[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Ruffsketch wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Good luck, MM! Make the BOI proud, we know you will[/quote]
thank you!!! i’ll do my best.
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Best of luck Meat ![/quote]
thanks my old friend. nice avatar:)[/quote]
I made you a new avatar Meat! Meat, the graphic novel…
[quote]Ruffsketch wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Ruffsketch wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Good luck, MM! Make the BOI proud, we know you will[/quote]
thank you!!! i’ll do my best.
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Best of luck Meat ![/quote]
thanks my old friend. nice avatar:)[/quote]
I made you a new avatar Meat! Meat, the graphic novel…[/quote]
Dude…that is spectacular
[quote]Ruffsketch wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Ruffsketch wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Good luck, MM! Make the BOI proud, we know you will[/quote]
thank you!!! i’ll do my best.
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Best of luck Meat ![/quote]
thanks my old friend. nice avatar:)[/quote]
I made you a new avatar Meat! Meat, the graphic novel…[/quote]
The meat sac, thats great!
Good luck meat, hope you post a good deadlift number pulling conventional, sumo is for girls 
Your thread paints the powerlifting community in a very good light, makesme wonder if the scene in Australia is as supportive. I will have to look into it, I would love to do a comp to post a total and see how I like it, but my lifts are really nothing to boast about.
[quote]Doyle wrote:
[quote]Ruffsketch wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Ruffsketch wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Good luck, MM! Make the BOI proud, we know you will[/quote]
thank you!!! i’ll do my best.
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Best of luck Meat ![/quote]
thanks my old friend. nice avatar:)[/quote]
I made you a new avatar Meat! Meat, the graphic novel…[/quote]
The meat sac, thats great!
Good luck meat, hope you post a good deadlift number pulling conventional, sumo is for girls
Your thread paints the powerlifting community in a very good light, makesme wonder if the scene in Australia is as supportive. I will have to look into it, I would love to do a comp to post a total and see how I like it, but my lifts are really nothing to boast about.[/quote]
my buddy is a very creative guy…always has been.
yeah…me too. i have another meet in a couple months and really hope to hit 700.
i compete in the SPF and every meet i’ve been to has been good and all the people are very supportive. your lifts are YOUR lifts. don’t go comparing yourself to anyone and don’t let people compare you to others. all you can hope for is to compete and try and get a little better each time. that’s the essence of competition to me. the real competition is always with yourself. go do it, set some baseline numbers and strive to beat them.
good luck and thanks for the kind words.
so… just got back from the meet and it was a great meet all around for all of us. our new guy, Bill did awesome. you would never have guessed it was his first meet. he didn’t make any mistakes that you expect out of a newbie. I’m very proud of him. As for jowee, my other training partner… he was a machine on bench. he opened with a PR of 315. went up a little slow but every attempt after that went up faster than the last. it was crazy. He also did awesome on the dead. Nailed his opener and then went on to hit his second attempt at 620. 635 was just out of his range for this meet but awesome none the less.
As for me, i weighed in right at 250. As you all may know, i made a run at getting to the 242’s but my body just didn’t want to keep going down and i didn’t want to cut water to get there. this was still 10lbs lighter than any meet i’ve done and 20lbs lighter than my average weight. As a result, i was a little worried about benching since we hadn’t maxed at all during this past cycle on any of our lifts. I went into the bench with a very conservative opener of 455. Actually i didn’t take my opener serious at all. I didn’t set up tight at all. i basically plopped down on the bench. Then things went downhill fast. On the liftoff Jowee forgot that he had to step away from the bench to allow the head judge to give me the calls. I was watching him follow the bar down and knew i probably wouldn’t get a press command because of it. The judge asked him to move and then gave me the press command. Unfortunately the whole thing through off my concentration and on the way up i lost the bar some but recovered. Unfortunately though, that got me redlighted for the lift. Needless to say i was a bit upset at jowee:) I knew he didn’t mean to do it so i did my best to shake it off but in the back of my mind i was worried that it had taken more out of me that it should have. I had to then decide to take my opener again or go up. I decided to move up to 470. I just sat around after that trying to wrap my head around moving forward. I was also worried that dropping all that weight would affect my bench numbers. I had planned to judge my second attempt on how the opener felt but i really had nothing to gage my next attempts against. Luckily I smoked 470 and then on my third attempt i moved to 480 and smoked that even better. i feel that i probably left at least 10lbs on the bench if not more but i was definitely happy with the outcome.
