Tuesday February 1
Bench
bar
65-5
95-3x3
105-2x2
115-2
105-2x5
Squat - light
155-5x3
DB Bench
42-9,6,4,7,6
Band pull through
green band-3x20
Planks - 2x90 seconds
decline sit ups
I’m really still sucking wind from the meet. Bench was tough and the weight was supposed to be light for me. The garage was cold. We’re amping up for the big storm. We’ll see if it actually gets here.
awesome work Ms. O_b_s
loved the wardrobe changes,
really nice work Elite is just around the corner.
Morning O
Snap was asking me if we are lifting in the same federation - you lift in CPU right?
Do we have that much of a choice anyways?
just wondering
Have a nice day!
N
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Morning O
Snap was asking me if we are lifting in the same federation - you lift in CPU right?
Do we have that much of a choice anyways?
just wondering
Have a nice day!
N[/quote]
Yes, I’m CPU. There is also CPO which is multi ply and raw. A couple of my friends lift in that fed but the CPU is bigger at the moment and has more meets. I don’t think we have the population to support a ton of different feds.
You’re lifting in Kasey’s meet right?
Friday February 4
Squat - raw
bar-10
115-5
155-3
185-2
205-5x3
bench - light
bar-10
95-2x11
bb row
135-10,8,5
DB OH Press
25-12,10, 9
I’m still really struggling with recovery. My squats tonight were tough, ugly, grinding and not much deeper than parallel.
I think I’ve mentioned this before but every meet I do it’s harder to recover. I feel like I’ve been knocked for a six for a couple of weeks afterwards and it’s really tough to get back into the gym.
I don’t think it’s the actual lifting that is knocking me out because it’s all stuff I’ve trained many times and much harder. I think it’s the adrenaline we have to manufacture to get out on the platform. Keeping that running for hours on end for a meet drains me more and more. I’d post a question in the powerlifting section but I’m likely to get retarded replies given the number of people that actually compete.
If anyone here has any advice or experienced the same thing as they age, I’d appreciate the input. BB and I were talking about it tonight and it may just be that it’ll pass when it passes.
I’ve never been a powerlifter, but I’ve competed at stuff.
Age is a factor, because the older you get, the longer it takes to recover from anything, that’s sort of a no-brainer given.
But I think the key factor is that as you get better at something, you are making greater demands on your “system” when you compete, i.e. put it all out there. I know you mentioned that if the weight classes had not shifted on you, you would’ve gotten elite classsification in your last meet. Ergo, that is the most effort you’ve demanded from your system (not just body, everything) ever; so, it only makes sense that this is the hardest meet you’ve ever had to recover from.
I think I heard it mentioned that Olympic medalist-type athletes say it takes them months before they can peak enough to compete again.
O: Awhile back you were talking about fatigue and general malaise. Did you ever get a full physical? Bloodwork, thyroid, all that shit?
I experience this phenomenon after a meet but for only a few days. That being said, I’m not an elite lifter.
I wonder if it could be hormonal. I suffer in my own way. Tears for no reason, usually while I’m driving in my car by myself. Always feel so silly when there’s no real root cause.
Maybe Punnyguy’s onto something.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
O: Awhile back you were talking about fatigue and general malaise. Did you ever get a full physical? Bloodwork, thyroid, all that shit?
I experience this phenomenon after a meet but for only a few days. That being said, I’m not an elite lifter.
I wonder if it could be hormonal. I suffer in my own way. Tears for no reason, usually while I’m driving in my car by myself. Always feel so silly when there’s no real root cause.
Maybe Punnyguy’s onto something.[/quote]
I did end up getting blood work and what not done. My doctor said that the likely cause was chronic exhaustion. I wasn’t sleeping properly and hadn’t been for years. I thought I was sleeping but according to BB I talked all night long and thrashed around. I also got restless legs when I was tired and my doctor beleives that the constant movement at night was from the restless legs. She prescribed a super low dose of clonazepam which is an anti anxiety but is also used as an anti convulsant and to treat restless legs. I started taking that in October and it has worked really well. I take one before bed and sleep like a rock. I’ve had so much more energy and can actually think like a person again. It has been amazingly wonderful to remember that I’m not a short bus kid.
I still have that now. We go out walking and do a ton of stuff. I’m affected in the gym. I’m weaker which is normal after a meet but it’s slow coming back. Also my joints feel like someone kicked the crap out of them.
