I have a video of my last meet PR (which was 440) and it was one of the ugliest grinders ever. I swayed off to the side and got way bent over and everyone at the meet afterwards complimented me on what a strong back I had… (cuz my squat was shit and I did a goodmorning; thanks I guess…)
I’m really excited that I smoked this rep so easily. I surprised myself. The form improvements have really payed off.[/quote]
[quote]BCpowder wrote:
Found your deadlift video
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Fuck… Now I wish you hadn’t lol. That was slower than Sammy’s 525 by a lot. Whatever. My form the other day was better than this. I’m gonna rip the shit out of 550. Fuck Sammy.
Too busy at work to take off so I had to drive 7 hours to Myrtle Beach the night before the meet and do a 2 hour weigh in the morning of.
Weighed in at 177.4lbs. I always get paranoid and go in too light.
Squats:
425 - good lift; easy opener
450 - good lift; had a bit of a sticking point and the judge actually said take it as I was shaking my head and saying “no don’t” lol. Luckily I got the lift before they took it and they gave it to me.
465 - no lift
So pretty mediocre on squats. Still a 10lb PR so that’s fine. I think the drive up and the 2 hour weigh in significantly hurt me here. Also the warmup room was pretty cold, and I didn’t bother putting on my knee sleeves. My knees felt cold, and I didn’t feel the power that I normally do in my legs. Good enough for the total I wanted, but I feel like I could have come in much better prepared and hit a better number.
Bench:
315 - no lift; said my butt came up. rofl, here we go again. I was fucking livid, and in my rage I went ahead and called for 335. A couple minutes later I was regretting my decision, but there was no going back. So I paced around in an angry trance for 20 minutes till my next attempt.
335 - good lift; easy
350 - no lift
Bench was pretty straight forward. My opening weight felt so easy that I didn’t respect the weight enough to get as tight as I should have, and when I don’t get fully tight, my butt tends to come off the bench. Second attempt I got serious, and it went fine. 350 just felt a bit too heavy to pause today.
Deadlift:
505 - good lift
530 - good lift
550 - no lift
Well I broke a 1300 total, which was my main goal. I totaled 1315. A 40lb total PR at 20lbs less bodyweight. Missing that third deadlift really bothered me though. It bothered me a lot more than I thought it would. I haven’t improved on deadlift in over a year and a half. It’s very disappointing.
I’m ready for a good long break from strict powerlifting training.
Incline Bench Machine:
3 work sets of 5-8
Decline Bench Machine:
3 work sets of 5-8
Flat Bench Machine:
3 work sets of 5-8
Dips:
3 sets of 10, slow eccentric, explosive concentric
Shoulder Machine:
3 work sets of 8-10
Calf Raises:
5 sets of 10
Decline Situps:
2 sets of 25 or so
These are all just estimates. I didn’t really pay much attention to weights or number of reps or sets on anything. I went completely by feel and focused on targeting the muscle I wanted to hit and lifting as aggressively as possible.
Was a good performance Chris. I agree with the taking off too lol, I need 2 weeks off after a competition strictly NO lifting. Shit can wear you down mentally, sometimes moreso than physically!
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Was a good performance Chris. I agree with the taking off too lol, I need 2 weeks off after a competition strictly NO lifting. Shit can wear you down mentally, sometimes moreso than physically![/quote]
[quote]ryanbCXG wrote:
Awesome performance and enjoy the change in training [/quote]
Thanks friendos! There will be a BIG shift in training for a while. I’ve done some bodybuilding before, but usually that just entailed doing bodybuilding workouts. This time around I am actually keeping track of my diet, and I would like to focus on performing each rep in such a way as to facilitate building the target muscle. Basically going to see if I can take my game up a notch with this style of training just like I did with my powerlifting training and all the form improvements.
