Sorry for lack of updates if anybody still reads this.
Shitty meet overall, but happy with deadlift PR.
Last 2 weeks were 6 hours of sleep a night with no weekends. I think I had last Sunday for R&R but it wasn’t enough. Work and the end of semester at school took its toll. There’s a lot of extra stressful bullshit going on at work as well.
Moved all my openers down to compensate. Went 380 410 but missed 430 on squat. Tried a big spoonful of nose tork on the third attempt and all it did was burn my nose and left my eyes watering as I stumbled back to the warmup room after the miss.
Went 300 then missed 320 twice on bench. This was a heartbreaker, as I expected a PR here. Had to bench flat footed which I am not used to and couldn’t get any leg drive out of the bottom. I managed to get it off my chest, but not with enough speed to push through the sticking point. This will be easily remedied.
Deadlifts I finally had my head in the game. Opened light at 490, then went 530, 555. I tried nose tork again here but just a whiff instead of a noseful and by this time I had built up the tolerance. (Some of the guys from my gym use it when they train, and pretty much have to snort the shit at the meet to get the desired effect. My eyes were watering just having the bottle open). This was a deadlift conventional PR by 35 pounds. I believe there was more in the tank judging by the ease of the third pull, but we will have to wait for another day to find out. A lot of people at this meet pulled fast third attempts.
I showed up at the meet at 8 AM and it didn’t let until until after 10 PM. It was a long day and I was beat by the time it got to deadlifts which was about 6 or 7 PM. I managed to get tuned in mentally and figured out it really is a lot mental. This hurt me on bench a ton as I pretty much gave up mentally before it even started.
I got a trophy, but everyone does, but I’m pretty happy with how it went and I saved it with the deadlift, as a lot of guys cannot deadlift at all and it probably my strongest lift at this point. Came in second from my gym accounting for coefficient, which is good enough for now.
Wasn’t worried about making weight but I weighed in at 181.5 making 181 .2 lbs. I was going to weigh in last night and knew I would be heavy so I decided to wait until morning and let the chips fall where they may.
That’s all I have for now. I wasn’t 100% focused on this meet. I still trained but did not do the other stuff that is as important as eat right and get good rest. At this point, I’m happy I’m still alive and happy given the crap I’ve been dealing with these past months or so.
