Incoming, “Flip phone.” “New phone, who dis?” or the ever classic, “I just broke my phone, send me money for a new one and I’ll put a video up.” haha little do they know that powerlifters derive their power from their power bellies…it’s science.
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I wouldn’t go that far, I’m going to work on getting leaner after my meet at the end of this month, but we are here talking about powerlifting and not admiring the male physique. If my main objective was to look lean and sexy then I would do that rather than trying to increase my lifts and peak for a meet. @gaelic is just a fucking clown and is getting called out on his bullshit so he’s looking for a way to piss me off, together with his boyfriend.
@chris_ottawa Man, are you over 30 years old and you can offended some post? Glaber’s post only amused me. LOL It is unquestionable that you are overweight. After all, many powerlifters are fat. Your childish anger surprises me. LOL You have to have a better understanding for the fun.
I don’t have problem with it. I clearly wrote in my log that I will shoot a video at higher weights on the bench press (making a video at roughly 130-140 kg is embarrassing to me).
I’m not angry, I just see you posting nonsense left and right. I don’t really want a bunch of stupid arguments in my training log, you can keep that in the PL forum (where you don’t really belong either).
I’m sorry that you are embarrassed of your lifts.
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Thursday, April 19 - Bench assistance day
Close grip bench
345x1,2 - Last week the second double with 340 was a grinder so I figured I would go for a double and a single unless the weight moved better than expected. However, something went wrong on the first set, I must have misgrooved the weight or something and got stuck just off my chest and my arms started shaking. I still finished the lift but I didn’t want to try another rep and fail so I racked it and just figured that I made a technical error. Rested a few minutes and did a solid double, hips on the bench too. It didn’t go the way I expected but it worked out in the end so I can’t complain.
close grip 2 board
375x2 - this was hard, basically a 2rm
Band pushdowns
super mini x10x2
Face pulls
Super mini x25x3
That’s all, just a quick upper body workout.
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I’m not a powerlifter, so no such anxiety exists. I am embarrassed by your anger that doesn’t correlate with your age. Where I belong, or I don’t belong, you don’t decide. There are a lot of weaker people on T-Nation than I do.
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I can verify that people of your limited personal experience who talk a big game saying what “should” work, and simply parroting info they’ve read from more credible sources, are (and should be) laughed at by people who know better.
Fortunately, we do allow members to showcase how stubborn, ignorant, naive, and inexperienced they are. And we’re glad to have more knowledgable members call out nonsense when they see it.
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And you don’t really know anything either, so your opinion is of no value to me. Nobody cares how strong you are, the problem is that you are going around acting like you know everything when you accomplished absolutely nothing and have nothing useful to add to the conversation. You posted a few interesting things a while back but it looks like you have run out of material.
Is that the best you can do? What’s with all the smiley faces?
No, you make no secret of the fact that you know absolutely nothing.
I do love when people forget to log out of their alternate accounts. Brightens my day just for a minute and gives me something to do.
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Are @gaelic and @Glaber the same person? @glaber seemed so much stupider, it’s hard to believe. He must be @gaelic’s retarded alter-ego.
Why are you answering your own quotation?
I don’t want to quarrel further, it doesn’t matter. I don’t need to doubt my knowledge. I apologize to all.
How come you keep erasing and re-posting that reply? You really aren’t too bright.
Friday, April 20 - Light squat/deadlift day
Squat - transformer bar in back squat position
300x2x5 sets, 45. sec rest. I dropped the jumps, trying to reduce unnecessary stresses on the body and I don’t think they did anything for me at all. Some people claim to have benefitted, I am not one.
Deadlift
485x1 - easy
525x1 - Good. Speed off the floor seems to have improved, I credit the deficit pulls. Slowed slightly at the knees, not really sure why but I’m not too concerned. This moved better than 530 a couple weeks ago, and faster off the floor than 520 the week before that. Based on this I should be able to pull 550 at the meet if things go well, maybe more but I don’t want to get too greedy and fail. 550 still sucks but it’s progress.
525:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ76p5A1uiA&feature=youtu.be
470x4 singles
Deficit deadlift
450x2x2
Chest supported row
265x8x2
So in retrospect, it looks like at least in a peaking phase I might be better off deadlifting heavy every second week. That doesn’t mean a light bullshit session on the other weeks but just not pushing it hard every single week. Last week I didn’t feel fully recovered from the squat session earlier in the week and of course I have my upper bd day on Thursday, I was determined to pull heavy regardless but it just didn’t work for me. Squatting heavy every week doesn’t seem like an issue and even if you don’t feel great the feeling of a heavy bar on your back wakes you up. With the deadlift there is no such thing happening, you have to find the motivation to get the bar moving. Also, submaximal work for the deadlift seems to have limited benefits. The times that I was seeing consistent progress I was doing multiple hard sets, my technique is more consistent right now but strength in the deadlift hasn’t improved much if at all. So maybe in a peaking phase it would be good to include submaximal work but for actually building my pull it seems like it might be the wrong approach. It has paid off for my squat, although doing heavier work (still not maximal, but 80-85% or so) in wraps has helped a lot. For the bench I’m not sure one way or another, I did make progress but unfortunately I developed a habit of lifting my ass off the bench ever so slightly and only realized a few weeks out. I need to adjust my bench setup for sure, other than that the focus for the next while will be on building muscle, losing fat, and getting stronger overall.
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Tuesday, April 24 - Squat and bench openers
Squat - 495 - fast and easy, could have done 4 reps. Good depth too, the new way I’m wrapping my knees makes it easier to hit depth and seems to give the same rebound.
Bench - 345 - Same. Hips stayed on the bench too. It seems like setting my legs for bench actually feels better after squatting, maybe I should do a little hip warmup on bench days.
That’s it. Thursday I will work up to 80% of planned 3rd attempts on squat and bench, 70% on deadlift then nothing more than stretching and mobility stuff until the meet on Sunday.
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OK, so today was my meet. Good news - small deadlift PR, 247.5kg/545lbs., 7.5kg over my meet PR and 5lbs. over my training PR from last year. I should have gone heavier, felt like another 15-20lbs. would have gone up.
Bad news - everything else was shit. Technically bombed out on squats (although they still let me finish the meet), only got one weak ass bench attempt in. My head was all fucked up after the first two squats, everything felt off, I was really pissed off but that seemed to help my deadlift. I had high hopes for my squat and it didn’t happen, thought I could manage a half-decent bench and didn’t (although my ass stayed on the damn bench), but oddly my deadlift was alright and that was the lift I was the most disappointed with. I don’t feel like doing a real write-up at the moment, I told myself I wasn’t even going to post anything for at least a few days but here I am.
A backwards day, that which was supposed to go well didn’t and that which I had low expectations for went much better than expected. What the fuck!!!
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Having a shitty meet happens. Figure out what went wrong and and find a way to fix it and grow from there.
I’m sitting here drinking overproof rum, my wife and one of my kids are sleeping and my other kid is watching TV. I, however, am pissed off. Shit did not go my way today. I had plans for a big squat PR, more than anything else. I wanted to bench 400+ but my ass didn’t want to stay on the fucking bench in training so I lowered my expectations. My deadlift made no gains at all, or at least I wasn’t able to perform adequately in training because I was slightly behind what I did last year and I was pulling on a deadlift bar - stiff (or extra stiff) bar last year.
So, I missed my first squat attempt on depth. The center judge told me I was about two inches above parallel. I heard that WPC was somewhat loose on squat depth (watch YouTube videos) but not so in Canada. This was 495 by the way, something I should be able to get for 3-4 reps. Coming into the meet I wasn’t concerned about depth, at least not on my opener, because I videoed my heavy sets and it looked to me like most of them would pass in the IPF, which is known for being excessively strict and in the IPF-affiliated meets I have done I have only gotten ONE FUCKING RED LIGHT FOR SQUAT DEPTH. Ever.
So I said to myself “I’m going to bury this fucking lift” and did re-took my first attempt. It seemed like I shifted back onto my heels or something, about 3/4 of the way up I took a step back. So red lights of course. Same weight on third attempt, side judge told me I was right at 90 degrees and another inch would have been good. After the second attempt I was mentally fucked up, I must say, and the third attempt was like a third kick in the balls on the way to see your girlfriend - are you sure you can perform???
I have to say though, everything felt light as hell. I did walkouts with 615 in the last few weeks and down sets with 485, 495 was a “conservative” opener. Unfortunately, conservatives always fuck you over (trying not to get political here, liberals are commies too) and it just didn’t work out for me.
