Cheatin' The Reaper One Day At A Time

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Body weight at 223.

Bench to paused reps after warm-up

1x1 225
1x1 245

2 board
1x1 275

Will open at 245, then 275 and final attempt should be 300.

Will do some heavy tricep work on Saturday. No bench again until the meet.

Had chiro appt w/chiro friend after bench session. Got adjustment and feel a lot better. He snapped my back and it sounded like a shotgun blast (to me). He twisted my neck and also got a loud pop. Haven’t been to a chiro prior.

Will do deadlift opener on Thursday. Still try to schedule massage for Friday. Also have chiro follow-up on Friday.

Things are coming together nicely.

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Squats looked great.

Can you do an early weigh in?

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[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Squats looked great.

Can you do an early weigh in?[/quote]

Thanks Joe. Yep, 24hr. Plan on making weight on Friday morning, Friday afternoon at the worst. Then eating, sleeping, streching until we handle another guy from our gym in the Bench Only event on Friday night. He’s going for a 600 raw bench @ 275 class. He’s done 580 with us. He hasn’t had 600 raw bench since weighing 290# (couple years ago). He’s down to @ 265 now. He hates losing weight. It makes him real grumpy :slight_smile:

One of my other training partners is doing a RAW full meet. He’s a 242. He’s going for 600sq, 400b, 600dl. His bench is my only concern with him. I think he’ll go way past a 600sq. A 600dl is attainable.

Really looking forward to this.

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looking good over here

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Deadlift - work up to opener. Weight 222. This process has been fun. Hadn’t done anything like this since @ '83. We’re already thinking about the next one :slight_smile:

warm-up, some x some

315x1
335x1
350x1

Shut down DL until meet on 7/16. Will open @ 350. Back felt good but didn’t want to go ape-shit before get chiro follow-up chiro. Have massage this afternoon.

Will go back to gym on Saturday. Will do heavier tricep work, light OH work, light front squats and maybe light GMs.

Then done until meet.

Will knoock out meet check list this weekend & next week. Being anal retentive does have some occasional benefits.

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Ready for meet on 7/16. Weight at 219.

Soreness finally gone from deep tissue massage on 7/7. Had massage this morning at 6am. She did surface stuff on quads. Legs feel great. Feel refreshed and strong.

Get back cracked on Thursday. Then off to meet. Weigh in on Friday morning @ 9am.

Talked with training partners a little on Saturday. May dial the openers back a little to make sure of getting on board.

Openers looking like Sq- 340 (goal 400), Bench- 240 (goal 300), DL 340 (goal 400).

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[quote]hawkcapt1912 wrote:
Ready for meet on 7/16. Weight at 219.

Soreness finally gone from deep tissue massage on 7/7. Had massage this morning at 6am. She did surface stuff on quads. Legs feel great. Feel refreshed and strong.

Get back cracked on Thursday. Then off to meet. Weigh in on Friday morning @ 9am.

Talked with training partners a little on Saturday. May dial the openers back a little to make sure of getting on board.

Openers looking like Sq- 340 (goal 400), Bench- 240 (goal 300), DL 340 (goal 400).
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Looking forward to reading your results! Def agree with keeping the openers on the light side to be sure you get (and stay) on the board

watch the carbs between now and the meet if you want to stay under 220 and in the 100kg class, I had Sushi just before my last meet and hit 99.98kg without meaning to …

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Meet over. Had fun. Weighed in on Friday @ 214.9 (in street clothes).

Sore as hell today. Out this week. Massage on Tuesday, Golf tournament on Wednesday, Chiro on Thursday.

Went 8 for 9 and totaled 1001 or 1002.

Back openers down since gym openers. Factored in ass-pucker and nerves.

Squat
1x1 335
1x1 365
1x1 385

Backs of knees are bruised. Handler wrapped tighter than normal. Cranked up wrap on my 3rd attempt to the point that I cramped up in my quad. Had to re-wrap a little looser. Will hit 400+ at next meet.

Bench
1x1 230
1x1 253
0x0 270

Didn’t eat anything other than BCAA drink and protin shakes. Felt weak. Mild panic started to set in as I feeling so friggin weak. Had burger from concession stand. (We had jerky, peanut butter, etc in coolers but I must’ve overlooked that bit of info). Need to work on weak bench.

Backed DL opener down since feeling like shiiite. Food kicked in and felt better
1x1 308 (wanted to post a total)
1x1 340something
1x1 363 needed 362 for 1000. I left the decimals out since it’s kilos and I failed that in school. I felt as comfortable pulling as I can remember. Weight felt like I had 400-425 in me but I was focusing on the first goal of 1000. Will pull 400+ at the next meet.

It was a learning experience. I learned that I need to eat between lifts and not just liquids.
Also realized that no one good in a singlet, except for this little brunette from Team Anvil.

