Light day
Squat
135x5
135x5
135x5
Bench
115x5
115x5
115x5
Deadlift
155x5
155x5
155x5
Hey Gael, best of luck with the meet! I think it’s your first one right? I’m doing my first one next year, so I’ve been reading up on some stuff - great articles on first meets over at elitefts. Hope you go 9/9 and bust out a bunch of PR’s! Go you good thing
[quote]tomcoves wrote:
Hey Gael, best of luck with the meet! I think it’s your first one right? I’m doing my first one next year, so I’ve been reading up on some stuff - great articles on first meets over at elitefts. Hope you go 9/9 and bust out a bunch of PR’s! Go you good thing[/quote]
Thanks Tom, I appreciate the support. Fortunately I will be accompanied with some experienced lifters to help coach on my first meet. I’m pretty psyched.
Another light day today to prep for the contest, probably the last time I set foot in the gym as well before the meet –
Squat
135x5
135x5
135x5
Bench
115x5
115x5
115x5
Deadlift
155x5
155x5
155x5
Well, I had a 4/9 day, totaling 1052.
Squat
315 3 red lights, depth
315 2 red lights, depth was bad again, apparently
341 good
Bench
220 didn’t wait for rack command
226 good
242 missed lockout
Deadlift
440 good
475 15 second grinder, locked it out, but apparently the bar went down or something, so 2 red lights
485 good! 2 white lights, and I shat myself.
I didn’t make 1145, which I wanted, but atleast I didn’t bomb. I will make it next time round.
Yesterday, sortof light
Paused Bench
135x10
135x10
135x10
Machine Overhead Press
130x6 PR
Preacher EZ Curls
85x10 PR
Machine Overhead Press
130x10 PR
140x5 PR
150x2 PR
HS shrugs
315x12
315x12
315x12
Preacher EZ curls
90x10 PR
Couldn’t find my belt today, so I gave the leg press a shot:
I set the bottom pins to the lowest position possible, and paused on the bottom:
225x5
315x5
365x5
385x5
405x5
Dicked around
Pause Bench
145x10 felt funny, so I stopped
Machine overhead press (Seat Low)
160x1
170x1
180x1
190x1 (Stack)
Machine Bench
A bunch of triples, leading up to
Stackx3 PR, used legs to initiate
Bench (No pause)
185x5
185x5
185x4 missed 5th
185x5
185x4 stopped at 4
Machine overhead press
140x7 PR
Power Cleans
135x2
155x2
175x1
195x0 my best is 185…
Pullups
missed +100 lbs
10
5 fuck, I need to work on these again.
Tried the leg press, legs didn’t feel right, so I decided to come back tomorrow and try squats.
Preacher EZ Curls
90x5
90x5
90x5
Machine overhead press
150x7 PR
160x5 PR
Squat
135x5
185x5
235x5
Felt something go in my hamstrings. Bad pain, so I quit. Hopefully it’s not a serious injury.
Machine Overhead Press
160x7 PR
170x3 PR
I was wearing jeans today because I forgot my gym shorts. This is a big nono, so a staff guy comes up to me and says:
him: “You know you can’t wear jeans in here.”
me: “Oh these? These aren’t jeans.”
him: “Well what are they?”
me, out of my ass: “Polypropylene”
him:“They look alot like jeans”
me:“well they’re note”
him:“you sure?”
me:“absolutely, but thanks for asking”
He walked away.
Low HS Rows
225x5
225x5
225x5
225x5
225x8
Bench
185x5
185x5
185x5
185x5
185x3 
But I have been sick.
Squat:
135x10 extra reps to make sure I am well warmed up
185x5
225x5
275x5
315x5
HS Low Rows
135x10
225x5
275x5
275x3
275x3
Preacher EZ curls
90x5
100x2 PR
Machine Overhead Press
170x4 PR
180x4 PR
190(stack)x1, went for 2, pussied out halfway up
Rack Pulls (one plate height)
barx5
135x5
225x5
315x5
405x5
495x5
585x5
635x5 PR used straps…but only to protect my hands from tearing apart.
Bench
195x5
195x3
195x4
Suited Squats
135x5
185x5
225x5
275x5
315x5
365x5
385x4 PR