The head judge and the gym owner (he was the MC and acting in some sort of official capacity) told me that despite the fact that I had bombed out on squats, out of respect they would still allow me to finish the meet. Not 100% sure, but I think my push-pull total still registered as ZERO. So I warmed up for bench, the weights didn’t feel too heavy or anything but I just didn’t feel right. We had to submit out openers about a month out and I gave some low numbers, 341lbs for bench and I was thinking I would move it up to about 350. Seeing as my squat was shit, I stuck with the original opener. I don’t know what happened, but I touched way too low on my first attempt - like 3-4 inches below where I normally do, I was out of my groove, I pushed it up and back but it came down maybe a inch or two and I got called for downwards movement. I knew what had happened before I finished the lift. I would have to check my training logs but I think I benched 340 for 4 reps a couple months back, I did 345x3 last year and opened with 345 at my last meet. It was a safe opener.
So I got mad and killed the fucking lift on my 2nd attempt. Shit was light and easy and I came to set PRs so I went with 369lbs (whatever the kg equivalent is) which would still be bullshit based on my training but 2.5kg over last year’s meet. Failed. Honestly, I just felt off. Like the bar felt shaky, I was uncoordinated, and worst of all my confidence was in the toilet.
So I was mad, really fucking mad. I wanted to kill somebody, but nobody did me any wrong except that piece of shit bar they put the weights on. I was going to kill the bar, or die trying.
My deadlift opener was originally set at 227.5kg, which was bullshit, but I was somewhere in the toilet or maybe further down the sewage system so even that looked like a big goal. I warmed up as planned, but taking lots of time between sets because the flights had close to 20 guys in them and moved like they were crossing the atlantic. 135-225-315-375-415-455, then the last warm up on the platform. I’m pretty sure that was the lightest I ever opened with on deadlifts since I started competing. 237.5 on the next attempt, killed it. I asked for another 10kg, which at the time I didn’t even realize was a PR attempt.
My brain was operating at about 45% capacity so I couldn’t figure out the exact number of LBS but I knew it was more than I had deadlifted before. Some novice lifter from the first flight was asking me for advice so I spent the next 10-15 minutes talking to him rather than sitting there watching the other guys lift (they had benches set up for the current flight right in front of the platform, I don’t find that to be helpful to be honest). 547.5 went up easy, I was mad that I didn’t take a bigger jump because for real another 15-20 (or maybe more) would have gone up. All the judge wanted to shake my hand after the lift, the mindstate that I was in I wanted to punch somebody. For real, I don’t get in fights and start shit or anything but I was just full of anger. I trained so hard and put so much time and effort into this shit and got nowhere. I was screaming and shit, not normal at all (for me). Who the fuck do I blame?
On top of that I got drug tested, what a joke. I guess I was one of the strongest guys in the drug-tested division (pro AKA steroids was the day before) so I had to piss in a cup in front of some guy, kind of weird. I think I drank to much Gatorade and monster, after squats I was pissing like every 20 in. so maybe they thought I was on coke or something. This actually happened to me (pissing nonstop) at a meet about 2 years ago, I think it has to do with nerves, caffeine (today I had 400mg +3 energy drinks and still felt tired), and coldness - this gym has garage-type door that was about half open and outside was around 10c. At home I keep the heat at 25+
Anyway, I was telling people that I was done with knee wraps and they will never see me in them again. Right now I feel like maybe I should do another meet in wraps just to prove to myself that I can. I don’t know, maybe I’m bein stupid. Right now the goal is less fat and more muscle. It was a bad day for me, but it was bound to happen one day. At least I didn’t of out of town and pay for a hotel and all that.
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F*** Chris sorry to hear that. You’ve worked so f****** hard on this.
I have no experience with meets whatsoever so bare with me.
I’m nowhere near you, but more than once I’ve done a program and coming to the end and going in to make that final attempt that promised me great results ending up failing miserably, and being pissed at myself afterwards. Then a couple of weeks or months later it just comes.
Kind of like your DL. A big PR. I would say on a shitty day that is a big PR. Coming out of nowhere.
Hope you’ll get over it soon, and I’ll be cheering for the next meet.
If you have a sandbag,it’s time to punch the sucker.