As for being an elite lifter. I’m not. I’m decent but the CPU/IPF designations are arbitrary and ultimately don’t really mean anything. For sure I’m getting better though. For a reality check, I looked at the RAW Unity results and saw that Ellen Stein got the same total as me at the same weight, raw. She’s in her 50’s I believe. Now she’s an elite and awesome lifter. So there’s a bit of hero worship. Sue me.
O, I don’t compete and certainly don’t pull/push/squat big weights. But recovery is a huge issue for me just in an ordinary week, much less a comp situation.
It doesn’t surprise me one bit that a meet can put you under-par in the gym for weeks thereafter. What is amazing to me is your ability to get after the big weights as often as you do. Clearly you’ve got recovery figured out better than I.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Friday February 4
Squat - raw
bar-10
115-5
155-3
185-2
205-5x3
bench - light
bar-10
95-2x11
bb row
135-10,8,5
DB OH Press
25-12,10, 9
I’m still really struggling with recovery. My squats tonight were tough, ugly, grinding and not much deeper than parallel.
I think I’ve mentioned this before but every meet I do it’s harder to recover. I feel like I’ve been knocked for a six for a couple of weeks afterwards and it’s really tough to get back into the gym.
I don’t think it’s the actual lifting that is knocking me out because it’s all stuff I’ve trained many times and much harder. I think it’s the adrenaline we have to manufacture to get out on the platform. Keeping that running for hours on end for a meet drains me more and more. I’d post a question in the powerlifting section but I’m likely to get retarded replies given the number of people that actually compete.
If anyone here has any advice or experienced the same thing as they age, I’d appreciate the input. BB and I were talking about it tonight and it may just be that it’ll pass when it passes. [/quote]
I train in a very different style than you, emphasize volume with lower intensity but I’ll type this just in case it is helpful.
After a meet, I’ll take 6 days off before I squat, start with 3 sec. pause olympic squats at 4x4@60%, 5 days later I’ll do 4x4@65% with 2 sec. pauses. I’ll do some deadlift accessory exercises until 13 days after the meet when I’ll deadlift 4x3@70%. By 18 days after the meet I am back to doing Sheiko blocks, squatting 5x5@70%, and 2 days later deadlifting 5x3@70%. Bench doesn’t require much of a break. This is pretty conservative, but it gives my CNS and my body a little bit of a break which I think is important for longevity.
[quote]mrodock wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Friday February 4
Squat - raw
bar-10
115-5
155-3
185-2
205-5x3
bench - light
bar-10
95-2x11
bb row
135-10,8,5
DB OH Press
25-12,10, 9
I’m still really struggling with recovery. My squats tonight were tough, ugly, grinding and not much deeper than parallel.
I think I’ve mentioned this before but every meet I do it’s harder to recover. I feel like I’ve been knocked for a six for a couple of weeks afterwards and it’s really tough to get back into the gym.
I don’t think it’s the actual lifting that is knocking me out because it’s all stuff I’ve trained many times and much harder. I think it’s the adrenaline we have to manufacture to get out on the platform. Keeping that running for hours on end for a meet drains me more and more. I’d post a question in the powerlifting section but I’m likely to get retarded replies given the number of people that actually compete.
If anyone here has any advice or experienced the same thing as they age, I’d appreciate the input. BB and I were talking about it tonight and it may just be that it’ll pass when it passes. [/quote]
I train in a very different style than you, emphasize volume with lower intensity but I’ll type this just in case it is helpful.
After a meet, I’ll take 6 days off before I squat, start with 3 sec. pause olympic squats at 4x4@60%, 5 days later I’ll do 4x4@65% with 2 sec. pauses. I’ll do some deadlift accessory exercises until 13 days after the meet when I’ll deadlift 4x3@70%. By 18 days after the meet I am back to doing Sheiko blocks, squatting 5x5@70%, and 2 days later deadlifting 5x3@70%. Bench doesn’t require much of a break. This is pretty conservative, but it gives my CNS and my body a little bit of a break which I think is important for longevity.[/quote]
That sounds like a very well thought out plan. I may crib it for after my next meet. Generally I take a week off after a meet and go raw for a couple of weeks which translates to lighter loads.
I ended up digging through our supplement pharmacy to see what I could find for recovery. We have Surge but it is the shitty fruit flavoured stuff.
Today I joined a commercial gym. It’s the same gym I went to a couple of months ago that I hated. The reason is that my 16 year old daughter said she wanted to join a gym. I picked the one that has a branch near my house and near her dads place. We’ve joined for 3 months. If her interest sustains, we’ll join for longer. For the time being, however, 3 months is a good test.