Looking at the next meet in November. Same place. Some other guys from our crew (that didn’t lift in DBQ) are going to lift in the UPA meet @ Minnesota in September. I think that’s Pete’s neighborhood. I’ll go up and be a handler/gofor.

I ended up getting 1st place in the 45-49, raw, tested division (I may have been the only one). Got a plaque that’s already been dropped off in our traing room.

Other lifters from our crew:
275# bench only guy (open/raw) 530 best lift. Won best lifter. He got a plaque, a huge, bitchin’ shield, supps from T-Nation, and a gift certificate from At-Large Nutrition.

242#, open/raw. 611 Squat, bench bomb. 611 Squat would have been a record but I don’t think it’ll count since he didn’t total.

There were some big name lifters either lifting or in attendance. The crew from Franz @ Chicago came over. The Lillibridge’s are freaks. The Frey bros both lifted. Saw a lifter from Mason City, IA (Jake Prazak) take Rob Luyando’s 242 bench record (904). He opened with a 909 (3 whites), second attempt GOOD at 920. He missed his third attempt. Rob was there on Saturday at the full power.

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That’s a great meet result! congrats!

I seem to recall that this was your first meet? if so - even bigger congrats! must be nice doing a meet with the crew you train with

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Feeling beat up a little today. Weight back up to @ 225-230. Been eating like shit and liking it.

Here’s the results from the meet. I’m the 48yr old in the full power. It appears that I was the oldest lifter. Fuggin whippersnappers.

I’ll post a link to the video once it’s available.

Looking forward to massage tomorrow.

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Had lunch hour massage. Hurt like hell. She said I had knots on my hips. Trust me, she dug them out. Reminds me of Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors.

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great work man!!!

Cool Jake got that record, he’s been working on that one. Sure Rob will be back.

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Just saw that you are coming up for the UPA meet up here. I will probably just be there to help, but plan to be there…

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Squat - active deload

3x5 185
1x3 225

3x15 good girl/bad girl machine

3x60’ prowler, no weight, hi handle up, low handle back

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Training partner brought box of supps that he won for best lifter in bench only. Bunch of stuff from T-Nation (Biotest). He’s alreadyt sponsored by a supp shop.

Now have (1/ea) Grow whey, Surge recovery, Ananconda, MAG-10 (& flavorings), Superfood, Mineral Support, FA3, HOT-ROX extreme, GPC, and (12) FINiBARs. This should last me @ 2 months.
It means a lot to me. I guess I’ll have to pay more attention when side spotting his 500+ benching.

We have a team meeting tomorrow after OH pressing. Meeting while eating. We’re going to decide on a team name and the bylaws for being part of the crew. I’m up for doing a meet a year. Will also propose some sort of nominal monthly dues for each ($5-$10). This will allow us to purchase things that we need after being voted upon.

I’ll submit something stupid like “Team Evolution”. The logo could be the ape evolving to walking upright, turning into man, then de-evolving onto a Bench (w/bar), then into DL position w/bar and finally into squat position (w/bar on back). Or Pete’s avatar.

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OH deload

3x5

We voted on team name. We are now 22nd St Barbell. It’s now spray painted on the inside of the dock door.

We then cleaned & mopped training room. Lots of accumulated, worthless shit ended up in the dumpster.

Items we want to acquire:
DL bar jack
Power rack monolift attachment
2-4 100# plates.

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DL deload

3x5

Deficit
4x3

Had team meeting again tonite. Team now approaching 10-12 people. Anticipate growth with the addition of a monolift.

I found a monolift for sale online. We made an offer and bought the damn thing. We leave Des Moines, IA for Buffalo, NY on Friday night. It’s a mere 13 hour straight shot (@950 miles) on I-80 & I-90 to Buffalo. We’ll drive straight thru, load it, and drive straight back. The plan is to put it up on Sunday afternoon.

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Nice work at the meet- awesome job.

and good score on the mono lift-

that is a long ass drive good thing its summer and not winter.

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bench deload (last night)

3x5
1x10

1x10 BW dips

Happy with the dips as they were painful on my shoulder since injury 3 yrs ago.

Not driving to Buffalo, NY. We wired the money to the seller. We decided it was worth an extra $200 to have someone else do the heavy lifting. Mono to be picked up 8/2 and heading I-80 west to DSM, IA. We anticipate it on Friday or Saturday. We’ll have a monolift putting together bash. Our biggest fear is the brotards that may their way back to our haven. We can’t put a lock on the door as it’s apparently a fire code violation. I guess we’ll deal with that when it happens, and it will happen. Most of the jackholes will have no idea what the new contraption is. They may leave it alone if they can’t curl in it.

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Squat

1x3 225
1x3 255
1x3 +2 285

SSB
5x10

SSB GM
4x6

The room was being painted while we squatted. We’d pitch in between sets. Final coat will go on tomorrow after OH Press. We’re going to reaarange the furniture to make room for the new toy.