Thanks for the well wishes everyone. They worked. Not only got my 1320 lbs total, I also got best male lifter with a 391 Glossbrenner score. Even with a small meet, I’m really happy about that as there were 10 or 11 guys so it kind of means something.
The meet was FAST: squats started at 11 am, deads were done by one forty five pm. Pretty much had at most 30 minutes between last squat and first bench/last bench and first DL. Effectively no time to rest. It’s those times I’m glad I train for two hours plus. Plazma was a huge help too. Had nothing else apart from a pb&j roll between bench attempts.
Squats I went three for three, 440/473/500. It made a huge positive difference having my knees wrapped for me. Squats felt slow, but to be honest from 352 lbs to 473 lbs all felt about the same, so I’m not complaining. The hard part is now definitely going down in wraps, less so coming up. I was lucky to not get red lighted for my first attempt as I started moving before the squat command.
Bench went well too, three for three again. Warm-ups were a bit rushed and felt sluggish, but my first attempt felt amazing. Second attempt I very slightly misgrooved, but got it easily enough. Third attempt was work, and I got one red light for bar dip on the right.
Warming up for DL I felt fast AF, faster than normal. Was nervous about hook grip. First attempt came forward a bit, but moved well enough. Second seemed better, third was work. Three for three again.
Headed to the curry festival after. Ate three Thai taco kind of things which were fucking amazing, then some Indian sweets which were diabetes in sugar syrup and got some Philippino rice and stews for dinner. I’ll be over my 2400 cal/day, but not by as much as yesterday and with better quality. I don’t think that’ll derail my progress too badly.
Tomorrow back to normal with the jump to 2500 cal/day, using a tablespoon of peanut butter at bedtime.