I injured my back last year a week after a meet while squatting. It has been a long process, but I’m finally back to training heavy. The only problem is I have never really gotten my squat back. Deadlift and bench feel fine, but I never feel “locked in” when I squat anymore.
So my question is; is it bad manners to mail in a particular lift at a meet? I want to do another meet soon, but I was considering just squatting 135, and concentrating on the bench and deadlift. Is that a dick move?
Do a push/pull meet or bench only.
Just sign up for a push pull like he said. It’s usually cheaper anyway. But to also directly answer your question, no, it is not at all bad manners to take a token lift. Everyone understands, and most everyone has been there at some point.
If you saw someone do that in a meet, would you think they are a dick?
Definitely not a dick move. I’ve seen it done a ton of times at meets, and usually it is just an injury and the guy doesn’t want to take the chance on lifting heavy on meet day. Injuries happen, everyone will understand
What’s the point of going into a full power meet and planning on doing a token squat, though? This would make a lot more sense if push/pull wasn’t a thing.
Injury one week out, can’t squat, you can still bench and deadlift and there is no pushpull option. Don’t want to bail on the whole meet just because you can’t squat. Makes perfect sense to me to cut the squat and just basically do a pushpull within your meet
[quote]KD10powerlifting wrote:
Definitely not a dick move. I’ve seen it done a ton of times at meets, and usually it is just an injury and the guy doesn’t want to take the chance on lifting heavy on meet day. Injuries happen, everyone will understand[/quote]
That’s what a figured, but wanted to see what you guys thought.
There are only a few meets around here. Albany Strength does a few every year and actually had a push/pull recently that I wasn’t ready for in August. I’ll just sign up for a full meet and do what I can. Thanks guys.
[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
What’s the point of going into a full power meet and planning on doing a token squat, though? This would make a lot more sense if push/pull wasn’t a thing.[/quote]
I’m getting the gist that evidently it’s much less of a thing in outside the south. Hell here I don’t even know if they have meets anymore where you can’t enter as either push/pull or bench only lol.
Haha yeah most likely… I know in Canada bench only is an option most of the time, but usually push pull meets are completely separate events
I feel like there would be a market for push/push for guys who can’t deadlift lol.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
What’s the point of going into a full power meet and planning on doing a token squat, though? This would make a lot more sense if push/pull wasn’t a thing.[/quote]
I’m getting the gist that evidently it’s much less of a thing in outside the south. Hell here I don’t even know if they have meets anymore where you can’t enter as either push/pull or bench only lol.[/quote]
Chris, I think we’re spoiled with all the divisions and records we can set around here… squat only, bench only, deadlift only, push/pull, full power, sometimes strict curl and deadlift/curl divisions; raw, single or multi-ply; police, fire, military, open, sub jr., junior, open, sub-master, 15 different masters divisions; the Crossfit division and 259 weight class is just icing on the cake.
[quote]BCpowder wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
What’s the point of going into a full power meet and planning on doing a token squat, though? This would make a lot more sense if push/pull wasn’t a thing.[/quote]
I’m getting the gist that evidently it’s much less of a thing in outside the south. Hell here I don’t even know if they have meets anymore where you can’t enter as either push/pull or bench only lol.[/quote]
Chris, I think we’re spoiled with all the divisions and records we can set around here… squat only, bench only, deadlift only, push/pull, full power, sometimes strict curl and deadlift/curl divisions; raw, single or multi-ply; police, fire, military, open, sub jr., junior, open, sub-master, 15 different masters divisions; the Crossfit division and 259 weight class is just icing on the cake. [/quote]
I can’t believe you actually did it lol. I forgot how different his expression was from everyone else. And he was even off to the side, like not standing as close together as everyone else.