We went in together today and she mostly did elliptical and machine stuff while I deadlifted. Sadly, I couldn’t explain many of the machines. She has an orientation on Tuesday so we’ll go together again and I’ll bench while she learns what she wants to learn. I’ll probably go with her for a while until she’s comfortable enough to go by herself.
Sunday February 6
Deadlift
135-5
185-3
225-3
245-3 conventional/belt
245-3 sumo/belt
255-2x3 sumo/belt
Snatch grip deads
135-10
155-10
175-10
195-6
I had planned to do more but my grip gave out
Dips
bw-7, 10, 9
DB tricep extensions
35-3x10
Hanging leg raises
3x10
I tried to talk Olivia into deadlifting but she wasn’t into it at all. I’ll let her do her thing and I’ll do mine. Nothing sucks the fun out of something like having a parent try to get you to do their thing. I’d love if she started to take an interest but for the time being, this will do.
On the bright side, they got a new rack at the gym and it’s really nice.
Good pulling, and better parenting. You’re a good mom.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Nothing sucks the fun out of something like having a parent try to get you to do their thing. I’d love if she started to take an interest but for the time being, this will do.
[/quote]
My kids are a little young (12 and 10), but I’d love it if they’d get into lifting. Of course, they’re both long and lean and not really built for powerlifting. Hmmm. You’ve got two kids, right O?
catching up on your log, first-congrats on a great meet! Just to echo what everyone else had mentioned, to come back after that 2nd squat attempt and nail it like that took some mental stability! Kudos!!
You’re the 2nd person I’ve seen where it looked like being shot out of a cannon, she was multiply but do you think you squatted down and not back far enough and the knee buckled? So glad no perm damage done.
Recovery, granted I’m not new to powerlifting, but wearing gear, I am. I have found that gear and max attempts take way more out of you than raw lifting. Yes, I’m an old folk (hitting 49 this year). I haven’t done a full PL meet in gear yet (March '11) but I’m thinking I’m taking a week off if I’m still alive.
[quote]lil power wrote:
catching up on your log, first-congrats on a great meet! Just to echo what everyone else had mentioned, to come back after that 2nd squat attempt and nail it like that took some mental stability! Kudos!!
You’re the 2nd person I’ve seen where it looked like being shot out of a cannon, she was multiply but do you think you squatted down and not back far enough and the knee buckled? So glad no perm damage done.
Recovery, granted I’m not new to powerlifting, but wearing gear, I am. I have found that gear and max attempts take way more out of you than raw lifting. Yes, I’m an old folk (hitting 49 this year). I haven’t done a full PL meet in gear yet (March '11) but I’m thinking I’m taking a week off if I’m still alive.
[/quote]
I’m not totally sure what happened with the squat but I had a cold so my balance wasn’t great.
Since the meet however, my squat has gotten weaker. I think I’ve got an issue with my back. I’ve had a bulging disc in my lower back that got sorted out last year. I’m visiting my chiro/ART guy on Tuesday and hopefully he’ll get me sorted out again. There’s no reason my squat should be tanking. Training, diet and lifestyle are the same.
It really became apparent on Tuesday when I was front squatting and 135 was really difficult. I could barely stay upright. That isn’t a heavy weight for me so there’s something going on that’s weakening my back.
I’m not going to bore anyone with my last couple days of training. It’s been frustrating.
The Canadian affiliate of the IPF is the CPU and for a long time they’ve had top 100 lifter lists for the men. There haven’t been any for the women. Monday night, I totally geeked out and dumped the entire contents of the female lifters database into excel and created one myself. I did it based on how I think the mens was arrived at. Basically, I took the highest wilks for each lifter and ranked them highest to lowest deleting the lower wilks for each lifter. There was a lot of massaging and picking through multiple spellings of lifters names to ensure I had the highest wilks for each person and no one was missed.
I emailed it to the fellow that runs the site and he posted it today. For those interested in arcane Canadian female powerlifting history, it’s here: http://www.powerlifting.ca/rankings/women_feb11.pdf
The earliest entries are from 1983.
That’s a lot of work you did there. I love how it’s ordered by wilks.
I see your name on there! Looking good!
Sorry to hear about your lifting frustration as of late. I hope this phase passes soon and you’re back to your normal beastly self.
that is allot of typing ms_O_b_s
get your back taken care of, my neck is now getting better’ by not getting worse.
new chiro.
I agree with Joe your a good mom.
That looks like it took a lot of work. Its about time the women had a list too I’d imagine.