Glad to join this thread.
I’ve been powerlifting for about 1.5 years. Last summer, I did my first meet:
USAPL/RAW
Bodyweight: 145 pounds
Squat: 275
Bench: 242
Dead: 335
A year later, I’m pushing 165, and hoping to enter again. Current raw gym lifts are 315x3 squat, 265x 2 bench, but I haven’t maxed my dead in 4 months.
[quote]JLD2k3 wrote:
BA, When’s your meet?[/quote]
July 9-10.
Haven’t trained the past four days, was on my senior trip to the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Gotta get back at it.
Competed today in Orange County NY in a USAPL meet in the 132 class, totaled a disappointing 797 but you live and you learn I guess.
Meet Recap: I weighed in today at a very light 126.6 which had me feeling sort of drained. There were no national judges at the meet so I wasn’t able to attempt the American Record deadlift. I did have the honor of competing against current USAPL national champion and former IPF junior world champion Mike Kuhns. Finished with a 265 squat (10 pound meet PR), 175 bench (32 pound meet PR) and unfortunately only completed my opening attempt deadlift of 357 pounds. I pulled 385 off the floor so quick that the weight surprised me and I fell over backwards. 407 didnt budge off the floor after that. Today was a humbling but good experience.
should have bench videos up tomorrow
Next stop, USAPL raw nationals
A bit off topic here, but I’d like to share that I am officially done with high school as of today.
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
A bit off topic here, but I’d like to share that I am officially done with high school as of today.[/quote]
congrats!
[quote]Jokerz wrote:
Squats have been stalled for the past 2 5/3/1 cycles, even after dropping the weight. I think I’m going to do a cycle with box squats and focus on strengthening my lower back, hams and glutes, and see if that helps. Today my squat turned into a good morning. [/quote]
I’m just curious. Why not use box squats as assistance?
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
A bit off topic here, but I’d like to share that I am officially done with high school as of today.[/quote]
Nice. Whats the plan now?
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
A bit off topic here, but I’d like to share that I am officially done with high school as of today.[/quote]
Nice. Whats the plan now?[/quote]
DL 500.
Then what?
[quote]JLD2k3 wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
A bit off topic here, but I’d like to share that I am officially done with high school as of today.[/quote]
Nice. Whats the plan now?[/quote]
DL 500.
Then what?[/quote]
DL 600, obviously!
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Jokerz wrote:
Squats have been stalled for the past 2 5/3/1 cycles, even after dropping the weight. I think I’m going to do a cycle with box squats and focus on strengthening my lower back, hams and glutes, and see if that helps. Today my squat turned into a good morning. [/quote]
I’m just curious. Why not use box squats as assistance? [/quote]
I was thinking of doing box squats with the 531 reps and then regular squats at a higher rep range for the assistance. Do you think it would be better to switch them? Ie, box squats as the assistance.
[quote]Jokerz wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Jokerz wrote:
Squats have been stalled for the past 2 5/3/1 cycles, even after dropping the weight. I think I’m going to do a cycle with box squats and focus on strengthening my lower back, hams and glutes, and see if that helps. Today my squat turned into a good morning. [/quote]
I’m just curious. Why not use box squats as assistance? [/quote]
I was thinking of doing box squats with the 531 reps and then regular squats at a higher rep range for the assistance. Do you think it would be better to switch them? Ie, box squats as the assistance.
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I made some good gains with box squats for speed a la Westside as assistance on 531.
[quote]Jokerz wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Jokerz wrote:
Squats have been stalled for the past 2 5/3/1 cycles, even after dropping the weight. I think I’m going to do a cycle with box squats and focus on strengthening my lower back, hams and glutes, and see if that helps. Today my squat turned into a good morning. [/quote]
I’m just curious. Why not use box squats as assistance? [/quote]
I was thinking of doing box squats with the 531 reps and then regular squats at a higher rep range for the assistance. Do you think it would be better to switch them? Ie, box squats as the assistance.
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I really have no idea, I was just thinking of doing the smallest changes as possible in the program to produce results. I know in the new e-book, Wendler says raw squatters shouldn’t use box squats for the 5/3/1 unless free squats were tearing your knees up.
Hmm, I’ll stick with it as it is and do box squats for assistance and see what happens.
My edit didn’t go through. More accurately, he says box squats are fine for the 5/3/1 sets. His biggest caveat with box squats for narrow gear or raw squatters from what I understood is it made the timing and bounce out of the hole feel ‘alien’. Since you would still be doing free squats though, I don’t think that would be an issue.
A pinched nerve affecting my left shoulder is really starting to piss me off. I basically have no practical use of my left arm.
Any suggestions for training around this?
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
A pinched nerve affecting my left shoulder is really starting to piss me off. I basically have no practical use of my left arm.
Any suggestions for training around this?[/quote]
Is it from squats? How did you do it?
Must have slept on it wrong Monday night. I woke up with a searing pain in the shoulder and it hasn’t subsided much since. The sensations going down my arm have gone down a bit, but I’m thinking I’m going to have to take at least this entire week off, unless I can figure something out.
I could probably deadlift, except that loading the weight on the bar would be just about impossible.
PR 225x5 on bench! about time never gone over 3 with 225@144
should have went for a rm squat pr 405x3 went up easy and thats as many as i have ever gotten with that weight
[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
Best squat day I’ve ever had, 315x9 with sleeves and belt. BW around 195ish slowly going down right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymwWeBwPdE[/quote]
Badass depth…good job!
@ ~175 lbs (5’10.5")
bench - 275
squat - 365 x 3
deadlift - 495
after losing like 10-15 lbs and not lifting as frequently (deployment in the pacific) im trying to get back to where i was. currently weighing 189 lbs now, alot of water weight though. waiting til i get to about 200 lbs before i max again. deployment kinda screwed me, lost alot of strength :\ also, i only lift raw (aside from belt for squats/deads)