Yikes. Thanks for the heads up! I have a very good idea of my openers for squat and bench but deadlifts are probably going to be an early morning audible
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Good luck tomorrow
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I’ll be updating this thread as I go! I’ll be all alone there but hopefully I can manage to get a few vids
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About to head over to the meet. Feeling solid today. Hamstrings are somehow still sore from the reverse hypers but should disappear with the adrenaline.
Planned openers are:
S- 167.5
B - 117.5
D - 220
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Weighed in at 91.8kg. phew
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Go smash it Mate…
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Fakin murdered squats brahs
3/3 - 3 whites a piece
167.5
185
200
Moving on to bench
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Alright guys, I’m out! I thought I could keep updating after squats but it was surprising how fast the meet moved considering the number of lifters. Anyways, here’s what happened today (including a lot of ranting).
Weighed in at 91.8kg, which was a major relief considering I was measuring in at 95+ in my campus gym. Downed two gatorades before the first squat attempt.
Squat 1 - 167.5kg - Judge seemed to hold me there for a solid 5 seconds after the unrack. I was just kind of staring at him like “wtf brah??” with the weight on my back. My best guess is that he didn’t trust that I had the bar under control, and I was probably a little shaky from the adrenaline. Anyways, smoked the weight so hard that the bar popped off my back. 3 whites
Squat 2 - 185kg - Big time PR, I’ve never squatted over 400lbs in my life, but as I already kind of expected it came up easy. I felt like I was stretching for 200kg but it was a yolo moment. Judge didn’t wait nearly as long this time. 3 whites.
Squat 3 - 200kg - Buried it and semi-grinded it up. Definitely wasn’t as hard as I was expecting but I don’t think I had too much in the tank on the other hand. 3 whites.
Bench 1 - 117.5kg - Ever since I messed up my shoulder doing a stupid 1rm on my own, my bench has felt weak. Warmups felt ok at best, I felt stronger in the gym. This was fairly easy, 3 whites.
Bench 2 - 130kg - Grinded and nearly jumped the re-rack command. 2 whites. Got lucky on that one tbh.
Bench 3 - 135kg - Failed halfway up, probably needed another inch or two to go to lockout, I’m weak off the chest. 3 reds.
Deadlift 1 - 220kg - Made the early morning call to move from 227.5 to 220 since I had no idea how quick warmups were going to be. During warmups the weight was flying off the floor. I’ve never felt stronger on pulls. 220kg came up like nothing. 3 whites.
Deadlift 2 - 237.5kg - This is where shit started to suck. The lift itself was great, exploded up and it looked the same as the 220kg. 3 whites. Immediately after the lift I called for 252.5kg for an all-time pr. After that I realized my back was acting up, giving me pain near the mid region. It just messed with my mindset and I was definitely intimidated by the weight at this point.
Deadlift 3 - 252.5kg - Did my best to block out the pain in my back as I made my way to the platform. Came up fast off the floor and locked out with a bit of grinding. 3 whites, and an all-time pr for me. I put the bar down and immediately decided that I wasn’t doing any pulling for the next 3 weeks. The bar also tore through like 4 layers of skin in my finger, so that’s also fun.
Ended up with a 582.5kg/1285lb total, and I can safely say I gave it everything I had today. Came 6th out of 12 lifters in the 93kg class. I need that 1400lb total brahs.
One thing that really struck me was how rare a 1600+ total really is. You see all of these instagram freaks and after awhile you get desensitized as to how heavy that really is. You see a guy squatting 700 on youtube and it’s like damn that’s strong. Being there in person to see it is a whole other beast. These guys are MASSIVE in person, make no mistake. It was a humbling experience, but an amazing one. I had the pleasure of meeting some great people and we cheered each other on throughout the meet. I’ll be doing another competition next year, but right now my body is aching, and I need to fix things up.
I need to drop the ego and start doing lighter assistance exercises and straight back deadlifts instead of continuously pulling heavy all the time. I’m not going to last long in this sport if I don’t change that. I’ll probably always pull rounded in comp, but training that way year round is a surefire way to back pain in my opinion. I think glute and hamstring weakness also played a huge part in that. Jesus my hamstrings are still sore from the couple sets of reverse hypers on Thursday.
Another thing is that my bench sucks. Everything about it sucks. I look like a gym bro lying flat on the bench, zero tension before the lift, nothing. I need to practice arching because when I see other guys who have mastered the art of it, the ROM is cut tremendously. This isn’t one of those stupid “I could bench 500 if I arched like that”, but let me say I can see the benefits of cutting that much off of your bench ROM.
Sorry, tldr, went 8/9 with a 582.5kg/1285lb total. Need that 1400 total!
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Congrats dude!! That really is awesome!
Couple questions. How was it using comp plates and bars? Any difference from regular stuff?
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Thanks man! The bars seemed less stiff than the ones I train with at my gym, but other than that I would say that the weights felt more or less the same. Maybe a more experienced lifter would feel otherwise.
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Congrats on that huge PR man, a 200kg squat is no joke.
on to 600! lol
I can second this from my last meet. We had just under 100 lifters and only 3 men totaled more than 1600.
Dude, I was in this same boat about 9 months ago. Now all i do is submax work and I was so skeptical of being able to put out on the platform on game day but i was very surprised at how strong and explosive i felt… Theres an article somewhere about how Sam Byrd broke the all time squat record using only like 70% or less than his max for working sets.
By the way, nice job.
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Thanks for the kind words brother. I’m excited to see what you put up at your next meet!
I think this is exactly what I need to do, pull around 70% for lots of explosive doubles and triples with good form, and then just leave it all on the platform. I think this is exactly what I’m going to do for deads at the very least. Pulling once every week or two, just to maintain explosiveness while my squat catches up. I think my straight back deadlift is considerably lower than my round back deadlift so I I don’t think it’s as light as it seems initially.
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Definitely worth experimenting with. The lower back is easy to fatigue. From my experience bringing squats up brings your deadlift up even with low deadlift frequency.
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Hey Man impressive stuff.
Congratulations big PR’s on the platform that’s just plain awesome. Quality.
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Thanks @mortdk!
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New log below:
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