Going into deadlifts i was feeling really good after recovering from my botched bench opener. As all of you know, i just recently switched to conventional and really had no idea what i could pull with it. I decided to open with 600. I’ll put up the videos tomorrow but it felt like speed work weight. it really upped my confidence. i then went to 630. i smoked that as well. i then decided to go to 660 and smoked that as well. i definitely had 675 or more in me.
so… at a bodyweight of 250 i ended with a 1140 push/pull total.
We are planning another push/pull meet in about two months. my goals for that are a 500 bench and 700 pull for a 1200 total. i feel those are very reachable numbers now that i know where i’m at with my bench and dead at this bodyweight.
videos will be up tomorrow.
thanks for everyone’s support. it really means a lot.
Congratulations on a successful meet, meat!
here are the bench attempts
deadlift attempts-
Good job meet! GLad everything worked out in the end. That second bench and first DL looked like warmups…THrow some vids of your lifting partners as wel, esp of your new guy. I’m planning on doing my first ever meet in May/June and this stuff is inspirational. Keep at it big guy!
[quote]mlekava000 wrote:
Good job meet! GLad everything worked out in the end. That second bench and first DL looked like warmups…THrow some vids of your lifting partners as wel, esp of your new guy. I’m planning on doing my first ever meet in May/June and this stuff is inspirational. Keep at it big guy![/quote]
thanks hoss. you can go to my youtube site - rawelite and see all the vids of the meet.
go ahead and send in the form. get out there and compete. it will give a purpose to your training.
Meat/Joweeee: Huge lifts, brothers. Well done and congrats!
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Meat/Joweeee: Huge lifts, brothers. Well done and congrats![/quote]
thanks Steely. now it’s YOUR turn my brother.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Meat/Joweeee: Huge lifts, brothers. Well done and congrats![/quote]
thanks Steely. now it’s YOUR turn my brother.
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HA!
Tentatively going to be a B.O.F. myself in May.
Got some Q’s-- plz check out your “Ask Meat” thread in the Old Folks Forum
back to the gym and back to 5/3/1
overhead press’n
strict standing military press
warmup
ox10
95x10
135x10
working sets
65%- 195x5
75%- 225x5
85%- 255x7+ 2 reps. actually had a couple more but ran out of air.
pendley rows
135x6
185x6
225x6
275x6
295x6
seated miltary dumbell press
70’s x 6
100’s x 6
120’s x 6
dumbell cleans
some x some
face pulls
some x some
good night. skwatt’s on friday.
Hi MM,
I’ve sent you a PM. Appreciate it if you could shoot me a reply.
skwatt night. i’ve decided to stick to cambered bar squats as my main movement on squat day. these things tear up the lower back and hams. i used my last heavy set (600) before the comp. to take my percentages off of. i’m also pausing my sets to get as close to the intial pull on a dead.
warmup
0x10
190x4
280x3
working sets
65%- 390x5
75%-460x5
85%-510x5
leg press
some x 40,50,60
i got a PM asking me how i wrap my knees for squats. here’s how i do it.
bench night- working on our arch on the bench. we are arching over a small foam roller. damn it’s uncomfortable and shows just how small my arch is.
bench touch and go
warmup
0x10
135x5
185x5
225x5
275x5
working sets
65%- 315x5
75%- 360x5
85%- 405 x 8 + 3reps
475x1
495x2- can’t believe how easy this felt. this was the easiest i’ve ever benched this weight.
dumbell incline presses
50’s x 8
120’s x 8
145’s x 8
close grip foam press
225x10
315x10
405x4- triceps fried at this point.
great session and felt strong as shit. i wish they all were like this.
Just AMAZING! nothing else to say
I love tuning into this thread. I don’t post much but I’m often lurking and this is one of the first threads I come to when I log on. You are such a beast but seem very grounded and helpful with it. If I can be half as strong as you I’ll be happy (well maybe 2/3 as strong).
I can’t recall if this question has already been asked… I understand you were a decent bodybuilder in your youth, have you done with bodybuilding for good?
[quote]bwhitwell wrote:
Just AMAZING! nothing else to say[/quote]
thanks hoss. it was a great session.
