Congratulations on qualifying and the record breaking!
[quote]g’em wrote:
Just thought I’d give you guys an update about how the meet went. It was the IDFPA (Irish branch of the WDFPF) Nationals, I was lifting unequipped @78kg 171lb).
Thanks again to everyone for all the advice, I was able to put it in practice over the last few weeks and while my DL is still nowhere near perfect it’s certainly coming together.
The one thing that really helped was keeping my shoulders back which in turn helped keep my ass down and my pulls have been a lot smoother as a result.
Of course, I’m sure that when I look at the videos of the meet I’ll cringe at some of my form issues, but hey, at the end of the day in a competition you just gotta get the bar up!!
Lift 1: 120kg (264lb)
Lift 2: 140kg (308lb) New European Record
Lift 3: 150kg (330lb) New ER + PB
After breaking the ER I got a fourth attempt:
Lift 4: 158kg (348lb) New World Record
I’m really, really delighted with my pulls, all but the last went up pretty easy and the last one was a bit of a grinder but the crowd + adrenaline came to my rescue!!
I also got a new WR for squats (130kg/ 286lb), National Record for bench (62.5kg/ 138lb) and a ER for total (342.5kg/ 754lb) so I qualified for the Worlds in November. I couldn’t have asked for a better day and it was quite an experience as a first-time competitor!! Roll on the Worlds!![/quote]
Nice friggin’ job! Two world records, a national record and a couple of European records!
Welcome to PL’ing. Guess your gonna stick around for a while now huh? I thought you might enjoy it!
All I can say is Well Done!
That is an awesome result! Well done. Great stamina to finish so strong.
Great job. It must have been from all the great coaching you recieved on this forum. Wait till they all send you an invoice.
TNT