Good luck Saturday! Sounds like a generally awesome day.
Thanks guys, I appreciate the support. I’m really looking forward to doing this meet in two days (gasp!) I think I’m actually going to enjoy the meet rather than let my nerves get the best of me this time.
Have fun brah!
Day of the gods! Best. Life.
[quote]detazathoth wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
hey man, is there a way to load the ab wheel exercise or make it a little harder?[/quote]
Thanks and all the best in the meet
Meet Report
I compete at the 2012 USAPL New England Open Powerlifting Championships
I went
515 Squat
365 Bench
615 Deadlift
A lot less than I was hoping for, but I won the overall at the competition in my weight class (220), Best Junior, Open, and Overall Male lifter at the meet. There were roughly about 40 male competitors, so it was competitive regardless of weight class for the overall.
I wanted to go
550 Squat
405 Bench
650 Deadlift
and I felt that I had the strength for those lifts, however I think with the Block Set Up that I have, I miss timed my peak. Although the peaking cycle works for all the Powerlifters I train, I feel because I’ve been using it the longest, I think my body has accommodated to it, so the next training cycle will have been tweaked to fix that.
Although I’m very dissappointed in myself that I didn’t do nearly as well as I wanted, I like to put it in this perspective: That even at my weakest, I’m still one the strongest Raw lifters in New England, and that’s a cool feeling to have. I know that I have nothing, but to improve my total from here, and I’m already about 10 weeks out from Nationals. I appreciated the win, and I hope that this is the first step towards getting a National Title.
G.P.P. Work
Dynamic Warm Up
Prehab/Rehab:
External Rotation work:
3x12
TKEâ??s: 3 sets of 10
Energy Systems:
Prowler Pushes - 4 sets (45s rests)
Neglected Muscle Groups:
Rolling Tricep Extensions: 3x8 reps
Oblique Work: 3x10
Congrats on the meet! Well done!
Nice work man, still some really good numbers. Are you moving up to 220s now or did you just not bother to make 198s for this meet?
Solid performance. Consider that the best lifters in the world only have about 2 or 3 meets in their entire careers where everything goes just right. At least that’s what I tell myself, LOL.
You want to save your best for Nationals anyhow. No sense in having a lights-out performance now when the big dance is only 2.5 months away.
More importantly, how did the guitar lesson go?
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Congrats on the meet! Well done![/quote]
Coming from a guy that doesn’t enjoy my trollin’ on the other forums, that means a lot. I appreciate it a lot man :D!
[quote]pbclax1 wrote:
Nice work man, still some really good numbers. Are you moving up to 220s now or did you just not bother to make 198s for this meet?[/quote]
I don’t really cut weight, although I was 207lbs that day and I’m usually around 212-215lbs most of the time.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Solid performance. Consider that the best lifters in the world only have about 2 or 3 meets in their entire careers where everything goes just right. At least that’s what I tell myself, LOL.
You want to save your best for Nationals anyhow. No sense in having a lights-out performance now when the big dance is only 2.5 months away.
More importantly, how did the guitar lesson go?[/quote]
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more it makes me feel a little bit better that I laid the fail here on the regional level instead on the national stage, LOL.
I still plan on taking this week off from any formal training. I’ll go to the gym Wednesday and Friday to get some work, but no real heavy barbell work as the following Monday begins another Accumulation Block.
As for the guitar lesson, I enjoy getting lessons from Tosin because he goes over every single guitar technique and the harmon theory behind what he does. So he’d breakdown solos, rhythms, and leads from nearly each song on both albums, and show me note for note and what he does with the pick or his fingers at the same time, and why he choses certain voicings on the 8 string. Tosin also wrote out tabs and sheet music for On Impulse and Weightless for me at the end of the lesson. Tosin is quite the nice guy as well, very laid back, I wouldn’t say humble, but he has a quite confidence in his technical prowess, but his ego isn’t overbearing.
The cool thing for me about that show as well was that I got to hangout and have dinner with the lead singer of Thrice, Dustin Kensrue, for about 2 hours after the show. We had quite the theological discussion as well, without getting in my personal beliefs, it was a good discussion and I got a lot out of it. Most importantly, I met two of musical heros, one guitar wise, and one lyrical wise. It was pretty good night, to an awesome morning of competing.
BOSS
the log and motivation are greatly appreciated
Nice work at the meet! Please don’t drop to the 198 class. I have dreams of setting records too 
I used to be a big fan of Thrice. I played Vheissu way too many times lol. I never really got into the stuff they released after, though. Maybe I should give it a chance.
[quote]Phyrgian wrote:
BOSS
the log and motivation are greatly appreciated[/quote]
Thanks or reading, it’s you guys that I kept this log up for. I wouldn’t post anything online if I wasn’t giving back to the community.
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
Nice work at the meet! Please don’t drop to the 198 class. I have dreams of setting records too
I used to be a big fan of Thrice. I played Vheissu way too many times lol. I never really got into the stuff they released after, though. Maybe I should give it a chance.[/quote]
Hahaha, we’ll see what I’m walking in at come August. I’m goin to add extra workouts in between sessions and steady state cardio to my main training now. I’m going all in for this next training cycle because Im more motivated now than ever to be best.
Awesome job on the meet! I’m guessing you’re shooting for even bigger number than you hoped for come nationals.
Lol ashy you are already fucked. Ben rice is starting usapl and is 198 competition weight.
[quote]AquaCruzer wrote:
Awesome job on the meet! I’m guessing you’re shooting for even bigger number than you hoped for come nationals.[/quote]
Absolutely, I want the my personal best raw total to date at this meet.
I want as bad as I want to breathe.