome. I love the colour. I love beautiful clothes but rarely buy them because where would I wear them.
How many meets have you done now? Worlds this fall will be 14 or 15 for me and I still get stressey, over think everything and ride the toilet the morning of a meet. That’s part of my love for it :)[/quote]
I haven’t done many meets. Last one I did was in spring of 2009. The year or so following that, I was pretty much on my own. No PL gym, no training partners, no local meets. It was only recently that I decided that 1. I cared to compete again and 2. was healthy enough to try to train for a meet.
This meet doesn’t mean much in the sense that I have someone to beat (I’m not aware of any other women competing), a record to break, or an elite total on the line but its become something huge in my own head. I’ve been training for months and I’m paying to compete. At the end of the day, I don’t want to have nothing to show for all the time and effort I (and SH) put in. Its not like if this one goes badly, I can just do another in a few weeks…But it’s not going to go badly so I have nothing to be concerned about…
I don’t start to calm down on meet day until after I get my first squat in. I’m starting to think that I’m way too high strung for competing.
deadlift
135x5x2
185x5
*add belt
225x1
back xt
45x10x3
trx fat man row bw x8x5
v crunch 10x5
I was in the deadlift killzone at the beginning of my workout. 225 will be my opener.
Every meet I’ve done has been equally important to me regardless of whether it’s an open meet or nationals. I always have something to prove. Like you I don’t start to chill until the first squat is in.
At least competing raw you won’t have to worry about the timing of getting your gear together, your straps up etc.