[quote]mr popular wrote:
Bad quality phone pic update.
Competed in a powerlifting competition at 194lbs (took third place overall), now I’m back up around 205lbs.
Going to keep bulking until my wife gives birth in a few months.[/quote]
what numbers did you put up??
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sweet, good work
I had never trained for powerlifting before, so nothing worth writing home about obviously. lol
My butt kept rising off the bench so I never cleared higher than 245. I don’t know how you guys do the whole paused benching thing, it just killed me! There were guys competing that got bumped out of the whole competition because they couldn’t even pause press their first attempt.
Other than that I got a 425 deadlift and a 385 squat.
It was a fun experience and I will definitely be entering future competitions once I get my shit together and actually have decent numbers.[/quote]
[quote]mr popular wrote:
Bad quality phone pic update.
Competed in a powerlifting competition at 194lbs (took third place overall), now I’m back up around 205lbs.
Going to keep bulking until my wife gives birth in a few months.[/quote]
what numbers did you put up??
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I had never trained for powerlifting before, so nothing worth writing home about obviously. lol
My butt kept rising off the bench so I never cleared higher than 245. I don’t know how you guys do the whole paused benching thing, it just killed me! There were guys competing that got bumped out of the whole competition because they couldn’t even pause press their first attempt.
Other than that I got a 425 deadlift and a 385 squat.
It was a fun experience and I will definitely be entering future competitions once I get my shit together and actually have decent numbers.[/quote]
was that comp. sanctioned by a federation??
as for the whole butt thing, i can’t remember where i wrote about that recently but the butt rising is a result of pushing through the soles of your feet. when benching powerlifting style to maintain an arch you actually do more of a leg curl and drive the heels into the floor. this will firmly plant your ass on the bench and get your hips up, get better leg drive and maintain your arch.
those are respectable numbers. keep up the good work.
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Thanks, I will try putting that into practice.
And no it wasn’t a federation competition, there aren’t any federations anywhere near the town that I live in, just a local thing that my gym’s owner decided to put on. Fortunately they had enough knowledge to enforce a paused bench, parallel squat, and deadlift lockout (a few guys wound up with zilch on the squat because they had just never gone to parallel before).